|
|
Arkansas Latest Attack Against Women
|
Yesterday, the Arkansas state senate passed a bill that defunds Planned Parenthood. If you think this is just about abortion, you should think again.
Planned Parenthood offers essential services to the women of Arkansas. Already, only 40% of all the counties in the state even have an OB/GYN, the closing of Planned Parenthood would diminish that even further. Consider- to actually see a doctor who specializes in women’s medicine, patients in Arkansas may have no alternative but to leave the state.
Furthermore, Planned Parenthood is the only organization that provides comprehensive sex education in Arkansas high schools. The curriculum focuses on abstinence, but also provides information about pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs. Without Planned Parenthood providing the curriculum and the tools, most high schools will simply stop teaching the subject.
In defunding Planned Parenthood, Arkansas adds more insult to injury to women who would choose to end a pregnancy. After their recent anti-abortion bill, which bans abortions starting at 12 weeks, the closure of Planned Parenthood may effectively end access to care within the incredibly short timeline left to those women. It is a clear violation of their constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
Write to the state representatives in Arkansas. Write to the governor. Do not let this stand.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- The War on Women- Arizona Front
- Good News out of Arkansas, But It’s Not Over Yet
- Planned Parenthood and Adoption Services
- Mississippi and Louisiana’s Teen Pregnancy Problem
- Arkansas: the Most anti-Woman State in the Country
April 9, 2013
|
|
Equal Pay Day
|
Today is Equal Pay Day, when the average American woman’s earnings catch up with the average American man’s for the last year.
It took from January 1, 2012 until today- April 9, 2013- for women to earn the same amount that men earned in 2012 alone. That’s more than a full three months of pay that women are being denied annually, simply because of their gender.
There are so many laws and corporate rules and social taboos that continue this problem. It’s against many company’s policies to discuss your salary with your coworkers and it’s considered rude to ask friends about their financial situations, so how can a woman learn what she SHOULD be earning, opposed to what she takes home?
We need real equal pay laws. Laws with teeth, with criminal penalties for companies that discriminate against women. We need to treat women with dignity and respect, not because any other person is in charge of caring for them, but because we are human beings.
Women, imagine that right now, every cent you’d earned in 2013 had been given to you when you earned it, last year. A full quarter of your income, denied to you. This is what is happening.
Write to the president. To your congressmen. Get angry. It’s Equal Pay Day, and it’s time somebody paid.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Equal Rights? Too Inconvenient for American Businesses
- Personhood Defeated!
- Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Governor Scott Walker Repeals Equal Pay Law
- The GOP Puts Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
April 8, 2013
|
|
Compulsory Gun Ownership
|
Republicans like to rail against big government. They’ll tell you that regulations are bad, because they don’t need anyone telling them their food is safe. They’ll tell you Obamacare is bad, because it dictates that people must buy health insurance. And then they’ll turn around, and force you to go out and buy a gun.
That’s right, in the Atlantan suburb of Nelson, Georgia, gun ownership is now compulsory.
The “Family Protection Ordinance” passed last week, and requires every head of household to purchase a gun and ammunition.
The fact that ammunition is also compulsory should show you that they expected all manner of peaceful protest to this kind of law.
What is most striking is the loopholes written into the bill to get you out of your compulsory gun ownership. If you’re a convicted felon, or have a history of mental illness.
That should sound familiar. Those same people who aren’t forced to buy guns are the same people that the majority of the public would prefer didn’t have access to guns in the first place. The same people who’s ability to purchase guns ought to be regulated.
So, gun control is bad, but forcing people (except the people who gun control is aimed at) to buy guns is good.
Glad we’ve got that cleared up.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (1)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Mass Killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School
- Sexism Week, Day Two: The NRA
- Personhood in Virginia
- Texas “Education”
- Putting Armed Child Sex Criminals in Our Schools
April 4, 2013
|
|
This is What the End of the United States Looks Like
|
Two hundred thirty two years ago, the United States fought a war for independence. Thousands of lives were lost, but our freedom was won. During this time, the founding fathers drafted our Constitution, and immediately began amending it to ensure that the freedoms for which Americans had fought and died would be protected. The very first amendment to the United States Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” That’s the very first clause of the very fist amendment. It is essential to the protection of civil liberties, and has been for over two hundred years.
