Women have been quietly making gains in education, leadership, respect in the media, and power in the office. Obviously, that's why we're suffering from an anti-feminist backlash. But this time, it's all about ridiculous standards of chastity.
There's a sticker, unpeeled, on my father's office desk. I don't know where it's from, but it's meant to demonstrate one's opposition to the Reproductive Health Bill now in Congress in the Philippines. "Say no," the sticker reads, a thick red diagonal line dashing across the glossy sheet of vinyl.
There are so many surveys about abortion that it's practically a cottage industry, but the newest - by The Public Religion Research Institute of Washington, DC - suggests intriguing and fresh approaches that can help advocates make a more compelling case.
