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Suggestion for Komen Foundation damage control
Nancy Brinker is founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. She has done a lot of good for American women in her sister’s name. However, in announcing her foundation will no longer issue grant money to Planned Parenthood, another organization that has done a lot of good for American women, … Continue reading
AP confirms Handel’s role in Komen’s Planned Parenthood decision
Regarding the role of Susan G. Komen Foundation’s vice president Karen Handel in the recent decision to cut grant funding to Planned Parenthood, The Associated Press is now reporting: A source with direct knowledge of decision-making at Komen’s headquarters in Dallas gave a different account, saying the grant-making criteria were adopted with the deliberate intention … Continue reading
Senators ask Komen Foundation to reverse decision
Twenty-six U.S. Senators have signed a letter to the Susan G. Komen Foundation asking its officers to reverse their decision to withdraw grant money from Planned Parenthood. The letter, as reported by the Washington Post: Dear Ambassador Brinker, We write to express our disappointment with Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to cut funding … Continue reading
Santorum: Raped? Pregnant? It’s a gift
Just when I thought GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum couldn’t impress me as any more extreme, I saw this video on the Huffington Post. His idea of right to life includes not aborting a baby resulting from rape. Not even if the pregnant woman were his daughter. The woman must “make the best out of … Continue reading
Tulane professor rips Perry and his sonogram law
At 7 pm tonight, with nothing better on the TV schedule, I switched to MSNBC to watch Rachel Maddow. I usually don’t watch MSNBC; I find them so aggressively anti-Republican that even when I agree with them in principle, I detest the way they espouse it. Maddow, however, is refreshing in her calm, pleasant demeanor; … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Roe v. Wade
The Roe v. Wade decision was handed down 38 years ago today. In it the Supreme Court said all women have the right to privacy in making medical decisions for themselves, including abortion if they so choose. In the 21st Century, despite all the advances of medicine, science, law, and education, there are still some … Continue reading
Focus on the Family ad: Part II
Y’all remember back during the Super Bowl, there was a big flap about the evangelical group Focus on the Family running an ad with Tim Tebow and his mom? Pro choicers like me got really hot about the idea that an anti-abortion ad would be accepted, much less broadcast, during the Super Bowl. The ad … Continue reading
Petition against Super Bowl’s anti-choice ad
As an addendum to the previous post, here are several petitions protesting the Focus on the Family anti-choice ad scheduled to run during the Super Bowl: Women’s Media Center Care2 Petitionsite
Super Bowl wrong place for abortion ad
Abortion and the Super Bowl. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Yep, CBS has sold a 30-second Super Bowl spot to the evangelical, anti-abortion, anti-gay activist group Focus on the Family. I suppose they think it’s relevant and acceptable because it features a football player, Tim Tebow, and his mom. Wrong! The Super … Continue reading
Roe v Wade: 37 years and still fighting
The Roe v Wade decision was handed down 37 years ago today and, unbelievably, women are still having to fight to keep this very personal and very basic right — the right to a safe, legal abortion. In the 21st Century, despite all the advances of medicine, science, law, and education, there are still those … Continue reading
Don’t let the Senate ban abortion coverage
The health care reform debate has moved into the Senate now, and so has the abortion issue. The bill that passed the House contained the infamous Stupak Amendment that would deny millions of woman any insurance coverage for abortion, a legal medical procedure in the U.S. The health care reform debate has not stopped for … Continue reading
Health care reform: for men only
First came the Stupak Amendment. Now come the new mammogram recommendations. Suddenly I’m feeling like the goal here is doing away with health care for women, period. Women do cost more to insure, after all, with all their abortions (we’re all just dying to run out and get one, you know) and mammograms and reproductive … Continue reading
Stupak: canary in the coal mine
On the Chris Matthews Show this morning, the panelists seemed to think the Stupak Amendment is not a big deal because a relatively small number of women have abortions every year and the Democrats are trying to bring health care to millions. What planet are they living on? Who are they listening to? Stupak is … Continue reading
Late amendment strips abortion coverage
The Stupak-Pitts Amendment, an eleventh-hour addition to the health care reform bill passed yesterday by the U.S. House, prevents any plans in the proposed health insurance exchange from receiving federal subsidies if they cover abortion, and prohibits abortion coverage in the new public option. In other words, millions of women will be denied coverage for … Continue reading
As ye sow …
The anti-abortion radicals have promulgated a lot a violence in America in recent years, usually directed not at people they know personally but at strangers with whom they disagree. It doesn’t take much to imagine what would happen if everyone went out and shouted down, blockaded, bombed, and even killed people they disagree with. Political, … Continue reading
Putting patients first
I was deeply saddened yesterday to hear that Dr. George Tiller’s family had decided to close his Wichita, Kans., women’s clinic. Certainly no one could blame them. After years of controversy, harassment, and violence, Tiller was murdered last week by an anti-abortion activist. As a family, they must have felt they could give no more. … Continue reading
By their deeds, we shall know them
Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed today during Sunday services at his church in Wichita, Kansas. He was married, the father of four, and the grandfather of ten. Tiller performed controversial late-term abortions at his Wichita clinic and was called “murderer” by his anti-abortion detractors. Now one of them has murdered the “murderer.” “Pro-life,” … Continue reading
Using their indoor voices
With more grace, tact, and diplomacy than the other principals managed to display this week, President Obama delivered his commencement address today to Notre Dame’s Class of 2009. The controversy surrounding his appearance had risen to fever pitch. A pro-choice advocate was going to speak at the nation’s preeminent Catholic university! (Gasp!) University supporters were … Continue reading
Determined Obama hits the ground running
The UK’s Guardian today published an interesting, detailed list of Barack Obama’s activities during his first 100 hours in office. It’s a good read; I have to admire the man who actually lived through it, doing everything on the list. Among the items I most enjoyed: 4 Then the words: “We reject as false the … Continue reading
Why I’m voting for Kerry
I’m voting for John Kerry. Why? I’ll try to keep it simple. I have several issues that usually decide elections for me: the environment and women’s rights (pro-choice, not pro-abortion). For me those issues have never been negotiable. I almost voted for Bush the first time. He seemed moderate enough, although not particularly qualified to … Continue reading
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