Finally. A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide. This is what happens when your platform is based […]
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A. Picazo: The Assault On Planned Parenthood: A Long Campaign Against Reproductive Rights
In 2011, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, a move deemed necessary to ensure no taxpayer dollars were used on abortion despite existing federal legislation which prohibits funds granted under Title X from paying for such services. This vote, a “culmination of a
Continue readingA. Picazo: The Assault On Planned Parenthood: A Long Campaign Against Reproductive Rights
In 2011, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, a move deemed necessary to ensure no taxpayer dollars were used on abortion despite existing federal legislation which prohibits funds granted under Title X from paying for such services. This vote, a “culmination of a
Continue readingbastard.logic: Jessica Valenti on Why Feminists Are So ‘Angry’: “It’s not that I’m angry, it’s that I’m exhausted.”
Preach: Transcript here (h/t). Filed under: Feminism, feminisms, health care, pro-choice, reproductive freedom Tagged: abortion, contraception, Feminism, Jessica Valenti, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice
Continue readingLeft Over: Why I AM Freaking Out at the Possibility of Romney…
Why I’m not freaking out about the idea of a Mitt Romney presidency I’m not complacent: bad things would happen. But I also have faith that, despite partisan politics, America arcs toward progress – a blog from Ana-Marie Cox posted in the Guardian online Nov. 5, 2012 Well, glad your
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Women in the United States
If it happens down south, you know who is next in line. Support this video, reblog it, post it everywhere. The rights of women are threatened, take action and don’t let the bad guys (aka republicans) win. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom,
Continue readingBrian Lilley Apparently Has Problems With Women Having Access To Health Care
Ol’ Brian is livid, I tell you, boys ‘n’ girls, just livid! He must be still smarting from Justin Trudeau showing Senator Brazeau who’s boss in the boxing ring last week-end. Nah! He’s always been that wingnutty. Brian’s latest beef at the silly Lilley pad? A large Planned Parenthood complex
Continue readingArt Threat: Step Right Up to See the GOP’s Amazing War on Women
Mother Jones’ illustrator Zina Saunders takes on the GOP’s oppressive and backwards stance on women in her illustrated political cartoon this week, in which you are invited to step right up and watch the greatest circus on earth – the 2012 Republican presidential campaign. Watch it over at Mother Jones’.
Continue readingArt Threat: Doonesbury “Shaming Room” too much for sensitive newspapers
Last week several newspapers censored the first of a series of Doonesbury comics addressing the current climate and discussion about women’s reproductive rights (specifically, in this case, abortion). The Center for Reproductive Rights has compiled a list of more than 60 newspapers who chose not to publish the strip, as
Continue readingknitnut.net: I love public outrage
Sometimes I feel bad about how hard it is to change the world. It seems that change for the worse happens so much more quickly and easily than change for the better. It feels like we’re fighting a losing battle, because all the power and money is concentrated on the
Continue readingSusan G. Komen has a job opening. Karen Handel booted?
Psst. Know anybody who knows anything about PR, handling the public and not creating shit storms? Komen is looking for a new “Director of Public Policy”, likely to replace the “Senior Vice President of Public Policy”, the lovely Karen Handel, whose talent for mishandling PR and creating shit storms is
Continue readingLouisiana Republican falls for The Onion’s "Planned Parenthood opens $8 Billion Abortionplex" story
You have to be a really far-gone wingnut to fall for The Onion jokery. But if the subject is abortion, as the recent Komen-Planned Parenthood kerfuffle has shown us, there is no limit to the idiocy on the right. Check out this congressman from Louisiana, a certain John Fleming, who
Continue readingRoss Douthat brings out the last refuge of a scoundrel defense. Blames media for Komen scandal.
Ross Douthat is the New York Times angry young evangelical blogger, brought in to balance the Washington Post’s progressive blogging voices, Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein. Running out of cogent arguments against the grass roots uprising the Susan G. Komen foundation’s slip into politics and selective misogyny, the right wing has
Continue readingThe WATB reaction from the right over the grass roots push back over Komen’s political coming out
Who’s goose stepping now, WSJ and National Review? One of the most amusing repercussions of the Komen implosion and the causal reaction of hundreds of thousands of individual voices, including bloggers and some of the media, to Komen’s actions towards Planned Parenthood is the whining and accusations of ‘gangsterism’, ‘goose stepping’ and
Continue readingFallout from the Komen disaster. New-found power for pro-choice voices.
Sitting back after the dust has settled on Susan G. Komen’s awkward about-face (which is actually no about-face at all but a bit of temporary cover), one thing has become clear. Komen has given back the voice of the pro-choice movement, too long drowned out by the money and loud
Continue readingLast but not Least, the Predictable Whinefest
Fetus fetishists whining and crying victim because they didn’t get their way with Komen/Planned Parenthood? Now whoever coulda seen that coming!? K-Lo breaks out the violins on Twitter: But not before the deranged SUZANNE had added her dulcet tones to the rising tide of whine: Oh well, I suppose it
Continue readingKomen Caves! Switches decision on Planned Parenthood. Ezra Klein: not so fast.
Wow. This kind of switch rarely happens. Note that such about faces are rarely for altruistic purposes. They usually reveal an untenable position that can no longer be held (aka too many lies to cover up). Brinker was caught in a lie. Only time will tell if Komen can ever recover
Continue readingThe ever shifting winds at the Susan G. Komen foundation
You can usually tell a guilty person by the way that person shifts the excuses for a crime. The more the excuses change and evolve, the guiltier the person appears. The Susan G. Komen foundation is in big trouble. Not so much money-wise – it’s raking in the cash from
Continue readingSusan G. Walther-Komen soft on guns. Hard on women.
It’s OK. It’s pink! I felt a little bad feeling so much animosity towards a person, but Nancy Brinker’s reaction to her disengagement from Planned Parenthood has quickly become the stuff of history. Not the good kind mind you, but the wrong-side kind. Now I find her organization is soft
Continue readingLizz Winstead knocks it out of the park re: Komen and Planned Parenthood
Of all the posts, tweets and articles on the Komen Cave, Winstead brings the fire and the facts together in the best summation of the whole bamboozle by Brinker and co. Lizz needs to go on Fox News or CNN and debate Nancy Brinker or VP Karen Handel. So far, Komen is
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