NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!

I am not the most politically correct person ever put on the earth and I like it that way. INS is not politically correct and it’ll stay like that as long as I’m around. I’ve said before that the biggest strike against pro-choice organizations like Planned Parenthood and NARAL is that they try so hard [...]

Wow. Little dusty in here, isn’t it?

Although I do pop up from time to time on INS’ Facebook page (and love that more and more discover the site each day) I have been woefully neglectful of INS in recent months. Since a lot of people who hang out at Facebook are relative INS n00bs I just wanted to give you a [...]

Sex Ed: Then and Now

I initially learned about sex at the age of seven from reading a book called “A Boy’s Sex Life” written by a Catholic priest.

(waits for laughter to subside. NO SERIOUSLY YOU CAN STOP LAUGHING NOW)

Back in the seventies my little hometown in New Jersey made quite a stir in the Roman Catholic Church [...]

Oops, We’re Pregnant! (cue the laugh track)

Once the stigma of illegitimacy began to wear off in the eighties, mainstream books, television and movies began to use what is now almost a de rigueur plot line—the accidental baby. True, soaps had been doing this for years but it always seemed that said baby was always mothered or fathered by the “right” person [...]

Requiem for Rachel

As numerous posts on Facebook, Twitter and other places have informed me, today is National Coming Out Day to raise awareness of gay rights issues. I like to think that the majority of INS readers are pretty aware of gay rights or lack thereof so I’m not going to hop onto the metaphorical soapbox and [...]

It’s HEEEE-EEERE!!!

As has been pretty obvious for the past few weeks, INS 4.0 is up and running. Thanks to everyone for your positive feedback on the new look of the site. The most gushing of thanks, though, has to go to AAG of ThreeDesignThree.com, who also writes a fantastic blog at, what else, AAGblog.com. I’ve been [...]

Ruth’s Story

I have never really been able to take birth control, it makes me very ill. I was dating and living with a boy, (for his privacy, we will call him ‘Guy’) and we, like most couples, were sexually involved. I was 17 and he was 20, neither of us had children. For the most part, [...]

Ruth’s Story

I did it before and I’d do it again. I am not ashamed or embarrassed. My children know that I have had an abortion. It is not a secret part of my life. I would advise anyone to do it. Abortion should be covered by insurance, by Medicaid/care, supplied by the “state”. Cheap and available [...]

Ruth’s Story

I got pregnant at 15. At that age, keeping it was not an option for me. Neither was giving it up for adoption – any child I choose to bring into this world is one whom I will take full responsibility for. I am so grateful that my mother has always been passionately pro-choice, for [...]

Ruth’s Story

Well, I was three times unlucky. With the first one, it was that good ol’ Birth Control Non-Use Russian Roulette catching up with me. I knew IMMEDIATELY that the little swimmer had found its target. Don’t ask me how; I just did. I went to a private clinic to have the procedure done. Clinics will [...]