August 2008

In WA, Previous Victims Can Testify Against Serial Rapists

by Cara August 25, 2008

Excellent news out of Washington State for rape survivors and prosecutors.  In a case where an accused person has alleged prior victims, those prior victims can testify during trials in order to help establish a pattern of abuse, even when the statute of limitations has expired for that particular crime. Before, prosecutors could raise a [...]

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More ICE Detention Atrocities

by Cara August 23, 2008

Last week, The NY Times had an article about Hiu Lui Ng, a man who died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after being refused medical care.  Ng had no criminal record.  He overstayed his visa and at one point he applied for political asylum. And he was in the process [...]

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You Name It, Women Are To Blame For It

by Cara August 22, 2008

This has to be the shoddiest study I’ve ever seen — after all, the researchers acknowledge that they questioned women about their moods after they were diagnosed in order to find out if their “negative thinking” had affected their development of cancer long before that diagnosis. Do you see how little sense that makes? To [...]

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Bush Officially Proposes Anti-Abortion DHHS Rule

by Cara August 22, 2008

Oh shit. You know that potential DHHS rule that pro-choice organizations and feminists have been going on about for a month now? The one that says organizations which receive government funding cannot discriminate against those who choose to exercise their “conscience” on matters of abortion — and redefines “abortion” to cover hormonal contraception? Well, yesterday [...]

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Because I Need Cheering Up

by Cara August 21, 2008

Zack wins incoherent troll of the day for his comments on this post: persoanlly its a commerical and if this commerical offends you in anyway you deff need to get a life and its not the womans uterus its the torso and if you think this commerical is degrading woman its a very cool comerical [...]

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Woman With Muscular Dystrophy Had to Crawl Off Plane

by Cara August 21, 2008

This is outrageous and angered me to my very core: On July 20th, Julianna’s (delayed) Delta flight landed in Atlanta at 7:30pm, with a connecting flight scheduled for 8:05pm. Julianna, who has muscular dystrophy, missed the connecting flight because nobody came with a wheelchair until 8:05—the same time the connecting flight took off. To make [...]

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Link Round Up

by Cara August 20, 2008

There’s a bunch of stuff hanging around that I’ve finally admitted I won’t get the time to write about. And a few other things I wanted to share. What About Our Daughters has a post on the sexual exploitation and violence committed against young black teenage girls. Via FRIDA comes this excellent Washington Post Op-Ed [...]

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What Women Want

by Cara August 19, 2008

I think this project is absolutely amazing, so please do check it out and take part: Tired of being talked about this election season? Done with being represented by skewed polls and stereotypes? This Is What Women Want is your chance to cut through the spin and tell the media, the candidates and the world [...]

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Warped Perceptions of “Pro-Choice”

by Cara August 19, 2008

I have to say that I’m getting really annoyed with claims that the new Democratic Party Platform is purposely appealing to conservative, anti-choice voters because of the language it contains supporting a woman’s right to have a child. Like this article from The New Republic, which is on the website’s front page called “Why Pro-Lifers [...]

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Peter Hitchens is a Piece of Shit

by Cara August 18, 2008

Thanks to Sunless Nick for pointing me to Melissa’s response to this jaw-dropping piece of published misogyny (trigger warning). You should read Melissa’s response, because it’s good and I haven’t got the strength today.  I will say three (relatively) quick things. Firstly, I’m really sick of this idea that one can put “there’s no excuse [...]

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