Shakesville has a post up pointing to the official GOP policy platform site, http://www.gopplatform2008.com. The Republican Party platform includes the following: We strongly support the long-held policy of the Republican Party known as the “Mexico City policy,” which prohibits federal… Read More ›
abortion
Why I haven’t blogged on the Victorian abortion decriminalisation bill
Because Helen at Cast Iron Balcony covered all the issues so well that I had nothing to add – read it there.
Olympics Special: Forced Abortion in China
The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony is about to start.
In all the protests about Tibet and about internet censorship (important issues both), there is an enormous humanitarian crisis in China at risk of getting pushed into the background. That crisis is the systematised, legalised, horrific violence against women and girls.
Through Olympics time, I’m planning to post roundups and linkdumps on a series of these topics. Be warned – they’re all likely to contain triggers.
First up: forced abortion.
More gruesome graphics
Yet another forced-birther group: If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America! To hammer their point home, Survivors has… Read More ›
“Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean it’s yours.”: the political misappropriation of personal pain
Regular readers may have noticed that I have a tendency to start serieses that I don’t finish. Well, I’ve finally got a second installment in 52 Acts of Political Correctness. The original 52something meme is here – do feel free… Read More ›
Refusing to be ashamed
Audrey Apple, in her non-alliterative RL persona, has written an online column for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail where she freely discusses her experience of two abortions as simple relief, and that she refuses to be shamed for not feeling guilt or… Read More ›
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
Melbourne Anglican Diocese supports the decriminalisation of abortion
Props to the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne! The Bendigo Advertiser reports that they have put in their submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission‘s examination of the possible decriminalisation of abortion. And the Church is in favour. An all-woman taskforce… Read More ›
But what would they sing?
Grooms for life: Denise Noe has a plan to reduce abortions by recruiting godly single men to marry knocked-up whores who will thereupon resile from their baby-murd’rin’ ways and fawn upon the godbothering grooms in gratitude thereafter ’til death do… Read More ›
Fetal Brain Development: Myths and Disinformation
In her discussion on the NYT article I blogged earlier, Jill of Feministe says: An interesting thing about growing up and living in the United States for your entire life, as I have, is that you really do believe all… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 