It's been a baaaaaaad week:
- As Meteor Blades reported, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal justified signing another bogus "informed consent" law by comparing women who undergo abortions to criminals. But remember, it's for their own good.
- From the same assholes who've been bringing us the horribly racist billboards comparing abortion to slavery, last week they released a propaganda video that just happened to coincide with the anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
The video, titled “Epidemic,” shows colorful graphics and statistics, alongside footage of Martin Luther King Jr.
Because denying women their right to control their own bodies is exactly what Dr. King was always talking about. Classy.
- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback appoints a fox to watch the hen house:
Brownback has tapped Rick Macias, a lawyer that has represented the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, to serve on the Kansas Board of Healing Arts. Operation Rescue is a national group that moved its offices to Kansas in 2007. The group moved in order to focus their opposition work on Dr. George Tiller, who provided late-term abortion services in his Wichita clinic until an anti-abortion extremist murdered him in his church in May 2009.
The 15-member Board of Healing Arts handles licensing for medical doctors, physical therapists, and other health care providers. Macias would serve on the board through June 2014.
That's right—the lawyer for the group that terrorizes abortion providers is now in charge of regulating abortion providers. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong with that?
- Remember when contraception was legal in America? Apparently, New Hampshire didn't get that memo.
- Remember when abortion was legal? Arizona didn't get that memo.
- In case you missed it, "Pro-life" terrorists name themselves "most peaceful social movement of all time."
- Sick:
A women in Oregon has been placed in custody while awaiting a trial for arson and disorderly conduct after allegedly dousing herself with paint thinner and lighter fluid in a motel room. The woman, who is being treated for mental health issues while being held, has requested an abortion in a nearby town, but so far the request has been denied unless she comes up with $6500 -- 10 percent of the $65,000 in bail being requested as she may be a "flight risk."
- extina wrote a great diary explaining why the biggest loser in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case is the
victim "accuser." Go read it.
- Hope08 wrote a diary about the horrifying impact, which she has witnessed first-hand, of Oklahoma's anti-woman laws. Go read it.
- About that mancession ...
Although job growth remains unacceptably slow for both men and women, it is striking that women have actually lost jobs during the recovery while men gained. In addition, women’s unemployment rate rose from 7.7 percent in June 2009 to 8.0 percent in June 2011, while men’s unemployment rate declined from 9.9 percent to 9.1 percent over the last two years.
During the recession, men suffered about 70 percent of the job loss. However, in the recovery, they have seen all of the job gains.
- Between June 2009 and June 2011, women lost 281,000 jobs while men gained 805,000.
- Losses in the public sector have been the driving factor in women’s overall job loss. Between June 2009 and June 2011, women lost 343,000 public-sector jobs, 70 percent of all the public sector jobs lost.
- Private sector gains for women have been minimal. Women accounted for only 6 percent of all jobs gained in the private sector during the recovery.
- More evidence that we shouldn't be worried about gays in the military—we should be worried about rapists in the military.
- Pop quiz: What do you think model legislation called Joint Resolution to Promote Women’s Safety by Investigating and Defunding Planned Parenthood and Other Abortion Providers does?
a) Promotes women's safety
b) Restricts women's rights and access to safe and affordable reproductive health care
Please show your work.