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Eat right. Avoid cigarettes. ...college kids hear this wisdom from their university health-services and wellness officials. However, it is unlikely that these same students will hear this gem: “Casual sexual liaisons on college campuses are hazardous, especially for young women." [snip] In Unprotected, Dr. Grossman posits that one reason college health services are inundated with depression, eating disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases is that health professions have failed to address the medical and psychological risks of unrestrained sexual behavior. She also presents the effects of sexual license on long-term infertility in women, the effects of abortion on the mental health...

Eat right. Avoid cigarettes. ...college kids hear this wisdom from their university health-services and wellness officials. However, it is unlikely that these same students will hear this gem: “Casual sexual liaisons on college campuses are hazardous, especially for young women." [snip] In Unprotected, Dr. Grossman posits that one reason college health services are inundated with depression, eating disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases is that health professions have failed to address the medical and psychological risks of unrestrained sexual behavior. She also presents the effects of sexual license on long-term infertility in women, the effects of abortion on the mental health...

[Just as women should not be punished for choosing to terminate a pregnancy, men should not be punished when those women choose not to.] For pro-choicers like myself, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s position regarding spousal consent for abortion seems like one more loose rock in the ongoing erosion of Roe vs. Wade. ...[but]I wonder if this idea of choice is being fairly applied. ...[W]hat about the kind of life men want to lead? ...why shouldn't men have the right during at least the first trimester of pregnancy to terminate their legal and financial rights and responsibilities to...