North Carolina is ready to abandon this document. Two GOP lawmakers have brought forward a bill that allows the state to establish a state religion (presumably, their brand of Christianity). This bill is already backed by nine other Republicans, including the State House majority leader.
This is anathema to the American way of life, to every freedom that the United States has stood for since the Revolutionary War began.
North Carolina isn’t alone. Mississippi is trying to pass a law to allow them to nullify federal laws- presumably to the same effect. In order to enact their own theocratic ideals, rather than democratic ones.
Democracy means living in peace with people who might not agree with you. Not making their differing beliefs illegal, or legally inferior.
It this law passes, we may look back at it as the day America’s decline to dust began.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (1)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- The Speed of Intolerance
- Slavery: Finally in the Past?
- Women of the 113th Congress: Tulsi Gabbard
- 2011 and the War on Women- Part Two
- The Constitution- It Means Whatever You Want It To Mean
April 3, 2013
|
|
Discriminating Against the HIV+ in Kansas
|
Kansas lawmakers look likely to pass a new bill regarding the treatment of patients with HIV. I don’t mean their medical treatment- I mean their human rights. This bill would allow for their indefinite “quarantine.”
Originally, the bill was intended to protect first responders who might be exposed to HIV. Now, that’s all well and good, but in committee, the bill was modified. Now it can be interpreted to mean that any person with HIV or AIDS could be removed from the public.
This is a severe infraction of the civil rights of any person. Most likely, these Kansas lawmakers don’t understand how HIV is spread. They seem frightened that proximity to HIV positive people is enough to spread the infection.
Our lawmakers need to be educated about issues before they begin writing laws about them. But regardless of the correctness of the science involved, writing laws that strip American citizens of their rights and liberties is always unacceptable. There is never a time when it is okay.
People of Kansas, write to your legislators. Don’t let them do this.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- In Kansas, Your Fetus Gets Better Healthcare than You
- Kansas- The New Personhood Battleground
- Sexism- Alive and Well
- Texas “Education”
- Santorum’s Moment of Honesty
April 2, 2013
|
|
Oil Spill in Arkansas
|
There has been a rupture in the Tar Sands pipeline.
Thousands of barrels of crude oil has forced people from their homes surrounding Little Rock, Arkansas.
This is why there has been so much concern over the Keystone XL pipeline. This is the hazard of of pumping crude oil underground over hundreds and thousands of miles. These are real concerns.
Is it worth it to continue using a resource that we know is limited, that we know is hazardous to our environment, that we know is bad for life- both human and animal?
The conservatives in favor of these pipelines claim they’ll create jobs. But those jobs involve cleaning the wasted oil out of the back yards of unsuspecting Americans, are those jobs we really want to have?
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Be The Change Friday: Spring Cleaning
- GOP: Dog Should Have the Right to Fight
- Be The Change Friday- Your Local Farmers Market
- Michele Bachmann’s Family Values- Gay Teens and Suicide
- Rep. Sally Kern- The GOP’s Latest Disaster Area
March 22, 2013
|
|
Jailing Trans Americans in Arizona
|
There’s a new bill going through the Arizona legislature intended to get the stat’s transgender population behind bars.
You see, the world is changing. People are actualizing themselves in ways never before possible. People born with male genitalia who in their hearts, minds, and souls are otherwise women now have access to treatments to help them. People born with female genitalia who’s hearts, milds, and souls are otherwise male have options. There are millions of intersex people born every year, people with genitalia that, from birth, can be ambiguous.
We are learning, as a human race, that sexual identity is not black and white. That gender is not binary.
But some people are terrified of this change. They are terrified of a world that permits shades of grey. Male or female, straight or sinful, these are the only shades they want to see. And as more information is uncovered, as more people come out of the shadows and into the light, they do all they can to push them back into their black and white boxes.
This new law would jail transgendered people for using the “wrong” bathroom. But who has the right to determine who is a man and who is a woman?
