I have terminated two pregnancies. (Any defriending is completely acceptable and, really, good riddance if you don't accept my right to make this choice ( Read more... )

BEST essay I think I've ever read on "Why I'm a Feminist" or on DW by cluegirland why it's IMPORTANT TO ALL PEOPLE/HUMANITY to be a feminist.

You are not sociopaths, biologically incapable of empathy, sympathy, or altruism; you are emotionally sapient creatures, entirely capable of perceiving, understanding, and extending grace to those whose emotional ( Read more... )

Patrick Stewart has done something very brave and very frightening and incredibly important: he has spoken out, honestly and directly about his experience as a child watching his father beat his mother. Would that more people in visible positions would speak out about the long-lasting effects of domestic violence, and would that there were more ( Read more... )

Edited: surrealis wrote a lovely essay on "Feminism and Gender in Fannish Discourse" which I neglected to realize was flocked. It has excellent discussion of how women frame things in online--particularly LJ--discussions in fannish meta. Part of the discussion is about whether this difference should/could be seen as something other than internalized ( Read more... )

Losing my religion for equality by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 2009.

Jimmy Carter has severed ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades in the name of gender equality. I'm so proud to have had him as a president of my country during my lifetime.

Excerpt
My fellow Elders and I, who come from many faiths and backgrounds, no longer ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post a link to this for a while now. cereta made a post that has spawned lots of thought and discussion that I think is important.

( Cut for possibly triggering stuff in the excerpts and comments, for those of you who are interested; links below if you'd rather just that )

This got long, what with the links and the rants. I am not cut-tagging it. It is too important.

In what shouldn't be a surprise to me, but is:

Dr. George Tiller was murdered at church this morning.

Dr. Tiller's Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, KS was one of the ONLY in the country providing some of the termination services to women ( Read more... )

Palin Links, with a bit of McCain and a reference to Bush for Good Measure
Unless the Republicans give her a helluva crash course, in the Oct. 2 debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin will be the Dan Quayle of 2008. Palin scares me TERRIBLY in her insistence that everyone should beleive in her God the way she does, her insistence that women shouldn't ( Read more... )

neadods posted an update on the situation with medical "conscience objection" and the dangers introduced by the DHHS's new position. She also has excellent links to previous situations with extreme refusal of care that could become legal with the new systems.With the choice of the incredibly anti-choice Palin as anti-choice McCain's running mate, this ( Read more... )

kirbyfest said it better than I can and linked to maho_kiwi, who said it better than either of us and gave a number of courses of action we can take to oppose this discriminatory and anti-woman law that is going to go into effect in 30 days. This is the law's wording.

This legislation states that all medical facilities that receive government funding would ( Read more... )