religious fanaticism

Anti-Choice DHHS Rule Finalized

by Cara December 19, 2008

At Feministe (where I originally intended on posting this until that jerk Jill beat me to it with a really good post), I’ve been relentlessly updating you on the proposed DHHS rule that aims to limit the availability of abortion and contraception by protecting anti-choice employees of Title X funded institutions from “discrimination” based on [...]

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SD Anti-Choicers are Sad that Women Still Have Rights

by Cara November 24, 2008

*Sniffles* I was at Planned Parenthood seven different times. I also was at the Campaign for Healthy Families’ place three times, where a young lady from Black Sheep Coffee shop brought me a cup of its great coffee on a cool day. She was a real sweetheart. But all our efforts failed. The good people [...]

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John Lennon in the News

by Cara November 23, 2008

Newsflash: The Vatican has pardoned John Lennon for saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Yeah, apparently they were still upset about that. I bet that wherever John is, he’s very pleased. After all, he was very sorry about his comments. Just look at how sorry he was: He apparently also said later: [...]

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Woman Stoned For Adultery in Somalia

by Cara October 30, 2008

Trigger Warning In Somalia, insurgents have stoned a woman to death. The woman, who relatives named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, was buried in the ground up to her neck and pelted with rocks until she was dead. The “crime” of which she was accused was adultery. The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up [...]

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More Ballot Updates: No on Prop 4

by Cara October 28, 2008

Yesterday I provided an update on anti-choice ballot initiative Measure 11 in South Dakota — today it’s time for an update on anti-choice ballot initiative Prop 4 in California. Prop 4, a piece of legislation which will appear on the ballot for the third time in four years, would instate a parental notification requirement for [...]

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Same-Sex Marriage: Violating Your Right to Free Speech

by Cara October 28, 2008

I was reading an article yesterday about the arguments being made by those on both sides of Prop 8 — the California ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage — and found this intelligent argument from those supporting the family-protecting legislation: In television advertisements, rallies, highway billboards, sermons and phone banks, supporters of Proposition 8 [...]

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South Dakota Live Action Camp

by Cara October 2, 2008

As I noted, I spent the weekend in Sioux Falls South Dakota, working with South Dakota Healthy Families to fight Initiated Measure 11, which would ban virtually all abortions in the state. You probably remember that in 2006, anti-choicers got the legislature to pass a bill that would have banned abortion, even in cases of [...]

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IMPORTANT: Time To Send Your Comments To HHS Is Running Out

by Cara September 20, 2008

I have previously written about the dangerous proposed Department of Health and Human Services rule that would endanger women’s access to reproductive health care. The rule, if instated, would allow health care workers to prevent women from knowing all of their health care options, including those regarding birth control — and would call government-funded providers [...]

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“It’s Not a Choice, It’s a Child” — Except When It’s Beneficial To Say It’s a Choice

by Cara August 30, 2008

Here’s something — one of many things — that bothers me about the Sarah Palin coverage.  (Maybe I’ll get to the others in the near future; not sure.) Right here, the NY Times says it — and they’re right, and far from the only ones who are noting it: Ms. Palin is known to conservatives [...]

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Article on Leslee Unruh

by Cara August 14, 2008

More magazine has a really fascinating profile on anti-choice super-activist, and the bane of my existence, Leslee Unruh. It’s creepy and compelling, and a little bit less enraging than I was expecting.  But I do still feel my blood pressure rising — that woman’s name to me is like a waving red cape to a [...]

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