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Guest Post at Engaged Marriage: Get Sold on Awesome Intimacy

By On July 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

Guest blog post: Get sold on awesome intimacy, not an expensive wedding

I can’t believe I totally missed this, but Dustin over at Engaged Marriage posted one of my articles as a guest post…..over a year ago! I remember sending him that [...]

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Giving a Pass to the Pill

By On April 13, 2011 · 3 Comments

Just in case you didn’t see this great piece by fertility super advocate and one time  One More Soul Exec Director, Jenn Giroux, check it it out: “Giving a Pass to the Pill.”

Shouldn’t the same standards and cautions be applied to [...]

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Yaz: Canary in the coal mine

Yaz: Canary in the Coal Mine

By On February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last night I was watching the local news about the chemical Triclosan, an active ingredient in a number of consumer products including hand sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, and toothpaste. I knew that using hand sanitizer and antibacterial soaps probably wouldn’t be good as [...]

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Contraceptives May Double Risk of Stroke

By On March 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

This is not breaking news, but a oldie but goodie article link I didn’t get a chance to post before.

Contraceptives May Double Risk of Stroke.

My favorite line: “benefits [of contraception] still outweigh the risks for most users.” Growing numbers of “most users” would [...]

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Have You Experienced Negative Side Effects of the Pill?

By On January 25, 2010 · 4 Comments

Just found this new blog, Sweetening the Pill, which is all about spreading the bad news of the BCP, and empowering women to find something better.

Take her poll: Have you experienced negative side effects of the [...]

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Ditching the Pill for Good (for…..)

By On January 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The surprising part of this article isn’t that it gets that the Pill isn’t a panacea. Nope, it’s a frank article that questions the health benefits and one size fits all approach to women’s wellness that currently passes as health care. The surprising thing is that [...]

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What You Didn’t Learn in Sex Ed

By On January 23, 2010 · 4 Comments

The Lolek Young Adult group in Elm Grove will feature rockin’ speaker Vicki Thorn, founder of Project Rachel. Vicki’s topic will be “What they didn’t tell you in sex ed,” aka “What you didn’t learn in sex ed,” which is a talk we featured last February in the Diocese of Madison for our St. [...]

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Women Look Beyond the Pill (Surprise!)

By On January 11, 2010 · 2 Comments

No, it’s *not* actually a surprise to NFP fans the that Pill isn’t a panacea. Modern NFP has been around since the 60′s, and more widely known since the 70′s and 80′s. But to those outside the NFP-world-niche, the fact that “Women Look Beyond the Pill” is news.

A Red Tent Sister,

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Contraceptive Users, You May Not Know This

By On December 16, 2009 · 3 Comments

Because I have a variety of readers from across the religious/ political spectrum, I rarely–if ever–touch on the “A” word. Being pro-life is important to me, and I want other people to be pro life, but I never want to hit people over the head with it. Far more people come to understand my position [...]

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An Educated, Artsy-Fartsy Protestant on NFP

By On December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If you read Dustin at Engaged Marriage’s What You Want to Know About Natural Family Planning, this is Kathleen at Project M‘s reply, which begins

I am an educated, fancy-pants, trendy individual. I have two completely useless liberal-arts [...]

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Awe, Anger, Frustration, Relief

By On November 22, 2009 · 11 Comments

Part two of Michelle’s testimony of why they ditched contraception. This part includes more of their actual discovery of the Church teaching, the wonders of fertility, the horror of abortifacients, and the joy of desiring children.

What I think will resonate deeply with readers is the anger of [...]

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Catholic PRWire catches TIME article buzz

By On November 11, 2009 · 5 Comments

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My friend Emily, the new Family Planning Coordinator in the Diocese of Madison, just emailed the link to this commentary on the TIME article and a little bit about my work in Madison. It was posted on [...]

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