Reproductive Rights
Dr. Socks leaves the house
I’m going to be traveling for the next few days, so my internet access will be intermittent. This is an awkward time for an away mission, what with the barricades going up and the citizen militias forming, but I have no choice. There are big doings afoot which I must attend. When I get back [...]
Terry O’Neill on Stupak amendment
She done good: Hat tip to Tennessee Guerilla Women.
About that non-vacuum in which Stupak happened…
Kate Harding has a good piece in Salon that captures the PUMA-a-year-later zeitgeist we’ve been talking about here (to recap: A year later, world suddenly gets what PUMAs were talking about, House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men, and Rachel Maddow is becoming post-rational). Harding’s piece is called Face it: The Democratic Party is not [...]
Rachel Maddow is becoming post-rational
Today on Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow said that Democratic women “may revolt” over the Stupak amendment, which renders the healthcare reform bill a kind of backdoor ban on abortion. Interestingly, last year Maddow described PUMAs as “post-rational” for attempting the same thing. It was insane, Maddow said, for feminists to buck the Democratic Party. [...]
House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men
Isn’t it exciting? I know I’m excited. Earlier today, before the House began debate on the historic vote, President Obama delivered a pep talk to Congressional Democrats: “I’m absolutely confident we’ll get this done,” Obama said, according to the aide. “And when I’m in the Rose Garden signing a piece of legislation to give healthcare [...]
The life of a brave man
UPDATE: Word is leaking out that the suspect apprehended for the murder of Dr. Tiller is a 51-year-old man named Scott Roeder. A dude matching that name and description has a history of right-wingnuttery, including ties to Operation Rescue. I followed the breadcrumb trail from Democratic Underground and found Scott Roeder’s post on the Operation [...]
If Obama were a Supreme Court appointee, he’d be part of the Scalia bloc
One of the ironies of this election is the argument that, no matter how much Obama may disappoint us, we still have to vote for him in order to preserve Roe v. Wade. We must have a President Obama to appoint liberal judges to the Supreme Court! cry the possums. The problem is that Obama [...]
One week on the campaign trail with Napoleon Obama
First he alienates everybody who’s blue-collar, religious, pro-gun, and/or anti-NAFTA: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and [...]
Do feminists for Obama understand what the hell this guy is about?
This article was published last fall, and the information in it was probably available before then, but I’ve just now discovered it: Sen. Barack Obama had hired Pete Rouse for just such a moment. It was the fall of 2005, and the celebrated young senator — still new to Capitol Hill but aware of his [...]
A Catholic columnist answers the jail-time question
Matt Abbott in Catholic Online: That said, I do believe, in some cases, the abortion-seeking woman is indeed the perpetrator. She knows very well what she’s doing. She’s not coerced by anyone. Perhaps she’s even going against the wishes of her loved ones. This is the woman who should be treated as a criminal – [...]
