So, after having the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the White House, Republicans failed to even offer, much less pass, a single bill to outlaw most or all abortion. However will the GOP keep those demanding fundamentalists mindlessly forking over cash and pulling the one armed GOP bandit at the polls? Oh yeah, variable reinforcement:
Feministing -- Hold on to your hats. I hear from a little birdie that the Bush administration has hired Dr. Eric Keroack to oversee Title X funding--the only federal program devoted entirely to family planning and reproductive health. ... Keroack is not only a well-known anti-choicer, he's also a major proponent of abstinence-only education...and when I say proponent, I mean fucking insane person.
- Yet more evidence that right-wing fundamentalism and modern medicine don't make a good match, Via Majikthise "a near-fatal ectopic pregnancy is God's way of telling you to get knocked up more often."
- The new findings on Dark Energy are kinda interesting, but if only the Dobsonites ruled -- science students could be studying the fascinating field of young earth cosmology.
- Ian Musgrave takes Intelligent Design Creationists back to school to review Honesty & Physiology 101.