4/23/13

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Facebook's big misogyny problem
Advertisers and users are upset at inadvertent tolerance of abuse of women on the site.  So why isn't Facebook taking more action?  Read more here.

Indian police arrest second man over rape of five-year-old girl
Fresh protests in Delhi against treatment of women after men accused of abducting, raping and attempting to murder girl. Read more here.


Is It Time for Off-the-Shelf Birth-Control Pills?
When a federal judge recently ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after pill available to women of all ages without a prescription, the ruling was a political embarrassment for the Obama administration and unleashed protests from abortion foes and abstinence advocates. Read more here.

Eden Foods CEO Doesn’t Know Why He’s Against Contraception, but He Is
Michael Potter, the CEO of Eden Foods, has been outed by Irin Carmon at Salon
 as an anti-contraception crusader to his largely liberal customer base, and, to the delight of all watching, has an inability to grasp how incoherent he sounds as he keeps trying to explain what this is all about. Read more here.