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Allow Us To Explain

Eggs & Sperm Take On Cute Personalities In This Animation Helping You Understand Plan B

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:30 pm, December 4th, 2012

I’ll be honest, it’s been a while since I sat in a science class and my brain has refused to retain most of what I learned when I did. Though mostly, I don’t care how things like the pill or Plan B work, just that they do work. But in case you’re curious (or forgot), here’s a great animation from AsapSCIENCE showing you what goes down in your body.

(via The High Definite)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Blizzard Offers In Game Kittens in Hurricane Relief Promotion

by Susana Polo | 5:08 pm, November 8th, 2012

Shortly after Blizzard took the plunge and began offering exclusive in-game pets to World of Warcraft players for real money they started offering them to benefit charity. The Cinder Kitten above goes for $10, and all of those dollars will go to the Red Cross’ Sandy efforts. (Wow Insider)

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A Series of Fallopian Tubes

“Would You Like A Pregnancy Test With That Beer,” Says One Minnesota Bar

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:54 pm, September 16th, 2012

Upon hearing there’s a bar that offers pregnancy tests in the bathroom, you might think they’re trying to make some really terrible joke about taking someone home after a few beers and having unprotected sex. In actuality, they’re concerned with women who had sex before stepping into their establishment. That’s right. One Minnesota bar wants to prevent you from drinking while you’re pregnant. Thanks for the concern, I guess?

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The Future Is Now!

Contraceptive Gel For Men May Be On The Horizon

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:03 am, June 26th, 2012

Wouldn’t it be absolutely wonderful if the burden of using the majority of contraceptive options didn’t fall almost totally upon women? Thanks to an innovative birth control method involving a gel that is applied directly onto men’s skin, reliable male contraceptives may not be a pipe dream any longer.

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she blinded me with science

So It Turns Out We Weren’t Really Sure How The Morning After Pill Works

by Susana Polo | 2:41 pm, June 6th, 2012

Whenever amendments, resolutions, and other such proposed laws attempt to strictly include fertilized ova as persons in attempts to make abortion illegal, it is pointed out, and rightfully so, that not only does medically defined pregnancy not begin until that fertilized ova travels down its Fallopian tube and implants in the wall of the uterus, that the majority of birth control methods prevent implantation, rather than fertilization. Meaning, that such personhood amendments would actually outlaw an overwhelmingly large number of birth control options for women. Plan B, and other “morning-after” pills, however, usually get left out of those discussions, since it’s generally understood and even written on the box that they flat out prevent the implantation of fertilized ova instead of preventing fertilization.

But as the New York Times recently looked into, scientific studies show that morning after pills don’t work that way, and the FDA was straight-up labeling the boxes wrong.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Ladies of Science Fiction and Fantasy Poker Game

by Susana Polo | 5:03 pm, March 28th, 2012

Rocketpig67 put this lovely piece together. Personally, I think I love the Starbuck best. (DC Women Kicking Ass)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Batman Whistling While He Works

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:32 pm, March 10th, 2012

A delightful one-hour drawing by Dustin Harbin titled Off to Bat-Work. (via Never Lose Hope) Check out what else we saw today! 

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A Series of Fallopian Tubes

Sandra Fluke Responds to Being Called “Slut” by Rush Limbaugh, Gets Call From President Obama

by Jamie Frevele | 12:55 pm, March 3rd, 2012

The day after hilarious radio personality Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” who should make videos of herself having sex if she wants access to birth control pills (to show everyone she’s using them, you see), Fluke has issued a response, she received a phone call from the President, and sponsors have started dropping their ads from Limbaugh’s show. Sorry guys, we couldn’t let this one go. But let’s look at the support Fluke has been receiving since this infuriating thing happened. (Don’t worry, there is lots of support.)

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A Series of Fallopian Tubes

Let These Middle-Aged Men Explain Why They’re Better at Discussing Women’s Health [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:43 pm, February 27th, 2012

Well, it’s about time they came forward and explained themselves! Courtesy of Funny or Die and a delightful group of actors (Nick Offerman, Tim Meadows, Judd Nelson, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise, Corey Stoll, and Brian Flaherty) those poor, misrepresented men finally get the opportunity to explain exactly why they are better at talking about women’s health issues than women are. Full disclosure, I could only watch about 28 seconds because I started to have my period. I always have that!

(via Pajiba)

Previously in Women’s Health

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Gloriously Geeky Equality

by Jamie Frevele | 4:59 pm, February 23rd, 2012

This piece, worn by Eric, an IT director, is an all-encompassing celebration of pride, equality, and tolerance — displayed in the nerdiest maner possible: binary. That portion reads as follows: “All men and women are created equal.” (via Fashionably Geek)

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