To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
“We need some gender equity here,” she told HuffPost. “The Virginia senate is about to pass a bill that will require a woman to have totally unnecessary medical procedure at their cost and inconvenience. If we’re going to do that to women, why not do that to men?”
Day: January 31, 2012
CFP: Theorizing the Body, Embodiment, and Body-Practices
The submission deadline is Feb. 15 for this lovely conference [pdf] of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy. Details are always available at the C-SWIP homepage as well.
Dissolve the APA?
I thought readers may want to know that the question as to why the APA ought to continue to exist has been raised; sure, many American philosophers have privately pondered this, but the question is posed and defended in a serious way by a philosopher tasked with exploring ways to keep the APA afloat. Our readers are welcome to comment here, but I recommend reading the original post and the responses at the source.
I should note my own bias: Although I’ve been a dues-paying member for fifteen years, I’ve long considered the end of the APA as a good (that is, likely, perhaps even desirable) possibility.
Feminist Philosophers 