AND YOU'RE ALL COMING WITH ME

Gosh, but these things never fail to tickle me pink.  The cynical part of me thinks that this will just result in a bunch of little "you bad boy" wrist slaps, but I also have the feeling that this madam is going to go for gusto, and she and her ponies have my full and unconditional support.

This is what happens when you' ( Read more... )

This morning on NPR there was an 8-minute segment on forced abortions in China that brought me to tears.  I've been driven so batty over our country's recent ban on "partial birth" abortions that I've done what every good American does in times of great crisis: look the other way, preferably at material goods for purchase on the internet.  However ( Read more... )

Dan Savage has got some brilliantly eloquent op-ed pieces out about gay marriage and adoption that just break my heart.

Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing

By Dan Savage

THERE were community meetings in Seattle on Wednesday. Some of the couples who had sued to overturn Washington’s ban on same-sex marriage, a case they lost before the state’s ( Read more... )

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Well, how about that.

Not 24 hours after my rant on that same subject, my wish came true.

+ + + FDA Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine + + +

This, today, is a great day.  A GREAT day.

Next: Plan B.

My new least-favorite commercial these days:

Tell Someone

This is a bunch of women claiming that Human Papilloma Virus gives women cervical cancer.  GIVES.

I've never appreciated scare tactics when it comes to my body, and I don't like a group of actresses with their concerned eyes telling me that I WILL get cervical cancer because I have HPV.  This ( Read more... )

Girls, welcome to the Republic of Gilead, where the American healthcare system treats us not as people, but as baby machines.

Forever Pregnant
Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant

By January W. Payne
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 16, 2006; HE01

New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat ( Read more... )

In the decades between World War II and Roe v. Wade, 1.5 million young women were secretly sent to homes for unwed mothers and coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. Now their stories are finally being told.

May. 11, 2006 | "Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to keep [my] baby, or explained the options. I went to a maternity home, I was ( Read more... )

This does not solve the problem that is the persecution of those who receive and give abortions, but this woman is my new hero:

“I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”

--Cecelia Fire Thunder, ( Read more... )