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• Any Olive Branches after Tuesday Night?

  Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: 2 Comments Tuesday threatened to preclude substantive discussion about the most pressing issues—and not just between Democratic candidates—for another eight weeks. [Read More]

• War Crimes, Crimes Against Women and the Imperative to Heal

  Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: (Comments Off) You cannot work to protect basic human rights without seeing this one as absolute: freedom isn’t freedom if it’s only for half of the population. [Read More]

• Shmashmortion and the Year Hollywood Got Weak-Kneed Over Knocked Up Gals

  Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: (Comments Off) Parenthood’s rocky road, be it through adoption, one night stand or teen passion, gets glossed over by Hollywood’s vision of b-a-b-y as happily ever after. [Read More]

• Knocked Up Teens in Texas

  Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: (Comments Off) If you’ve got a teenager, steer clear of Texas. Why? Because Texas holds the dubious distinction of not only being #1 in the nation for teen pregnancy but also for repeat teen pregnancy. [Read More]

• How Much Time Should She Do?

  Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: 2 Comments ...if you are trying to explain to your children the real differences between boys and girls, it’s not what toys they play with or what clothes they wear; the difference comes once the boys and girls grow up to become men and women, at least in 2007 and looking out upon the political landscape potentially for some time to come, because society still believes women are unable to enjoy control over their reproductive lives. No comparable parallels exist for men, no real life mother-may-I games. [Read More]

• Boys, Girls, How We Look, How We Are

  Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: 2 Comments During kindergarten, my middle son told me he wanted his next lunchbox to have a mirror in it like Hannah’s. Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Cornell historian and author of The Body Project, counsels adults never to comment upon girls’ appearance. Comment instead, she suggests, on what they are doing. Following that advice is not so easy. Just try it. [Read More]

• What Do Breast Milk (Breasts Included) and Abortion Have in Common?

  Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 12:01 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: (Comments Off) While it might seem that breastfeeding and abortion have little in common, delve further. The Supreme Court with its recent decision about later-term abortion believes that legally women do not enjoy agency over their own reproductive decisions. [Read More]

• Language of Life and Death

  Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:00 AM by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Comment Here: 1 Comments When those opposing abortion in Tennessee bring a bill to the state legislature to mandate death certificates for fetal tissue post-abortion things have not only gone too far, they’ve veered right past contentious into surreal. [Read More]