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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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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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Planned Parenthood Summit, Day One

by Cara July 21, 2008

As you may remember, Planned Parenthood recently endorsed Barack Obama for president. Of course Obama is a very busy man at the moment, so he couldn’t personally make the summit (though he did last year) — but he did send along a video message. That was a pretty sweet and energizing way to open things [...]

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Bush Official: Doctor’s Right to Withold Information Greater Than Patient’s Right to Receive It

by Cara March 26, 2008

Surprise, surprise: the Bush Administration thinks that Ob/Gyns should not only have the right to deny women basic medical care like abortion, emergency contraception or regular old birth control, but they should also be able to refuse to provide a referral to another doctor for these services. Last Friday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary [...]

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You know who I fucking hate?

by Cara January 28, 2008

Bush. I know, I’m just full of surprises, aren’t I? Take the unimpressed face of Barack Obama, multiply it by the unimpressed face of Hillary Clinton and throw in a pinch of the unimpressed faces of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi, and you’ll get an idea of what my unimpressed face looks like right about [...]

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Stop Richard Honaker

by Cara January 14, 2008

Peter Rothberg recently wrote a column about radical Bush federal judge nominee Richard Honaker. I had been meaning to write about Richard Honaker, but it slipped my mind — probably because his nomination has received so little media attention, which is specifically why it’s so important to write about it. I thank Peter for reminding [...]

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Update on the Global Gag Rule

by Cara December 12, 2007

Some of you may remember that the Senate repealled the Global Gag Rule a few months back. They couldn’t get the House to go along with them, but they did work out a compromise — one that is much, much better than the current situation — whereby U.S. funds would still not go towards overseas [...]

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This Week in Dem-ocracy

by Cara December 7, 2007

So, the Dems are apparently dropping the new hate crime legislation that would protect against crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability. They’re afraid that it will block the Pentagon policy bill that it’s attached to — and the hate crime bill is only attached because it apparently couldn’t get anywhere on its own. [...]

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Teen Pregnancy by the Numbers

by Cara December 6, 2007

Here’s some crazy news (h/t): U.S. teen birth rates have risen for the first time since 1991. The birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, according to a report issued Wednesday, the first such increase since 1991. The finding surprised scholars and fueled a debate about [...]

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Hilarious Remark of the Week

by Cara November 27, 2007

Maybe the fact that I find this so damn funny is mere proof that I have a fucked up sense of humor. Or maybe it’s just a sign of how very gone the chance of hope in our political process is. Regardless, I read this last night and literally laughed so hard that I cried. [...]

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