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“In asserting women's right to choose, I wonder if we have not also lost the idea of child-bearing as a sacred responsibility, and have learned to see it as a burden which can be cast aside by ‘choice'?”: Trinidad and Tobago blogger Jeremy Taylor examines the issue of abortion.

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco

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Manoel Netto [pt] announces the arrival of Brazilian social media product Brasigo, a product based on user generated content tailored to Brazilians. “We fully believe in Social Media and we are investing our time, effort and creativity in the development of tools focused on that”

Claudia Chez Abreu [es] writes about the upcoming Twitter.do meet-up. They still haven't decided on a date, but they are working on a spreadsheet to estimate number of participants who would show up and the best date for the event. The plan is to go bowling, so if you are a twitterer in Dominican Republic and would like to catch up on all the details, subscribe to the @dominicanos twitter feed, then go to Claudia's blog and sign up!

Arianna writes at the Dunlaps in San Salvador blog [en] about the process to get a driver's license in El Salvador at 15. In this humorous article in English she mentions the requisites and gives us a tip on what to do if a driver sees a dog on the left side of the street while driving (a question she failed on the written exam). She also mentions how it isn't a pleasure for her to drive in the crowded city but that nevertheless, for San Salvador, it is culturally important to know how to drive at an early age.