Virginity or death!
Good lord I love Katha Pollitt. This column is about a week old, but check it out if you haven’t already. She writes about the religious right’s opposition to an HPV vaccine that could save the lives of thousands of women, and help prevent cervical cancer in even more. I remember when people rolled their [...]
...read moreStem cell bill passes in the House
Too bad Bush will probably veto it and continue to block funding for this potentially life-saving research. I found this section particularly interesting: “Research on stem cells derived from human embryos may offer great promise, but the way those cells are derived today destroys the embryo,” said the president who was speaking before a group [...]
...read moreKnow your enemy
I read anti-choice blogs, websites and op/eds often. Why? Not just to get mad, but because I think you have to really understand what you’re up against before you can properly counter it. One thing I always find interesting about the anti-choice movement is their relative success in convincing the general public that stopping abortion [...]
...read moreOn Being a Breed Mare
This one speaks for itself, or will have to because I can’t come up with anything remotely un-profane to say about it: Imagine two rape victims taken to the same hospital emergency room. Imagine them put in adjoining examination rooms. Let’s say they have identical injuries. Presume everything about them is the same except for [...]
...read moreMy Own Private Schiavo
I disappeared fromthe guest-blogging on Friday. At first, the reason was work. Then in the middle of the day, I got a call from my wife. My wife’s aunt (and God-mother) had a massive aneurism. She’s in a hospital far away. She’s on a respirator. Her body will not regulate fluids, her blood pressure is [...]
...read moreCulture Of Life: Oil Of The 21st Century
Ninety days after water generated horror and headlines around the globe, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said that 400 million children – almost one fifth of all children – lack even the bare minimum of safe water they need to live. At least 20 litres of safe water per day (about two buckets) are essential [...]
...read moreCulture Of Life: Collaboration
Pharmacist Zeena Qushtiny was dressed in the latest Western fashion and wearing a sparkling diamond necklace when she was taken at gunpoint from her pharmacy in Baghdad by insurgents. Her body was found 10 days later with two bullet holes close to her eyes. She was covered in a traditional abaya veil preferred by Islamic [...]
...read moreHumorous Insert
Thank whomever somebody has a sense of humor about all this. Other 293 Million Americans Waiting For Congress To Pass Bills For Them The success of Congress’s record-breakingly speedy passage of a bill specifically crafted for the parents and brother of persistently-vegetative Terry Shiavo induced a furor this morning as America’s other 293 million inhabitants [...]
...read moreOn the Culture Of Life
A modified letter on the matter of Terri Schiavo coverage suggested by Goose, sent to dozens of mainstream media outlets: Dear Sir or Madam: I know it is too late to make a difference in the outcome of the legislation, but it is reprehensible that Republican lawmakers and the President are willing to interfere in [...]
...read moreCulture Of Life: Guantanamo
Hundreds of US nationals are picked up around the world by a foreign government fighting a “war for national security”. The government in question is reacting to evidence that a recent bombing on its territory which left thousands of civilians dead was instigated by a shadowy network based in the United States. The detainees, according [...]
...read moreCulture of Life: Death Be Not Proud
Gerri Santoro was the mother of two daughters, and recently estranged from her abusive husband. For whatever reason, Gerri met another man, Clyde Dixon, and (gasp!) had sex with him. She became pregnant. Fearful of what her husband would do to her if he returned to town and learned she was pregnant by another man, [...]
...read moreCulture Of Life: Shoot First, Pay Later
Two bursts of automatic gunfire rang out across a busy street in west Baghdad, echoing off the walls of the Australian embassy and one of the city’s major hotels. A few seconds later, a three-vehicle convoy belonging to a private security company, transporting a foreigner working to facilitate Iraq’s parliamentary elections, began to drive away [...]
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