Today on ErosBlog: a 1966 magazine article on condoms. Chiefly it's about the primarily anticompetitive reasons why condoms were then mostly for sale only via drug stores and not by mail order, but there are disquisitions into (probably spurious) condom history and literary discussions of French ticklers and penis modification:

https://www.erosblog.com/2025/04/19/report-on-rubber-goods/

Follow #SCOTUS’ opinion announcements today at below link, the court will also be hearing oral arguments in Medina v. #PlannedParenthood South Atlantic.

#law #ReproductiveRights #BirthControl #CancerScreenings #FamilyPlanning #AbortionIsHealthcare #USpol
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/announcement-of-opinions-for-wednesday-april-2/

#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood

The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/

By VOTING for DEMOCRATS, WE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM

The Healey-Driscoll Administration in Massachusetts has implemented two standing orders allowing approximately 500,000 eligible Massachusetts residents to obtain free over-the-counter birth control pills and prenatal vitamins. #uspol #uspolitics #freedom #birthcontrol #health #massachusetts #mapol #mapoli

https://www.wgbh.org/news/health/2025-03-06/state-orders-open-access-to-free-prenatal-vitamins-birth-control

I love mine!!
(#Awas= go away, begone, etc in #Cree. One of the maybe 4 words I know lol.)
#iud #mirena #birthcontrol

I Massachusetts.

Governor Healey just made prenatal vitamins and OTC birth control part of mass health & some other medical mass insurance program.

I rejoice when I see something helping women who want to have children and who don’t want to have children. This is really wonderful, but I’m kind of surprised that someone on mass health who is pregnant would have had to pay for prenatals anyway.

I have came to the conclusion that it is hard for people to understand to wear a mask as a part of layering protections, like vaccinating, clean air, testing, and isolating when ill....because the same people seem to think that AFAB person using birth control alone is enough to prevent pregnancy.

Birth control alone is not 100% effective. Layer protections to prevent crotch goblins AND STD's. Both partners need to be protected.

Mask up both up and down.

SCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare win

But more significant threats from Trump’s Department of Justice remain.

by Julianne McShane, 2/24/2025

"Abortion rights advocates took the court’s rejection of the cases as a win, albeit a limited one.

"Katie O’Connor, director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said that while the organization was “relieved” to hear about the court’s decision, “anti-abortion extremists are now more emboldened” thanks to Trump.

"Last month, for example, Trump’s DOJ announced it would limit enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 federal law that prohibits physical force, threats, or intimidation against people trying to access reproductive health clinics. While the law has been used to prosecute both anti-abortion protesters targeting abortion clinics and abortion rights protesters targeting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, Trump baselessly claimed the Biden administration 'selectively weaponized [the law] against Christians.' The new DOJ guidance—which says the FACE Act should only be used in 'extraordinary circumstances' or cases involving 'death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage'—reportedly has abortion providers bracing for more intense protests and fearing more violence. (The DOJ’s directive to limit FACE Act enforcement, though, does not override the legality of buffer zones, which are controlled by state and local law enforcement.)"

Read more:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/scotus-just-gave-abortion-clinics-a-rare-win/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#AbortionRights #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #BodilyAutonomy #BirthControl #PlannedParenthood
#ProBirth is not #ProLife!

The first bill heard in this committee today was the one that would give doctors the right to conscientiously object to providing birth control, sterilizing procedures, a hysterectomy, or an abortion.

I had to stop watching it partly because I had to go to an appointment but it was really pissing me off we didn’t hear any of these concerns when they were having a hearing to see about getting Medicaid to stop covering circumcisions that aren’t medically necessary or religious based.

This is an attack on women’s healthcare. One of the healthcare providers who testified against the bill called it a right to discriminate, and she’s right. Nobody’s trying to force a doctor to provide services they don’t provide, we’re just saying that if they would give a tubal ligation to me if I already have three kids they should give me one if I have zero children because I don’t want children.

From: @maggiejk
https://zeroes.ca/@maggiejk/11395281879534644

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.

In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.

You can learn more about the Modern School Movement here: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #HubertHenryHarrison #blackhistorymonth #Revolution #communism #socialism #anarchism #IWW #union #strike #racism #lynching #birthcontrol #harlem #slavery #jimcrow #author #writer #nonfiction #books #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Jessica Valenti is trying to save CDC documents before Trump administration scrubs them all out

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/cdc-birth-control-guidelines

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/15/contraception-apps-women-birth-control

Conspicuously absent from this article was any mention of the primary hazard... heterosexuality

#LesbianFTW
#BirthControl

Today in Labor History January 1, 1879: Ben Reitman was born on this day. Reitman was a comrade and one-time lover of Emma Goldman, a doctor to hobos and prostitutes, and an anarchist organizer. He wrote the novel, “Boxcar Bertha.” Scorsese later made a film based on this book. Reitman became a hobo at the age of ten, but returned to Chicago and got a job in a lab. In 1900, he started medical school. His first daughter founded the nudist Out-of-Door Club at Highland, New York. As a physician, Reitman performed many abortions when they were still illegal. In 1907 he founded the Hobo College for migrant education, political organizing and social services. The during San Diego Free Speech Fight in 1912-1913, vigilantes tarred and feathered him, burned “IWW” into his skin and raped him with a broom. In 1916, he served six-month in prison for breaking the Comstock Law by disseminating information on birth control.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #benreitman #emmagoldman #IWW #freespeech #prostitution #sexwork #abortion #immigration #birthcontrol #prison #writer #author #books #novels #fiction @bookstadon

November 14, 1916: Margaret Sanger was arrested for operating a birth control clinic. She also created the American Birth Control League, 1921, which would later become Planned Parenthood. Ironically, she opposed abortions and, as a nurse, refused to participate in them. She also supported eugenics.

Will #BirthControl Be #Banned During #Trump's #SecondTerm? #Experts Explain #Future #Access

You don't need to get an #IUD just yet. (Unless you want to!)

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a62842648/is-birth-control-going-to-be-banned/