1. About bras and exercise : apparently most of the bras available nowadays don't really limit breast motion during exercise- hence do not offer adequate support to the breast. Acc. to the article, the most effective are the molded cup/encapsulation bras which limit all types of breast movement.
2. Previvors and preventive Mastectomy : this is a pretty moving story of a young woman with a BRCA1 gene mutation. What would you do if you knew you had a 60 to 90 % chance of developing breast cancer and a 50% chance of getting ovarian cancer? If removing your breasts would reduce the risk by 90% and removing your ovaries would halve the risk - would you opt for either..or both or would you wait and watch? Its a longish article- but worth the read.
3. Human or not? : The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a doctor is under no obligation to tell a pregnant woman that she is carrying “an existing human being” before performing an abortion. Somehow I am still annoyed by the article.. The whole concept of being pro-choice is that an informed woman can make decisions that best suit her..is it fair to say that this woman was not or rather did not feel informed enough? On the other hand, it is a moral judgement that should not have to be pushed on to a doctor..And if a doctor was forced to pronounce a fetus of any age human or not (as per his very human capabilities)- then the woman just had to believe him or find another information source. The whole situation is very repeatable and not going away anytime soon..