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The right to choose is more than a slogan. It’s the right to be treated with dignity as people face some of the most intimate and difficult moments in life.
Archive for the ‘Abortion’ Category
November 1st, 2012
August 23rd, 2012
Category: Abortion, Intellectual disability
I don’t believe in screaming about abortion. I will just say that I find the GOP platform–and Romney and Ryan’s positions here–both extreme and inhumane.
August 20th, 2012
Category: Abortion, Campaign 2012, Conservatism, Moral philosophy, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
Especially from the Republican side. 1) If you believe, as the Catholic church does and most conservatives do, that abortion is murder, then it is irrelevant whether a woman becomes pregnant through rape or through consensual sex. At the moment of conception, there is a human being with human rights attached to it. It really [...]
February 25th, 2012
Category: Abortion, Birth Control, Feminism, Health Care, Illinois, Law Notes, Politics and Leadership, public health, Women
Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy has introduced a proposal requiring men who ask their doctors for Viagra to sit through a film showing treatment of its most common side effects, including that mythical four-hour erection. Apparently it’s not a pretty sight. Her proposed amendment to the Ultrasound Opportunity Act (obviously named by Eric Blair) parallels [...]
February 19th, 2012
Category: Abortion, Affordable Care Act, Intellectual disability, Religion and Politics, Republican Party
I admit that I’ve found Mr. Santorum’s unlikely rise rather amusing. His recent comments about sensitive matters of disability, however, have gotten me seriously ticked off. His candidacy will eventually collapse of its own weight. I fear he’ll do real damage before he goes.
February 16th, 2012
An anecdote underscores why liberals will win the contraceptive fight, and why the Church is so misguided to press its particulat views in broader public policy.
March 30th, 2011
… in rural Bangaladesh and in Indiana. The links between religious fanaticism and misogyny are strong, no matter which holy book the fanatics pretend to read.
February 5th, 2011
Category: Abortion
Planned Parenthood is once again the target of Congressional attack. No organization has done more to promote reproductive autonomy or maternal and child health.
November 15th, 2009
Category: Abortion, Health Care
The RNC is dropping abortion coverage from hits heath insurance. Is that saving them any money?
November 11th, 2009
Category: Abortion
Even if the damned thing becomes law, why won’t insurance companies offer retroactive abortion-coverage riders? Termination is cheaper than carrying to term.