Tag: Abortion
President Obama Has A Primary Opponent!
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry plans to run against President Obama in the Iowa caucuses. This plan could not possibly fail.
From The Department Of Inappropriate Analogies
Rick Santorum thinks it’s appropriate to compare being African-American to being a fetus.
I Really Tried To Ignore Douthat’s Column
You’re probably destined to write a post about something you go to bed thinking about. Here’s what kept me up last night: In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it […]
Another Reason To Vote
As the mother of a teenager daughter I’m always keeping my eye on family planning issues, so Colorado’s Amendment 62 caught my attention. Personhood Colorado’s website acknowledges that Amendment 62 would ban all abortions, without exceptions for rape, incest or to save a mother’s life. It also would ban stem cell research and birth control […]
Conservatives Come Out Against Birth Control – Guess They’re Okay With Teen Pregnancy And Abortion
We’ve always known the Conservative stance on sex had more to do with controling women than with preventing unwanted pregnancy and abortion. And now they’ve proved it once again. Amanda sums it up: In a common sense world, there would be no controversy over including contraception in the slate of preventive services that the federal […]
Sister Margaret
Sister Margaret was a senior administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. A 27-year-old mother of four arrived late last year, in her third month of pregnancy. According to local news reports and accounts from the hospital and some of its staff members, the mother suffered from a serious complication called pulmonary hypertension. That created a high probability that the strain of continuing pregnancy would kill her. “In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” the hospital said in a statement.
Guess what happened to Sister Margaret.
Red And Blue Families
I keep stumbling across articles on Naomi Cahn and June Carbone’s new book, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture. I will be picking it up today. I’m not trying to score points in this post – although points will be scored. I’d rather discuss the disconnect between Red and […]
Oklahoma Doctors Get Okay To Lie To Patients
Angry Mouse at kos points out the crazy. The second measure passed into law Tuesday protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth defects. The intent of the bill is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to […]
Not To Be Outdone By Arizona… Oklahoma Brings On The Crazy
Via kos: OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma Senate approved several bills Monday that opponents say would make it more difficult or uncomfortable for women to get abortions, including one that would require women seeking the procedures early in their pregnancies to undergo an invasive form of ultrasound…[The law] would require doctors to use a vaginal probe in […]
Who Speaks For Me On This Issue?
Exhibit one on why we need to have more representation for women in government: abortion restrictions in the health care reform bill. A group of “pro-life” (which means life begins at conception and ends at birth) Democrats were willing to deny 32 million already existing people health insurance because the bill fails to outlaw a […]
I Have The World’s Smallest Violin
My violin weeps for Bart Stupak. He went from the U.S.’s most important Congressman to irrelevant. He went to a publication that has only the Democratic party’s best interest in mind, the National Review Online to have a pity party complain: Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a […]
Conservative Disconnect On Government Intervention – Marriage vs Abortion
It’s no secret that when it comes to abortion the Conservative/Republican motto is the more government intervention the better. Mandatory waiting periods for abortions? Fine with them. A measure “that would require a woman be given a description of ultrasound images of her unborn child and be offered those images before getting an abortion?” Why […]
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