Archive for 'abortion'
Explaining the Stupak Amendment + Palin's Pro-Life Protesters
Palin Doesn’t Convince the Pro-Life Movement, Either: Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that a Pro-life movement, the American Right to Life, believes that Palin is secretly pro-choice. Dispute Over Repercussions of Health Care Reform Act? At the NPR health blog Shots, Julie Rovner explains that neither abortion rights groups nor anti-abortion groups believe that [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under abortion, agency, government, health care, politics.
Tags: abortion, amendment, bart stupak, choice, costs, coverage, government, health, health care, health care reform, hr3962, insurance, medicaid, NPR, palin, private, pro life, public, risk pool, sarah, stupak, supplemental
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Christian Right Wants Less Liberty for Women, More Crime?
Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2009 under abortion, crime, economics, health care, women's health, women's rights.
Tags: abortion, burt stupak, children, choice, christian right, christina page, crime, economics, family, Freakonomics, freedom, health, health care, insurance, kevin drum, life, mother jones, politics, roe v. wade, stem-cell, stephen j. dubner, steven d. leavitt, women's rights
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The Rape Index: Statistics Speak for Themselves
In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under abortion, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, sexual assault.
Tags: abortion, born-again Christians, california, Catholic Church, college, emergency contraception, evangelical Christians, Florida, genocide, harper's, HIV, incest, marriage, medical professionals, New York, Pakistan, poetry, race, rape, Rudy Giuliani, rwanda, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, socioeconomic class, statistics, three strikes
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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More Like Bringing Repression of Women Back…
Okay, check out this video that I got from NARAL Pro-Choice America today. If you’re bringing sexy back, and not considering women, I hope you’re looking to other genders to have sex with. Just sayin’.
Posted: August 4th, 2007 under 2008, America, Bringing Sexy Back, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Justin Timberlake, Mitt Romney, NARAL, Roe vs. Wade, Sam Brownback, a woman's right to choose, abortion, candidate, election, freedom, law, life, medicine, presidential, presidential debate, pro life, pro-choice, procedure, radical right, science.
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Every (Male) Sperm Is Sacred.
. . .That’s pretty close to the text of a new bill introduced to the Ohio legislature by Republican John Adams, who suggests that women who are trying to get an abortion should have to get written permission from their fetus’ fathers in order to abort. Yep, that’s right. The Record Courier reports that the [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Department of Justice, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, John Adams, NARAL, Ohio, abort, abortion, abortion ban, anti-choice, bill, birth, dominance, father, fetus, financial responsibility, freedom, human rights, incest, intelligence, justice, law, legislature, man, parents, partial birth abortion, paternal permission, paternity, paternity test, permission, police, police report, politics, privacy, pro-choice, rape, rapist, record courier, reproductive rights, republican, sex, sperm, sperm bank, unborn children, women's rights.
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