In The Political Brain•, Westen mentions that the Republicans are remarkably good at making their values appear to be the values of the majority of Americans when it comes to controversial issues, even though the polls consistently show that the Democratic positions are actually more similar. This is due to two things, Westen says. First, [...]
Archive for the ‘Reproductive Rights’ Category
Republicans, contraception, and more on the political brain …
Posted in Branding, Contraception, Democrats, Reproductive Rights, Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nails done at 1:30, Have baby at 4:00
Posted in Health Morality, Health care, Mommy Wars, Reproductive Rights on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times has an excellent article about the practice of inducing labor, which has been on the rise for the last twenty or so years. Apparently, for a variety of reasons, some hospitals have been trying to control this trend.
Some hospitals and healthcare organizations across the nation share her concerns. Several have barred elective [...]
Reproductive Choice = perfect demonic system to worship the devil
Posted in Conservative Craziness, Reproductive Rights, What the Fuck? on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh my god, they’re on to us. That’s right. The largest “pro-life” organization in the world, Human Life International, has stumbled upon us pro-choicers’ dirty little secret.
It was bad enough when people knew we were all just degenerate liberals, dreaded atheists, or — god forbid — baby-hating feminists. But now the president of Human Life [...]
Making that choice a choice
Posted in Democrats, Feminism, Framing, Journalism, Reproductive Rights on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times has an article today titled “Democrats shift approach on abortion.” Here is how it opens.
Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have begun to adopt some of the language and policy goals of the antiabortion movement.
The rest of the [...]
One more reason to ban all abortions in Ohio: Because rape babies are just too awesome!
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Reproductive Rights, What the Fuck? on July 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Having a rapist’s baby is so empowering. I mean, imagine you’re raped, right? And then you find out you’re pregnant. Sure, you might feel hurt, angry, depressed, scared, worried about how to take care of the child, etc. You might even consider having an abortion. Or giving the baby up for adoption. But think [...]
link farming …
Posted in Advertising, Pop Culture, Reproductive Rights on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
… because I’ve already written about 27 billion posts today but I like these posts too much not to say something …
OldManCoyote compares radical anti-abortion activists to Islamic terrorists
And before all you radical anti-choicers get your Jack Bauer underoos in a bunch and accuse me of comparing you to terrorists, let me clarify: [...]
Plan B sales double
Posted in Reproductive Rights, Sex, Times Being as They Are ... on July 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh goodness. Wingnut outrage over this in 3 … 2 … 1 ….
Nevermind that this is actually a very good thing. It means Plan B is making a difference. It means more women are probably preventing unwanted pregnancies, preventing abortions, etc. But you know it’s gonna be all, “See? See?!? Women are having more [...]
You know how I know abortion causes breast cancer? ‘Cause these studies me and my friends did say so!
Posted in Reproductive Rights on July 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Ugh. So Kerry Howley pointed out, in a post about the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ not-wrong-but-somewhat-off warnings about the dangers of abortion, that childbirth actually has a higher mortality rate for women than abortion. And then the crazies come out of the woodwork. John Kindley (who appears to be an abortion-post troll) suggests [...]
this is obviously completely about loving babies and not at all about attention-mongering
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Reproductive Rights on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh dear god (meant in an extended eyeroll kind of way, not an exclamatory kind of way).
An Ohio legislator just introduced a bill that would ban ALL abortions in the state with absolutely no exceptions:
Less than three months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure, a [...]
Planned Parenthood’s new slogan in Minn.: “building relationships to create future abortion customers”
Posted in Reproductive Rights, What the Fuck? on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m always utterly flabbergasted when I learn that people really believe (or at least purport to believe) that Planned Parenthood is an evil cabal that actually wants to increase the number of abortions. To hear anti-choicers talk about Planned Parenthood sometime, you’d think all PP did was provide abortions. Maybe even in a drive through, [...]
framing smackdown
Posted in Framing, Reproductive Rights on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the comments of a previous post, there’s been some discussion of framing and abortion-debate-terminology. Nothing earth-shattering or new here — Girl From the South says framing is just “a strategic form of name-calling,” I disagree. We all discuss the terms “pro-life” versus “anti-choice.” I dislike when people accuse me of engaging in unfair framing [...]
I hear in Alaska they’re raising the per-fetus rate to 10 cents
Posted in Reproductive Rights on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is perhaps the best single line I read yesterday:
That’s one thing I really don’t get- WHY would we liberals WANT people to have abortions? Do they think we get credit for each fetus, like when you sell back glass bottles at the grocery store?
— on the strange persevering rumor that reproductive health [...]
framing anti-choice concern
Posted in Reproductive Rights on June 18, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Yesterday, the Stacy Zallie foundation took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post. In honor of father’s day, the organization decided to trot out some anti-choice doublethink about how giving women reproductive options actually harms women. To be fair, the group doesn’t say whether or not it supports anti-choice legal policies. It is, ostensibly, [...]
Lybrel more of a marketing tactic than a novel idea (pills without periods not exactly new)
Posted in Advertising, Blogging Bandwagon, Family Values, Reproductive Rights, Stupid Media Frenzy... on May 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ABC News:As 21st century women dominate the universities and continue to climb the executive ladder, and metro-sexual men explore their feminine side, it’s harder to define what it means to be a woman
In the mildly frustrating category of the week … why is everyone so up in arms about this “new” birth control that allows [...]
the sex lives of others
Posted in Reproductive Rights, Sex on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes when my favorite feminist bloggers point out that a lot of anti-abortion concern for the sanctity of the fetus is really just hatred of women and sex, other people get a little touchy. They like to accuse people making this point of being hysterical and overreacting, or dismiss them as angry man-haters looking for [...]
My problem with Ron Paul:
Posted in Libertarians, Reproductive Rights on May 20, 2007 | 19 Comments »
He’s all about “personal liberty,” but on his Web site, just a few paragraphs under “Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital,” it makes a point to note that he is anti-choice on abortion. Leading advocate for freedom and personal liberty, except where women are concerned?
And for [...]
well, pulling out is still free
Posted in Education, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sex on March 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Check out this article about a huge hike in the cost of birth control at colleges. I direct you to it as I almost missed it entirely. It’s in the ‘Student News’ section of the Education section of today’s CNN website. Even though, per the article, 39% of undergraduate women are on oral contraception, [...]
Giuliani debates in TNR
Posted in Reproductive Rights, Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In a poll released late last week, Rudy Giuliani (40 percent) dominated John McCain (18 percent) among Republican primary voters.
Interesting four-part series at The New Republic about whether or not Giuliani is a viable Republican presidential candidate. Michael Tomasky, editor at large of The American Prospect, starts off saying there’s no chance:
We must never [...]
take too much of this abortion drug — it’s the law!
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Reproductive Rights on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After years of Gov. Taft and Ken Blackwell and all the other jackasses who were running the fine state of Ohio, it’s so nice to finally hear good news coming out of the state on a semi-regular basis. From NARAL Ohio:
On Tuesday the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Governor Strickland is dropping his predecessor’s fight [...]
yay, CVS
Posted in Reproductive Rights on February 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Plan B Flyer in the 15th & K St. CVS {Via Metroblogging DC}
Doesn’t it strike you as odd, though, that emergency contraception is now available over-the-counter, but regular contraception is not? I guess that’s as much a pharmaceutical-company-profit thing than it is a political thing, though.
Category Cloud
-
Recent Comments
Archives
