“Sanctity of Life” apparently doesn’t apply to girls
Interesting that the same week (blessedly soon-to-be-gone) President Bush announced “Sanctity of Life Day,” UNICEF released a report that girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than older women. (via) Worldwide, more than 60 million women who are currently aged 20-24 were married before [...]
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Virtual Shoe Throw on 1/20
Lisa at My Ecdysis came up with a great way to celebrate the fact that Bush is finally leaving office after 8 long years — and to show solidarity with the “Iraqi shoe-thrower” all those who oppose the violence and arrogance that the Bush administration has come to represent. Lisa says: When two shoes were [...]
...read moreWhoops, we do torture people after all
Yeah, oops. One of the more frustrating aspects about this situation — other than the clear human rights violations — is that prolonged detention without charge or trial, coupled with torture and inhumane treatment, shows a fundamental lack of faith in the justice system of a country that conservatives claim to “love” and hold in [...]
...read moreImmigration Prosecutions Drain Resources
Hopefully, all of us here can agree that the United State’s current policies surrounding prosecuting undocumented immigrants for entering the country, and the ways that those immigrants are treated while in custody, are cruel, inhumane and blatantly racist. But this NY Times article also takes the time to highlight how these prosecutions inevitably take resources [...]
...read moreSorry, ladies, but your vagina conflicts with my morals.
In one more blow to women’s health and rights, the Bush Administration has issued a sweeping new regulation giving just about anyone the right to refuse to offer basic women’s health services. It’s being framed as about abortion, but here’s the thing: There are existing laws that protect health care workers from performing or assisting [...]
...read moreShoes and Democracy
You know, even some Americans *cough* have reacted with amusement at the shoe throwing incident. Bush turned the shoe incident into a serious of puns, saying that he’d “seen the man’s sole” for example, and lauded the incident as a moment in democracy, in effect, that people in a democracy are able to politically express [...]
...read more“This is a farewell kiss, you dog”
Shockingly, even in the aftermath of the Great Shoe Attack of 2009, some ungrateful Iraqis aren’t thanking President Bush for putting his life on the line in his unyielding attempts to bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East. Indeed, after six years of war that has killed nearly 100,000 Iraqis and turned some 2 [...]
...read moreThe Bush Legal Legacy: More Whites, Men, and Conservatives
When we talk about judicial appointments, we usually focus on the Supreme Court — and George W. Bush certainly left his mark there with the appointment of two young, very conservative justices who will shape the decisions of the court for the next few decades. But considering that getting a case up to the Supreme [...]
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