abortion classic or dud?

i don't understand how that can even remotely work, given that abortion is not technically legal in south dakota (even if they make it so difficult that it practically is).

jesus

sick

article makes it sound like it'll be a toothless law should it ever get passed, but the fact that someone had the stones to even suggest it is pretty fucking horrifying

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17dakota.html

NYT being kinda generous by describing this as 'South Dakota Shelves Bill Aimed at Defending Unborn'

fyi the morning after pill today became available from pharmacies in ireland, so it's not all global backsliding.

WTG Ireland!

it's a thundering disgrace, tbf. I nearly dropped my shillelagh

first head shops, now this

fyi the morning after pill today became available from pharmacies in ireland, so it's not all global backsliding.

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:31 AM (1 hour ago)

wow that's great - there must have been a huge shitstorm

The Church's moral authority there is a little less acknowledged than before, shall we say.

quite.

Passed without any fuss

fucking disgusting that the south dakota bill is even being discussed

not on ilx, obv. by SD pols.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rolling-stone-clarifies-that-justin-bieber-doesnt,52008/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=avclub_rss_daily

haha when i saw this was bumped i knew someone had posted that

http://gothamist.com/2011/02/23/anti-abortion_billboard_in_soho_tar.php

Really gross stuff.

ugh

I refer them to Rep. Gwen Moore: "I know all about black babies, I've had three of them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl1BhDXRoJo

I can't believe I hadn't seen that before. Fucking right on Gwen Moore. I think I love her.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-22-2011/mother-f--kers

people should be tearing that ad off of the building. really now.

i think michelle goldberg, i forget, made the point that if congress & the house weren't so ridiculously uneven in terms of m/f makeup, it might be possible for issues relating to women to be debated significantly in a conversational way; people actually convincing others rather than spitting stats etc. right on to the two women who spoke up.

it might be a little harder to say a lot of the sexist bullshit they get away with, but i'm not sure how it'd affect abortion policy; a recent poll i've seen showed that more women were opposed to abortion than men.

That Gwen Moore speech DESERVES MORE APPLAUSE than that.

that ad is vile. but at least these bozos weren't smart enough to edit their facebook comments!

hxxp://www.facebook.com/pages/Thats-Abortion/188038264562330

That Gwen Moore speech deserves a goddamn medal! It's not often that anyone shoves the GOP's real attitude about minorities and their children, let alone poor people generally, right back in their faces on the floor of the House like that.

i keep reading 'that's abortion' and hearing it sung to the tune of 'that's amore'

When the fetus hits the bucket like an organic rocket
That's abortion
When the world shines again and you can lift up your chin
That's abortion
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "vita libera"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Without a care-a

When your tummy feels so light like a low-cal delight
That's abortion
When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're so free
When you walk down in a dream but your eyes they can see
With no distortion
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli
That's abortion

(Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone.)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/CLASS/130-143.jpg

can anyone give examples of legal expansions of the class of cases of justifiable homicide, a la all the new bills trying to make it legal to kill abortion doctors?

Ask an Abortion Provider!

I have no regrets, and although I’ll never know what could have been PSYCH I do know what could have been! The dude and I would have broken up and I would have not finished college let alone grad school, and I would have been a fucking disaster of a mother, because even now the best I can promise to a child is to be convincing enough that they can't tell I secretly wish they were an adult instead.

I'm a former abortion provider and that article is otm, but I find her writing style pretty annoying.

kinda feel bad having excerpted one of the more lol bits above because it's otherwise affectingly and righteously OTM.

Ahhh kate, I'm sorry. I thought she was lol and great! But I'm an easy mark for sarccy/snarky voices.

don't get me wrong, I loves the snark, too. I just prefer a more subtle strain with less CAPS and !!

That article makes me wish I had become an abortion provider. Kind of.

i cannot believe this:

The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against Angel Dillard, 44, after she sent what it alleges was a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means. In denying the government's request for a preliminary injunction that would have prevented Dillard from coming within 250 feet of the doctor, U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten said that while the letter was clearly meant to intimidate Means, it wasn't a threat.

...

Dillard, of Valley Center, wrote in her rambling letter in January that thousands of people from across the United States were looking into Means' background.

"They will know your habits and routines. They know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live," the letter said. "You will be checking under your car everyday — because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it."

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Judge-denies-feds-request-on-Kan-activist-1344611.php

that while the letter was clearly meant to intimidate Means, it wasn't a threat

So, in the interest of free speech, as long as you don't make a specific (and I assume credible) threat you can refer to the legitimacy or even the desirability of harming someone?

There is bad news on this front every day. Every single day now. Total radio silence from the Democratic party - it's never a good time for a Democratic politician to stand up for reproductive rights; this is ground they have decided to give. Actual underground strategies (clinics, etc) are going to be necessary during the next twenty years, in my opinion.

People who believe in the right to choose should make it clear to their elected reps that they will not vote for any politician who does not actively work to support the right to choose. That includes filibustering any bill that seeks to limit that right. This is one are in which "the other side will be worse" is visibly, clearly false: both "sides" are allowing this right to be eroded.

one area

So, in the interest of free speech, as long as you don't make a specific (and I assume credible) threat you can refer to the legitimacy or even the desirability of harming someone?

― Periblepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (Michael White), Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:02 PM (5 minutes ago)

um actually yeah. this particular case probably isn't protected though

There is bad news on this front every day. Every single day now. Total radio silence from the Democratic party - it's never a good time for a Democratic politician to stand up for reproductive rights; this is ground they have decided to give. Actual underground strategies (clinics, etc) are going to be necessary during the next twenty years, in my opinion.

People who believe in the right to choose should make it clear to their elected reps that they will not vote for any politician who does not actively work to support the right to choose. That includes filibustering any bill that seeks to limit that right. This is one are in which "the other side will be worse" is visibly, clearly false: both "sides" are allowing this right to be eroded.

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:04 PM (5 minutes ago)

not news to anyone but: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/newsflash-gops-anti-abortion-drive-continues-unabated--on-the-state-level/2011/03/04/AF5GphDE_blog.html

That stuff started at several state levels during the health care debate, as soon as Democratic willingness to trade abortion coverage for bill passage became clear. It's been ongoing throughout the present admin; it seems clear to me that people who support abortion rights are on their own now, politically.

so the guy who currently occupies the louisiana state legislature seat previously held by davids duke and vitter filed this stupid piece of shit. obviously pointless but, i mean, fuck this dude.

metairie, louisiana: the worst place in the world. i wish they'd just build a wall around it.

"I beleive it would be in direct conflict with them ... and immediately go to court. That is the goal of the individuals who asked me to put this bill in."

Unexpected truthfulness.

lol what a dipshit

Pro-Life is all very well if you don't have to make the choice. It is an issue for the individuals involved if they decide to terminate a pregnancy. There are always mitigating reasons why a pregnancy should not go to full term and numerous situations for a why a child should not be born into the world. This douche from metairie, louisiana is nothing more than ignorant.

I'd love to turn him into a 15 year old girl, from a rough estate, with no support or money and get him knocked up. Do you think he'd feel differently then?

Is that a bit harsh? It just makes me so angry.