Greatest Hits: When Pro-Life Policies Dominate
I was going through our archives and stumbled across this post, which I think is pretty relevant given recent discussions. I would say “enjoy,” but… ________________________ When Pro-Life Policies Dominate One columnist at the Demoines Register takes a look at Ethiopia, where abortion is illegal and 30 percent of maternal deaths result from botched illegal [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: Post-Abortion Syndrome
Originally posted on January 21, 2007. The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article on “post-abortion syndrome,” a psychological condition invented by anti-choice choice groups (it isn’t backed by any credible research, and none of the major psychological associations recognize it) that’s now being used to argue for the illegalization of abortion. The argument [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: My Father’s House is a Terrorist Target
Originally posted on July 18, 2006. My Father’s House is a Terrorist Target By Elmaz AbiNader Two For Hayan: The subject line of an email The subject line of my shortness of breath The subject line of the phone call to my own father who stands in the sun and lifts his head toward the [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: Because respecting women means making all their decisions for them
Originally posted on May 12, 2007. For many years, the political struggle over abortion was often framed as a starkly binary choice: the interest of the woman, advocated by supporters of abortion rights, versus the interest of the fetus, advocated by opponents of abortion. But last month’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: The Global Gag Rule is Killing Women
Originally posted on December 8, 2006. The United States’ policy of denying reproductive health funding to any organization that so much as mentions abortion — by petitioning their own government for reproductive rights, performing abortions with their own non-U.S. money, referring women to abortion providers, or even telling women that abortion is an option — [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: Speaking of the death penalty…
Originally posted on June 4, 2007. Poor death row inmates in Alabama don’t have lawyers. And that’s really too bad, but to expect otherwise would be one of your hippie liberal pipe-dreams: Nobody much likes the fact that Alabama does not provide indigent death row inmates with lawyers. ”Perhaps, in a perfect world, every inmate [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: A Modest Proposal
Originally posted on May 1, 2007. Quit obsessing over what women wear. If we don’t cover up enough, we’re slutty temptresses who cause you to “stumble.” If we’re too covered up, we’re symbols of fundamentalism, and our bodies are just one step on the path to destroying churches and instituting Sharia law.
...read moreGreatest Hits: When Pro-Life Policies Dominate
Originally posted on November 7, 2006. One columnist at the Demoines Register takes a look at Ethiopia, where abortion is illegal and 30 percent of maternal deaths result from botched illegal procedures. In almost the entire continent, ending a pregnancy without some extenuating circumstances is illegal. Ethiopia recently liberalized its law, but performing a routine [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: The Public Woman
Originally posted on May 3, 2007 at Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance. Over the past few months, much ado has been made about the harassment of female bloggers, and the online harassment of women in general. The Kathy Sierra incident — wherein a female technology blogger was threatened so badly that she canceled speaking engagements [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: The Hyde Amendment
Originally posted on January 7, 2007. Women’s eNews has a great article about the anti-choice Hyde Amendment, and pro-choice efforts to dismantle it now that Hyde has left Congress. A quick 101 for those who aren’t familiar with the Hyde Amendment: Passed in the late 1970s, the Hyde Amendment blocks federal Medicaid funding from paying [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits Project
As I mentioned earlier, this week is going to be extremely busy, and I’m not going to have much time to blog. I will put up the YearlyKos reflections that I promised, and I should be able to get up one new post every day. Our lovely guest bloggers will also be posting all week. [...]
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