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McCain: The Anti-Choice Zealot

August 13th 2008 14:33
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The New Republic has a great article up regarding McCain and his anti-choice views. His reputation as a moderate slowly slips away as more and more people learn about his real views. Such as his opposition to Roe v. Wade and his desire to fill the Supreme Court with ultra-conservatives. Out of his 130 votes on reproductive heath, McCain voted anti-choice on 125 of them, which includes the global gag rule that prevented funds to international family-planning clinics.


The opening of the article shows a glimpse of the real McCain.

John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mesa, which was within his Arizona congressional district. That's when Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. "Congressman McCain is here," a staffer told her, "and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients."

Feldt says McCain had always refused her offers to visit a clinic, but had apparently decided to make a spot visit of his own. What had raised his ire was a shelf containing information about Title X federal funding, which some clinics receive to support non-abortion-related reproductive health care for low-income women. McCain was upset that the clinic provided paper for people to write their representatives in support of the legislation, which requires constant advocacy because Congress must reauthorize it every year. "His immediate and incorrect assumption," says Feldt, "was that we were using federal funds to pay for lobbying." Feldt got on the phone. "He was screaming, 'I am going to defund her, I am going to get the federal government to defund you.'... [H]e rants and he raves and finally he hangs up on me."


McCain has played an image of someone who never really thought about contraception and abortion for the media. As the article points out he's done his share of "You've stumped me" and "I never really thought about it" to give voters the idea that he is not as anti-choice as his voting record shows. But he has thought about it, often. The only thing he is stumped on is how to phrase his anti-choice views in a way not to turn off the key moderate votes he is counting on.
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Birth Control - Period Control?

August 3rd 2008 04:49
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Don't tell certain guys this, but birth control might not only be about stopping babies. It might, dare I say it, have something to do with hormones and certain female bodily functions.

I know I kid, but I can't help it. What kind of a feminist would I be if I didn't share the goodness that is Sarah Haskins. This time she takes on those bizarre birth control ads that play up the reasons other than preventing pregnancy that you might want to take your daily pill. Enjoy!

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Let's play a game of Blame the Victim. I'll start: a woman goes out, has a few drinks, is feeling drunk, and suddenly a man comes along and rapes her. Who gets the blame? If you said the rapist you would be wrong.

More Rapes Linked To Young Women On Drinking Binges

That's the headline given to an article about the number of rapes in San Diego going up. It's not that more men are committing rape, or that rapists are getting away with repeat assaults, or even the more positive outlook that more rapes are being reported. Nope, it's those silly girls getting drunk and getting themselves raped.

From the story:

"The majority are young women who start out in bars or at a house party and end up drinking too much," Kendrick told the newspaper. "They can't consciously make a good decision, like say no and leave. Or maybe they've had too much to drink and can't leave."

Right, because having the audacity of being a woman, drinking, and in a place where there are rapists is really just a matter of making the wrong decision. Everyone knows that if you just tell your rapist no he'll let you get up and leave, it's just that the women are too drunk to do that.

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How about that more men are targeting women drinking in bars or parties. Which really isn't that surprising given the way rape cases are handled today. If a woman drinks too much she not only has to worry about being raped, but also that the judge will decide if she was too drunk to walk she was also too drunk to say no. Rather than ruling more harshly against the rapists who take advantage of woman who are intoxicated the women are punished for doing the drinking, sending the not-so-subtle message that "good girls" stay at home and wash their hair rather than leave the house and behave like everyone else is. And of course if you're not a good girl then it's not really rape/it's totally your fault.

One good thing is that from this San Diego's rape numbers should decrease. Not that the number of actual rapes will go down, just that more women will choose not to report them for fear of how they will be treated when it's discovered that their ankles were showing.

Image source - Brenna Lorenz, Martin Walls
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Sex, Sluts, and Cosmopolitan

July 21st 2008 17:01
As a mom of sons there are such some things that I hope to make my sons understand in their lifetime. Certain issues that I hope to have ingrained in them. Things such as "No means no" and "Ask before touching", little nuggets of wisdom that both help them now when fighting over shared toys and will certainly help them later as grown men. Another helpful lesson is not to call women sluts based on something as frivolous as what they choose to read. Mona Charen, syndicated columnists and author, disagrees with my parenting ideals. In an interesting tidbit of daily life Charen let us in on how the right-wing talking heads prefer to raise their sons.

Funny you should mention that. I was in the supermarket yesterday with my 14-year-old son who asked "What's up with Cosmopolitan? What is that?" I replied, "It's a magazine for sluts."

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Time and time again the so called "pro-life" movement has shown it's true colors by being pro anything but life. At least not life as most people know it, in a thinking, feeling, living human being. It seems that once again the "pro-life" people have stepped up to say they are absolutely against life.

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To celebrate National HIV Testing Day a group from Planned Parenthood made arrangements to pass out fliers at a local Wal-Mart. Despite what the extreme anti-choice like to claim, the fliers were in no way attempting to give porn and birth control to kindergarteners. What that would even have to do with HIV testing and prevention is beyond me anyways


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