Certainly not the government.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Planned Parenthood and Adoption Services
- Kenya Steps Forward to Protect Women
- Attempted Rape is Attempted Rape
- Why the GOP Doesn’t Want You to Vote
- Racism: Alive and Well in America
March 15, 2013
|
|
Obama on Gay Marriage
|
In a conversation with George Stephanopoulos his week,the President Obama showed just how far his position of marriage equality has evolved.
When he first came out in support of marriage equality last May, it signalled a shift from a position he had previously held the issue of equal rights should be left to the individual states. But since then, he has found opportunity after opportunity to throw more of his political weight behind the issue.
He singled out the issue of marriage equality in both his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech.
And now, he’s hit the airwaves in advance of the Supreme Court taking up the case later this month.
The president, along with many other Americans, has filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of marriage equality.
Hopefully, soon the United States Supreme Court will rule that the Constitution protects all citizens equally, regardless of how their family may look.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Marriage Equality- Waiting for June
- The Supreme Court and Prop 8
- State of the Union: What Rubio Said and Obama Didn’t
- Bigot of the Week: Jeanne Ives
- Challenges to Roe v. Wade
March 14, 2013
|
|
Bigot of the Week: Jeanne Ives
|
A marriage equality bill has been steadily working its way through the Illinois State Legislature. It seems likely that it will pass, but there is still a fight ahead. And nothing shows how much of a fight there can be between the status quo and marriage equality like the rhetoric of its opponents.
A jew weeks ago, State Representative Jeanne Ives (R) took to the airwaves to oppose the bill. And what did she say?
“I’m more than happy to stand up and take a courageous vote here on this issue because it’s the right thing to do. Essentially what they’re trying to do is not just redefine marriage, they’re trying to redefine society. They’re trying to weasel their way into acceptability so that they can then start to push their agenda down into the schools, because this gives them some sort of legitimacy. And we can’t allow that to happen.”
But she didn’t stop there. She went on to say, “To not have a mother and a father is really a disordered state for a child to grow up in and it really makes that child an object of desire rather than the result of a matrimony.”
Ives is right. It is incredibly courageous to publicly spout this kind of ignorant vitriol. That takes some real chutzpah. But it doesn’t change the fact that her position is one of hatred, fear, and oppression.
For her “courageous” words, Jeanne Ives is the bigot of the week.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- Single Motherhood Is Not A Crime
- Bi-Coastal Marriage Equality
- Obama on Gay Marriage
- Marriage Equality in Maine
- Rape Victims, the GOP Feels Your Pain
March 12, 2013
|
|
Lies Your Teachers Can Tell You In Louisiana
|
Thanks to a new voucher program in Louisiana, tens of millions of tax dollars are about to rush into schools that teach things that are simply untrue. Here are a few examples:
“Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years.”—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007
“God used the Trail of Tears to bring many Indians to Christ.”—America: Land That I Love, Teacher ed., A Beka Book, 1994
“The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 1991
“[Homosexuals] have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.”—Teacher’s Resource Guide to Current Events for Christian Schools, 1998-1999, Bob Jones University Press, 1998
“[Ku Klux] Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies.”—United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2001
And perhaps the worst of it:
“Unlike the ‘modern math’ theorists, who believe that mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, A Beka Book teaches that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute…A Beka Bookprovides attractive, legible, and workable traditional mathematics texts that are not burdened with modern theories such as set theory.”—ABeka.com
That’s right, rewriting history isn’t good enough. These schools are also teaching that math like algebra is just plain too hard. Or Satanic. Or something.
THIS is what tax dollars are supporting.
Be mad.
What do you think? Click here to leave a comment: Comments (0)
________________________________________
If you like this post please share or vote for it below:
Twitter: Tweet
Stumble:
delicious:
reddit:
Digg:
________________________________________
If you like this blog please subscribe to read updates in a
feed reader (it's free!)
(what is a feed reader? )
or by email!
Thanks! We really appreciate all your support!
________________________________________
Related Posts:
- More Reasons to Despise Herman Cain
- Republicans: This Is Your Party
- You Can’t Rape a Wife- Just Ask the GOP
- The Character of Paul Ryan
- Starvation as Punishment in Tennessee
Next Page »



