Pharmacy Schools and The War on Contraception

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 8:32 AM PDT

2006/09/27 · 08:32

The anti-abortion camp's new no-contraception tactics were reported in various newspapers and blogs on Sunday, and diaried by maxomai Sunday night. Pharmacists will be some of the front-line warriors in this new crusade. A look at "conscience clauses" and the presence of fundamentalist Christians in pharmacy schools under the fold... Read More

Oglala Sioux Women's Clinic Update

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Sunday July 16, 2006 · 8:48 PM PDT

2006/07/16 · 20:48

Got a letter over the weekend from Emily Bull Bear, one of the founders of Sacred Choices Clinic on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation. For those who didn't catch it the first time around, Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala tribe, responded to South Dakota's proposed abortion ban by vowing to establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on tribal land, where draconian state laws would not be able to impede a woman's ability to seek either contraception or pregnancy termination. This issue is particularly salient on the reservation, where women are subjected to rape and other sexual abuse at rates four to five times higher than their white counterparts in South Dakota. The original check I wrote was returned by the tribe, fallout from Fire Thunder's impeachment, initiated by council members opposing her stance on abortion.

However, alternate funding outside the purview of the tribal government is now possible. The text of the letter follows:
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When Netroots Fail: Cecilia Fire Thunder vs. Male Hegemony in Pine Ridge

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Friday June 02, 2006 · 10:51 AM PDT

2006/06/02 · 10:51

I thought this was going to be a nice little ray of sunshine piece, about how a modest netroots effort in the face of unjust legislation actually managed to make a difference. JenInOK first diaried this news Wednesday night. A few more perspectives from Fire Thunder's supporters and detractors are offered here.

A little background for those who missed it the first time: the South Dakota abortion ban pissed off the president of the Oglala Sioux tribe in a major way.

''I'm always an advocate for women, it's all about women. To me, when I heard that [Gov. Mike Rounds] signed the bill including rape and incest, I was going, 'Wait a minute, we know that rape and incest occur - how do we allow white men to tell me what to do with my little brown body?'
''It was just intuitive as a woman to speak up. I shook the tree of denial on the Pine Ridge Reservation and now everyone is talking about it. Did you notice that it's mostly men criticizing what I've been doing?''

Fire Thunder's declaration took the blogosphere by storm and we all did little happy dances. More below the fold... Read More

Focus on the Family FMA Letter Generator

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Saturday May 27, 2006 · 3:24 PM PDT

2006/05/27 · 15:24

It's TIRADE season on the right, a nifty little acronym I coined to describe most of the discussions surrounding gay rights, gay marriage, gay-anything-out-of-the-closet... Tired Invective Repeated And Discredited Endlessly.

This particular tirade comes courtesy of Big Jimmy Dobson and the Focus on the Family gang, with their shiny new letter-to-the-editor generator (big hat tip to Pam's House Blend for the alert) so that the faithful minions not only don't need to form their own opinions, but also don't need to go to through the annoyance of coming up with their very own words articulating them. Read More

Ellis Island Apples, Mexico Border Naranjas

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Monday May 15, 2006 · 11:48 AM PDT

2006/05/15 · 11:48

The president is set to address the nation tonight on the topic of (illegal) immigration, likely including the announcement that the National Guard will be deployed along the Mexican border. This administration is fixin' a veritable spiral-bound church social cookbook of recipes for disaster. At first blush, I'm all for anything that keeps the boys and girls out of Iraq, but a Sasabe-to-Douglas game of Red Rover with guns is not, perhaps, the most healthy alternative.

A few letters to the editor in the Tucson morning paper over the past few weeks have harped on the message that, well, my ancestors came over here legally, without sneaking in, so everybody else should do it that way too, because the illegals are just cutting the line in front of the people doing it the right way. Let's take a look at that. Read More

Unintended Consequences: Chastity and Rape Reporting

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 7:29 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 07:29

Continuing the theme of purity pledges and a level of paternal involvement in pre-adolescent girls' sexuality, we turn to the wide world of chastity jewelry, divergent symbolism for girls and boys, and some of the unsettling implications for those kids' lives once they grow up. This was spurred by yet another Digby post, this one discussing the purity jewelry offered by a guy loosely connected to Randall Terry. Read More

Promotion of Vice and Prevention of Virtue, USA

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Wednesday April 19, 2006 · 12:20 PM PDT

2006/04/19 · 12:20

I came across a few tidbits today that run the gamut from nauseating to enraging, sometimes interchangeably. How are abortion restrictions, abstinence pledges, and strange anti-fertility rituals (just in time for the Oestre season!) interconnected?

You probably know all this already, but humor me; it's my first diary. Read More

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