Category Archives: Abortion & reproductive rights

The next visit…

The week after I first visited Rimutaka, I visited Arohata – the women’s prison. I’d gone to the prison half a dozen times already, to drop off books, letters, newspapers and visitors forms; I knew the prisons were different. At … Continue reading

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Clarence Thomas is Making the Rounds

I received an email from a reader about a round table on the Tavis Smiley Show. Apparently, Tavis will have a panel discussing Thomas’s book and his appearance on 60 Minutes. Panelists are Marc Morial, President and CEO of The … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Anti-feminists and their pals, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Media criticism, Race, racism and related issues, Supreme Court Issues | 3 Comments

Science Daily: Teen Girls Report Abusive Boyfriends Try To Get Them Pregnant

I’m not going to return to substantive blogging, but I’m going to experiment with doing occasional link posts, and posts that are composed entirely of quotes. Like this post.

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Pro-Life Patter

I wrote this after reading the various threads that were spurred by the late-term abortion ban. Pro-Life Patter what if he’s the next Mozart if he cures cancer could end racism have you thought about adoption what if you want … Continue reading

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International Patriarchy Sez:

Women’s deaths are a useful goad for keeping other women in line. Discuss.

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Focus On The Family Admits They Want Women Who Have Abortions To Be Hurt

Via Mahablog and Lawyers Guns And Money, I read this interesting Washington Post article about a split in the “pro-life” movement over the “Partial Birth Abortion” ban. What’s interesting is that some of the pro-lifers are admitting to the truth … Continue reading

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XKCD character: "Political debates… show how good smart people are at rationalizing."

I’d like to comment on this recent cartoon from the webcomic xkcd. This cartoon was brought up on a message board that I read and participate in, at the end of a long conversation about politics (although the point of … Continue reading

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Review: Rosita

I went to see Rosita in theHuman Rights Film Festival this weekend. Rosita’s parents were from Nicaragua, but they moved to Costa Rica to find work. Her father worked as a itinerant coffee picker, her mother sometimes joined him in … Continue reading

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Economics and the like, Feminism, sexism, etc, International issues, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 3 Comments

After This We Can Talk Welfare Reform

There are lots of things I don’t understand about this world, many of which are the number of intelligent, awesome, analytical feminists who support the Democrats. From Katha Pollit: So now you know. It really does matter who’s President and … Continue reading

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Senator Harry Reid: Democrat, Senator, Worm

From a CNN story on the Supreme Court’s upholding of the “Partial Birth” abortion ban: “A lot of us wish that Alito weren’t there and O’Connor were there,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who opposed Alito’s nomination, said. Harry … Continue reading

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