Did you know if you use birth control… you will have teeny tiny little fetuses embedded into your uterus? Yup! Those little phantom kicks you feel on occasion, those are actually the ghost of fetus past which you killed off by taking the proper precautions of using birth control to prevent pregnancy. The shock! The [...]
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Abortion in America: The Facts on the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
As we approach the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Guttmacher Institute has created a series of info-graphics to clarify the facts about abortion in our country. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, I have to hope that graphics like these will help us to have a more honest conversation about birth [...]
I’m a Swing Voter: Pro-Choice Rhetoric is Sicking Me Out
This is the third in a series of posts about why I find myself, a historical Democrat, becoming conflicted about who I will vote for this year. I guess I’m a swing voter. I’m worried about footing the bill for Baby Boomer retirement, I’m still not over the fact that Hillary Clinton lost and then [...]
I Saw President Obama Live (and I’m Still Apathetic) – Part Two
So I had a few things to say the other day about how I felt after seeing President Obama speak at Colorado State University. But after hearing the speech, I have a few more things to say: Vagipolitics And women, oh dear women. Let’s not be histrionic about our reproductive rights. Mitt Romney has no power over [...]
Women’s Stake in the Health Care Debate
“The Republican platform and the speaker lineup for the Republican National Convention demonstrate a fundamental disregard for women and women’s health.” Spoken by the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, we can safely assume that the speaker is most interested in reproductive health policy. I argue that too often we conflate attention to and [...]
Chris Christie Says It’s ‘Silly’ to Spend Time Talking Contraception
The contraception debate has caused women to sit up and take notice of the presidential race, if they weren’t already paying attention. I realize it’s a little hard to get excited about this primary season. But mess with a woman’s reproductive rights and you stir up a hornet’s nest. It has served as fuel for [...]
There’s More Than One Way to Medicate a Vagina
Whatever happened to good old American ingenuity? What happened to having a back-up plan? All of this bickering about vaginas and amendments, about who’s getting calls from the President and who’s not, about who started cursing at women first and who just followed suit, is missing the point. There’s more than one way to skin [...]
Stop Speaking for Me
It seems all sorts of folks have been speaking on my behalf about a few things. And I am referring to myself in the general “just your average mom” kind of way. As a typical, average mom who believes in equality, choice and, well, love (I know, sooooo feminist of me), these folks seem to [...]
A Practicing Catholic Sends a Letter to Her Bishop
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog for Daily Kos outlining my discomfort around the Catholic Bishops’ attacks against the Affordable Care Act because of a mandate to cover birth control. Since then, I snail-mailed a letter to Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of Oakland, California, in the same contribution envelope I was sent [...]
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