Abortion? Who Will Speak for Indigenous People Murdered by Guatemalan...
In the second article below this one, “Will Obama Release ‘Avalanche of Dollars’ to ‘Kill Our Babies?” Siglo Vientiuno of Guatemala blasts the US and its government, and holds up Guatemala as an...
View Article“Conscience” Rule Rolling Away. Just Do Your Job!
The LA Times reports that President Obama is looking into rolling back the annoying and politically motivated “Conscience Rule” signed by President Bush at the end of his last term. The rule didn’t...
View ArticleObama Creates Council on Women and Girls, Valerie Jarrett to Lead It
I’ve been getting word of the announcement that President Obama would create the White House Council on Women and Girls today since yesterday afternoon, so it’s almost a bit anti-climactic. However,...
View ArticleU.S. Government To Switch To Chinese Made Condoms To Distribute Abroad
The U.S. government is switching to Chinese made condoms, doing to an Alabama company what condoms…(never mind). Here’s a real stimulus story: Call it a condom conundrum. At a time when the federal...
View ArticleWhere the Ship Hijacked by “Pirates” Was Headed, Mercy Mission: A Lost Story
I’ve recently been trying to understand how the MSM covers religious issues and people. I find, reading the religious news feeds rather ‘religiously’ daily, that many stories are buried by media before...
View ArticleThe Temptation of Sarah Palin
She has become a stereotypical figure–loved or reviled, depending on the beholder’s politics–but the other day, for a brief moment, Sarah Palin let herself be seen as a human being with complicated...
View ArticleBlessed Mother’s Day to the Mothers of the World
There are many kinds of mothers… But, there’s another definition of ‘who is really a mother’ that has both breadth and depth…. one that includes this first kind of mother, but also does not define...
View ArticleThought Experiment: What If The Law Really Did Say Life Begins At Conception?
DISCLAIMER: This is a thought experiment regarding a LEGAL issue, not a moral or political quandary. My own personal beliefs are that life is a continuous chain and neither conception nor viability nor...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor and Abortion Rights
Amid all the coverage of Pres. Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, not a whole lot of attention has been given to her views on Roe v. Wade. Charlie...
View ArticleWichita: Gunman Murders Dr. George Tiller in Lutheran Church This Morning
Wichita Kansas: Media outlets are reporting that Dr. George Tiller has been murdered at his church in Wichita, Kan. He is one of the nation’s few doctors who performs late-term abortions in keeping...
View Article“An Incalculable Loss to Women’s Health Care”
Michelle Goldberg has a must-read article at The American Prospect about Dr. George Tiller. The article is written from a perspective we have not heard much about before now: that of the women who...
View ArticleTiller is dead, but what happened?
While my conservative friends continue to rail against the idea, it does indeed feel like we’re seeing a re-run of the same bad movie we watched during the 90s. Why is it that whenever a Democrat is in...
View ArticleDr George Tiller
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View ArticlePro Choice vs. No Choice
As I’ve been hearing about the doctor who was recently murdered for performing later term abortions, I realized for hundredth time how cleverly the self-proclaimed “Pro-Life” people have outwitted the...
View ArticleDavid Letterman Apology, Bristol Palin: How To Create A Whore (In Some Minds)
I thought the time had passed when emotionally vulnerable young women were called out and excoriated by men… for having loved a man– and become pregnant with new life…. and without having first stood...
View ArticleThe Mama Grizzly Test: Ohio’s Top Court Denies Leave For Mama Grizzlies-To-Be
The Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision today in McFee v. Nursing Care Management of America, Inc. that holds that, “…it’s not gender discrimination for employers to require a minimum tenure for...
View ArticleCows, Pigs, Women and American Conservatives (The News, Switzerland)
How extreme have Republican Party members become? For Switzerland’s News, columnist Patrik Etschmayer writes that the ongoing Republican narrative about women, contraception and abortion sounds a lot...
View ArticleOn The Road To Our Own Handmaid’s Tale?
Ages ago I read Margaret Atwood’s brilliant dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, about patriarchal religion gone nuts. Now in 2012 I just can’t help thinking that with the world sprouting nutty...
View ArticleWomen at the polls 2012
A lot of the political discourse and speculation in the 2012 election season is about the women’s vote. There seem to be a lot of questions about why women tend to favor the Democratic Party over the...
View ArticleNo Comfort For Women In Mitt Romney’s Debate Performance
Paul Ryan was asked during the Vice-Presidential debate if women should worry about the continued ability to have a legal abortion. His answer was basically, yes, women should worry. During last...
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