New clinic puts women’s eggs on layaway - What is this, K-Mart? A doctor in Missisauga, ON has opened a clinic that allows women to freeze their eggs at a later date. While the technology isn’t new, the sales job is. Typically the service is made available to women whose fertility may be compromised by cancer treatments. Dr. Essam Michael is now offering the service as insurance against a ticking biological clock.
Pregnancy = closet - A study released in Vancouver, BC found that LGB teens are three times more likely to be involved in a teenage pregnancy than their heterosexual counterparts. Many lesbian and bisexual girls use pregnancy as “last-ditch effort” to avoid high school bullying, while gay and bisexual boys get girls pregnant as a way of proving their manhood. Some counselors who work with LGBT teens are skeptical: “We have 250 to 300 youths in our programs at any one time. I can’t think of a single teen pregnancy,” said Clare Nobbs, a Toronto-based youth counselor.
For the first time, US minority population tops 100 million - New data released by the US Census Bureau show that the US “minority” (read non-white) population is over the 100 million mark. It goes without saying that this is leading to some white panic. “I just don’t want to lose my country,” says Donna Leech, a 65-year-old South Florida resident. Leech says she often “feels excluded” when she hears languages other than English being spoken around her. According to the news story, most in South Florida view minorities as recent immigrants from overseas or other countries. Native-born African Americans or American Indians aren’t seen in the same light. How’s that for the assimilation blues?
Democrats seek diversity in advisers - Few of the advisers who have the ears of the major Republican candidates are women or people of color. David Bositis, a senior researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies believes that the problem of relying on white men as advisors goes beyond mere symbolism. “What you hear and what you think about is going to be decided to some degree by those people who are around you…If your campaign is dominated by white men and your inner circle is dominated by white men, then what you’re going to be thinking about is the … perspective of white men, usually middle-aged white men.”
