Anti-Choice Dems Receive Death Threats From Pro-Lifers
Oh the irony. This isn’t surprising, given the far-right’s habit of threatening and sometimes carrying out violence against those they disagree with; it is particularly predictable given the anti-choice movement’s reliance on violence and intimidation. This is what radicals in the anti-choice movement do — they threaten people, they scream outside of clinics, they yell [...]
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“None of this is about healthcare at all. It’s about extending a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.”
So says House Majority Whip James Clyburn about the rancor, anger and general unhinged-ness coming from the GOP and Tea Party protestors. And he’s right. So is Bob Herbert, in this must-read column.* Herbert details the Tea Partiers taunting a man with Parkinson’s, spitting on black congressmen, and shouting racial and homophobic epithets. Despite Republicans’ [...]
...read moreBack Up Your Birth Control 2010
It’s Back Up Your Birth Control Day! Last year, I posted a general “here’s what emergency contraception is and how it works” because an unofficial poll of my friends shocked me – many of them didn’t know what EC even was. This year, I’ll assume people are now sufficiently learned and instead tell you ways [...]
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Amazing Women: Joanie Warner and Abby Mahler
This blog post about mother and daughter Joanie and Abby warmed my heart, and could not have been written about two more lovely, inspiring women. Joanie has been battling cancer for more than a decade, and her daughter Abby has used her love of music to raise awareness about breast cancer and to shore up [...]
...read moreThe White House’s Anti-Choice Party
Will be happening today as Obama signs his executive order limiting abortion rights under health care reform. Attendees include Bart Stupak and his bloc of 12 anti-choice Democrats. The event will be closed to the news media, I suspect because any photographs would come out looking suspiciously like the top image here.
...read moreAware of what exactly?
Cross-posted at Zero at the Bone and FWD/Forward. Well, it’s Disability Awareness Month in Indiana, USA. Sound Bend, IN, network WSBT are raising awareness with a story about Sarah Schelstraete, who has Down Syndrome. It’s called Sarah’s Story: Hard at work despite disabilities. One thousand points if you can anticipate from the title what my [...]
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