Archive for the ‘abortion’ Category
1 February, 2010
On of the things I admire* about the radical religious right wackos is their ability to get you coming or going. First, they fight tooth and nail against any possibility of teaching our children actual facts about reproduction, sex, and all of the various ways to prevent pregnancy (abstinence, condoms, birth control pills, sponges, aspirin, IUDs). Then, if a girl and boy do what teenagers do and (because they have been lied to about the effectiveness of birth control) she gets a little bit preggers, they make it as difficult as possible to get a legal abortion (by intimidation (of doctors, nurses and patients at women’s health clinics) or violence (up to (and including) murder).
Out in Utah (a bastion of progressive thought), a new law has just passed out of committee. The “bill tightens the definition of what an abortion is and removes a legal immunity for women if they intentionally try to have an illegal abortion.” (this (and all others (except where noted)) is from KCPW‘s website). Read the rest of this entry ?
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Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, crime, GOP, health care, religion, Religious Abuse, Republican Party, sex, sex education, the law | 38 Comments »
17 September, 2009
It surprises me (why, I don’t know, since it has happened often enough) when an anecdotal experience from my (rather boring) youth serves to perfectly illustrate something happening in the world today. For instance, take this story of narrow-minded authoritarian zealotry: Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Authoritarianism, Bible, Christianity, Church and State, god, Me, religion, Religious Abuse, sex, sex education, sexually transmitted disease | 17 Comments »
14 September, 2009
I have some weird friends. They’re good people, but some of them are severely disconnected from reality. I find myself trying to explain things calmly and rationally. And with no effect.
I’ve told her that yes, Obama really is an American. His mother is a citizen, therefore, no matter where he was born (that would be Hawai’i (an actual state of the United States)) he would still be a US citizen and no, he does not kill babies. I’ve told him (yeah, more than one) that high tax rates on the rich, massive public investment in infrastructure, and strong labour unions have, historically, lead to much more rapid economic expansion than supply side economics. And I have, patiently, explained to both of them that ‘death panels’ already exist — they are run by for-profit insurance companies.
And here is a case in point: Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, death, god, GOP, health care, regulation, Republican Party, sex, teabagging | 11 Comments »
25 July, 2009
There seems to be a great deal of ammunition showing up on the internet this week regarding the FoFers*. A law introduced in Ohio would take a women’s reproductive decision completely and totally out of her hands. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Abstinence, Authoritarianism, Bible, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, god, GOP, Politics, Religious Abuse, Republican Party, sex, sex education, sexually transmitted disease | 16 Comments »
23 July, 2009
The aptly nicknamed Foes of Fucking (FoF) (I though that PhillyChief coined that, but it may have been the Grumpy Lion) claim that their goal is to eliminate abortions. The radical Christian and political right, of course, couch it in family terms: what about the children? We have to protect the children!
BULLSHIT!
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Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Authoritarianism, Bible, choice, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, god, GOP, health care, religion, Religious Abuse, sex, sex education, sexism, sexually transmitted disease | 28 Comments »
22 July, 2009
By this time, most of you (at the very least, the six regular readers I have) should know that I am a naturalist. Which means, of course, that I do not by into the Genesis version of the creation of the world, the universe, life, or the myriad species inhabiting our earth. And I view evolution as an established fact (it is only called a theory because we do not yet (and probably will never) know all of the exact details regarding every event).
One of the reasons that I found evolution rather boring in the science classes I took was a neglect of sex. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Christianity, Church and State, Darwin, dinosaur, Evolution, faith, gay marriage, gay rights, GLBT, god, GOP, Politics, religion, Religious Abuse, sex, sex education, sexually transmitted disease | 22 Comments »
5 July, 2009
The Republican Party, in a rather successful attempt to convince poor and middle class Americans to vote against their self-interest, have embrace the idea of family values. They are anti-choice (because women are made to have babies), anti-birth-control (because if the sluts want to have sex, they damn well better get pregnant (otherwise, they might do it for pleasure)), anti-sex-education (because if you teach kids the facts about how their bodies work, they might get the wild idea that they can control their own fertility), anti-pornography (because we certainly don’t want humans to think that sex might be enjoyable), anti-GLBT (because we should ignore the Levitican proscriptions about shellfish and mixed fabrics and embrace the anti-homosexual message (without, of course, cherry-picking the Bible) and anti-freedom-of-though (because rational thought is the enemy of faith). Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Abstinence, abstinence-only education, Authoritarianism, Bible, born again, Christianity, Church and State, conservatives, faith, gay marriage, gay rights, GLBT, god, GOP, human rights, hypocrisy, Predators, religion, Religious Abuse, sex education, sexually transmitted disease | 29 Comments »
29 June, 2009
On May 31st, the warnings of the Department of Homeland Security regarding the possibility of increased activity by far-right extremist groups, including religious and nativist ones. Dr. Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country willing to defy the repeated threats and attacks by Christian extremists and provide a necessary procedure, was murdered by a 51-year-old zealot. Despite repeated denials by members of Operation Rescue, many links were found between this right-wing terrorist and the Kansas leadership of OR. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in abortion, Authoritarianism, conservatives, Doctor Tiller, Faux News, Fox News, god, health care | 3 Comments »
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