Looking back on a good week.
Next week is going to be a humdinger for Arizona progressives in terms of the bad legislation on the agenda but this past week ended on a couple of positive notes and I think we should take a moment to appreciate them. 1. Komen/Planned Parenthood smackdown. Supporters of comprehensive (and that includes reproductive) women’s health [...]
They can keep their “charity” if that’s how it’s going to be.
Conservatives often tell me they are more altruistic than liberals, touting surveys showing that conservatives donate more to charity and volunteer more often. I’ve always been skeptical of those claims because a lot of it is tithing and participating in church activities, which I don’t consider charity except to the extent that they are actually [...]
Personhood has come to Arizona!
Okay, people, did I not tell you the other day that being vigilant about reproductive justice is important? Personhood has reared its head in Arizona. 2010 was the year Arizona voters lost their damn minds and sent a bunch of reactionary whackaloons to the Arizona Legislature, essentially to show that Kenyan Usurper in the White [...]
It’s actually important.
“If all you care about is abortion…” Last week, someone prefaced a comment to me thusly. I’ve heard variants of that line for years, mostly from fellow liberals and centrists who think some of us ladies spend too much time dwelling on reproductive justice when there are so many more Important ThingsTM we ought to [...]
Where compromise on choice has gotten us.
I hadn’t gotten around to blogging about the recent Plan B decision because I wanted to devote the time to tie it to the larger context. I was going to post today and then I saw that Scott Lemieux drew the big picture very well in his post for The American Prospect yesterday: “Modest” restrictions [...]
AZ’s GOP Congressmen have no use for useless incubators
Congress passed the shameful “Let Women Die” bill on a nearly party-line vote today. It earned that moniker because, if enacted into law, it would allow hospitals to deny women lifesaving abortions while still receiving federal dollars. Flake, Franks, Gosar, Quayle, and Schweikert voted yes. I guess it will create some jobs, since dead women [...]
A Nov 8th election that may possibly be more important than Phoenix Mayor or recalling Pearce
Not that both aren’t very important elections. But Mississippi will be voting on Measure 26 which will add the following to their state constitution: Initiative #26 would amend the Mississippi Constitution to define the word “person” or “persons”, as those terms are used in Article III of the state constitution, to include every human being [...]
