When Abortion Was a Crime, I Would Have Sought One

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Monday June 01, 2009 · 11:13 AM PDT

2009/06/01 · 11:13

One of the feminist websites I regularly read (either the amazing Pandagon, Feministing, or Feministe) started a book club, so I ordered When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 http://www.amazon.com/...

But even before I'd read the book (highly readable, but frightening, if it's the view of our future, too) I wrote the below on Amazon.)

When Abortion Was a Crime is not just history for me, it was a frightening part of my life. When I was a teenager abortion was a crime: and the choices that forced on women was another crime.

judybrown

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 1:31 PM PDT

2009/04/29 · 13:31

To paraphrase Al Franken, yet another Republican Congress "person" has taken the lead in the coalition of Bigoted Lies and the Bigoted Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

Meet Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., North Carolina):

the House Republican chosen to lead the charge against including women, people with disabilities, and gays in America's already-existing hate crimes law - existing law already counts violent crime based on the race, religion or national origin of the victim as a "hate crime" - just referred on the US House floor to Matthew Shepard's murder as "a hoax."

judybrown

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Friday April 03, 2009 · 12:45 PM PDT

2009/04/03 · 12:45

Over at the wonderous Hullabaloo, Dday catches out Faux Dems Bayh and Nelson in rather biggo hypocrisy votes:

In the Senate yesterday the budget vote played out almost exclusively among party lines, with only two Democratic Senators - Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson -- crossing the aisle to whine along with the Republicans that too much money was being wasted on the American public, and adverting a depression.

What a fucking coincidence:

These same two Senators, the ones whining and crying about fiscal responsibility, voted last night to shield millionaires from taxes on their estates, costing the government $250 billion dollars.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/...

judybrown

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 3:47 PM PST

2009/01/20 · 15:47

There's a comment thread over on Change.gov pertaining to Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration:

http://change.gov/...

Which, not surprisingly, has been freeped: invaded, infected by the virulent forced-birth wingnuttery. They come armed with all the lies and smears of reproductive freedom you could imagine, flung like feces (and some you couldn't imagine in a million years.) All decked out in the traditional reich-wing forced-birth format: fact-free, misspelled, illogical, illiterate.

Every once in a while a voice of reason weighs in on a thread, only to be buried in an avalanche of smear and bleatings by the panty-sniffing busybodies with waaaaay too much time on their hands.

judybrown

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 11:47 AM PST

2009/01/16 · 11:47

From Feministing:
http://community.feministing.com/...

And not just just any clowns. Clowns who teach middle schoolers sex education!

...Derek Dye, the latest in the long, funny and sad line of abstinence-only sex education heroes. Dye uses his juggling clown schtick to draw the middle school kids’ attention, and then... Wham!

"Having sex before you are married is like juggling machetes!" :

Check out the must-see video of Dye at work in a classroom below the fold:

Poll

48 votes Show Results

Forget clowns, I'd rather have my pre-teens taught sex ed by:

48 votes Vote Now!

Forget clowns, I'd rather have my pre-teens taught sex ed by:

Bobonos, the sex happy apes.

12 votes

Nuns: that'll scare them sexless.

5 votes

Qualified health professionals, or at least, gym teachers who can roll a condom on a banana.

20 votes

The old-fashioned way: finding the dirty books and porno stashed in the back my closet.

11 votes

RICK WARREN TO BLOGGERS: GET A LIFE

judybrown

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Tuesday December 23, 2008 · 1:28 PM PST

2008/12/23 · 13:28

Hey, bloggers, Rick doesn't like you either:

http://www.saddlebackfamily.com/...

Warren also lies in the above video, claiming that he's never compared homosexuality to incest and pedophilia.

To hear Warren say just that go to:
http://www.youtube.com/...

Below the fold: Rick Warren running scared from us, and more:

judybrown

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 9:50 AM PST

2008/12/21 · 09:50

My brother is about to lose his job: his company has been eaten by a bigger company.

After working for that company for 15 years (50, 60, 70 hours a week, no overtime, because he's considered management) my brother is redundant, they're going to pile his job onto that of the guy in the bigger company doing something similar.

At 54 years old, My brother will have no health insurance. Although he and his partner Larry have been in a committed, monogamous relationship for 34 years, Larry can't put Bill on his health insurance.

judybrown

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 1:40 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 13:40

Oh ho, I've got your attention now, have I?

Of all the preachers Obama could have selected to elevate and validate (and, in every sense, it was Obama’s choice), Warren is one of the most destructive—not only having been one of the most vocal supporters for Proposition 8, but also using the most inflammatory rhetoric on gay issues generally, expressing anti-abortion views in the most fanatical terms possible, and even sitting with Sean Hannity recently and urging the murder of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

(For links to all of the above about Warren, and the two paragraph below: http://pandagon.net/...

