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 Senators ask Komen Foundation to reverse decision
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 fetus resulting from rape. Not even if the pregnant woman were his daughter. The woman must “make the best out of … Continue reading Santorum: Raped? Pregnant? It’s a gift
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 Tulane professor rips Perry and his sonogram law
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 Happy Birthday, Roe v. Wade
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 Focus on the Family ad: Part II
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 Continue reading Petition against Super Bowl’s anti-choice ad
