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supreme court: california and national
today is shaping up to be quite the supreme court day. in two hours, the california supreme court will read its decision regarding proposition 8. i hope hope hope it is overturned, but i don't have the greatest feeling. still, the california supreme court has known to surprise with many of its past rulings. there is hope. i'm just not feeling ( Read more... ) -
unfuckingbelievable
follow up to this
Vatican backs abortion row bishopA senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help ( Read more... ) -
really, i don't care how you feel about abortion. isn't this going *too* far?
Rape row sparks excommunications
By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Sao Paulo A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church ( Read more... ) -
"enemy of the unborn"
Abortion, not resume, could dominate Sebelius confirmation(CNN) -- The congressional showdown over Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' nomination to President Obama's Cabinet may focus less on her qualifications than on the issue of abortion, analysts said ( Read more... ) -
first person convicted under the new oakland abortion clinic ordinance
Pastor sentenced for Oakland abortion protest
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 19, 2009
(02-19) 17:58 PST OAKLANDA pastor at a Berkeley church was sentenced Thursday to three years' probation and fined $1,000 after becoming the first person convicted under an Oakland ordinance barring protesters from coming within 8 feet of ( Read more... ) -
my response...
as some of you are aware, my LJ became quite the shit storm over my open pleasure of the end of the global gag rule yesterday. while there was debate here in my comments (i was away from the computer for most of the day and only got alerts, but could not update my comments from afar) was pretty heated, it was NOTHING compared to what occurred on ( Read more... ) -
having a pro-choice president is such a welcome change!
i am thrilled, ecstatic, etc etc etc! i am too excited to really type at the moment (it's 730am and i am dancing around my kitchen!). this is one of the things i hoped for most in obama's first week of president! FINALLY... a president who is pro-choice after eight long (and scary) years. now THIS is "change i can believe in ( Read more... ) -
happy anniversary
happy 36th anniversary to roe v wade. the right to choose is one that i will never take for granted and never stop fighting to defend. -
the final stretch
i spent most of the day phone banking for obama (i called voters in virginia, wisconsin, and pennsylvania) and against proposition 8 ( Read more... ) -
yes on obama, no on 4
i spent the bulk of my day phonebanking. i called:
- undecided voters in ohio and pennsylvania encouraging them to vote for obama.
- student voters in indiana and pennsylvania encouraging them to a) vote and b) vote for obama (young people historically do not vote).
- voters in california urging them to vote NO ON 4.on wednesday i am phonebanking ( Read more... )
- undecided voters in ohio and pennsylvania encouraging them to vote for obama.