...Embracing someone like Warren is no more "inclusive" than inviting a White Supremacist or, for that matter, a Christian-hater to deliver the invocation.

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133 votes Show Results

I'm not a bigot (or misogynist), BUT . . .

133 votes Vote Now!

I'm not a bigot (or misogynist), BUT . . .

It's time for those silly gays to STFU and get over having their civil rights stomped on.

12 votes

Reproductive freedom: you're free to keep your knees together, slut.

8 votes

Rights for women and gays? You have the right to open your wallet, and vote for Dems.

9 votes

This fuss over Warren is a hissy fit. He's not denying MY rights.

13 votes

You're kidding about the racist and anti-semite at the inaugeration, aren't you? Now, THAT would piss me off.

4 votes

Rick Warren is a slap in the face to Democrats and progressives who long for true inclusiveness.

87 votes

REVERSE PRETTY WOMAN: RNC takes back Palin's clothes (with Poll) UPDATE

judybrown

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 4:04 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 16:04

Unlike in the movies, shopping sprees have their consequences.

New relevations: Sarah Palin bought, bought, bought even more than the $150,000 and like the worst bully boss imaginable, forced her underlings to put another $20,000 - $30,00 or on their own credit cards.

As part and parcel of throwing her under the bus, the GOP is going to pick up as much of that ill-gotten wardrobe as possible.

A GOP lawyer will be dispatched to Alaska to snatch back Sarah's new rags!

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516 votes Show Results

I buy most of my wardrobe

516 votes Vote Now!

I buy most of my wardrobe

At Nieman's, Bloomingdale's -- name the fancy-schmanzy store, and I drop a bundle!

36 votes

Online: J. Crew, Ebay, I'm frugal and don't wanna look at myself in store mirrors.

104 votes

Make my own, and no, I don't look lumpy.

8 votes

New to Me: at Goodwill, Salvation Army: I'm recycling!

186 votes

Target, K-Mart, to hell with Chinese child labor.

115 votes

The mall: wanna hang out and get some Pinkberry's?

67 votes

ABC News' Pissy Lies about Obama's Message

judybrown

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 6:51 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 18:51

I was in the kitchen slicing up veggies for stew, and somehow accidentally had ABC local news on the TV nearby -- when I heard a segment which reminded me all too clearly, why I never listen to network news anymore.

In an obviously pissy segment about Obama's message show this evening, I counted at least a couple lies, a loaded question and Obama not allowed to finish a sentence in reply, and a general nasty tone that may have something to do with ABC having lost that half hour to Fox when it equivicated too long, but certainly didn't resemble journalism as I'm familiar with it.

So, I sent 'em a snarky email:

I'd forgotten why I no longer watch ABC news, until I accidentally had the station on tonight while making dinner.

In news coverage about Barack Obama's political message tonight, I heard two or three outright falsehoods, and a loaded question, to which the candidate's answer was obviously clipped so short, he had no chance to answer that loaded question -- which left that as the only statement.

judybrown

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 1:57 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 13:57

According to CNN's electoral map, even if McCain wins ALL his leaning states, and ALL tossups, he still can't make it to 270!
http://www.cnn.com/...

In order for McCain to pull a win out of the fire, he'd ALSO have to pick up several of the states that are either polling safe for, or leaning to Obama.

judybrown

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 6:18 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 18:18

I'd agreed to participate in an online survey about weight loss plans for two reasons: I'm in love with my own opinions, and I was being paid $75 to do so.

I'm also fiercely against extreme methods of weight loss, having been on several doctor-supervised plans that nearly wrecked my health (Fen-Phen, liquid diet soy and rice based, low-fat vegetarian) for a weight gain that was also physician-caused (after I was treated with hormones.)

So I was set and ready to lambaste any new doctor-led fad diet, and any hint that women should jeopardize their health to be slim.

But I also ended up with an opportunity to fight for choice, which was a bonus.

Take that, Sarah Palin!

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46 votes Show Results

Fuck you, I'm fat

46 votes Vote Now!

Fuck you, I'm fat

And so?

9 votes

My boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse likes it, so fuck you.

8 votes

Fuck you, Rape Kit Palin.

29 votes

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When Abortion Was a Crime, I Would Have Sought One

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Dear Forced-Birth Fanatics: It's Over, You Lost

Your Tax Dollars Going to Clowns - literally: CLOWNS! (w/POLL)

RICK WARREN TO BLOGGERS: GET A LIFE

Rick Warren endangers my brother's health

INCLUSION: RACIST &ANTI-SEMITE invited to INAUGURATION (Poll!)

REVERSE PRETTY WOMAN: RNC takes back Palin's clothes (with Poll) UPDATE

ABC News' Pissy Lies about Obama's Message

ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Even if McCain wins all tossups, he loses election!

My Little Victory for Pro Choice -- and Fat (w/POLL)