We have narrowly won a victory today. For those of you who don’t know, the “Smith Bill,” is an antiabortion GOP-backed House bill that was proposed by Republicans a few weeks ago. The bill proposed changing current abortion laws, which provides federal money for abortions in the case of life-threatening pregnancies or rape. The Smith […]
Read More Quickhit – All Rape is “Rape Rape”So I linked to my earlier letter to the editor responding to Dukes For Life’s anti-choice breast cancer fliers. On Dec. 6 they responded: http://www.breezejmu.org/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_5ff90414-00c5-11e0-af36-0017a4a78c22.html. And in today’s Breeze, John McGehee responded to their response (never before have I used any verb form of the word respond so much) with this fantastic rebuttal: http://www.breezejmu.org/opinion/article_fdffb764-0333-11e0-b47e-0017a4a78c22.html
Read More Quick hit: Dukes for Life Respond, awesome person responds to thatIn the interest of full disclosure, and so my bias seems a little more warranted, I’d first like to say that I was raised Catholic. My mom’s family is Catholic, my dad’s family is Catholic, my grandma is probably the most terrifyingly Catholic person I have ever met. She could out-Catholic the Pope himself (who, […]
Read More Screw the Pope, but don’t forget your condoms (especially if you’re a male prostitute)(Disclaimer: Sorry this post is so late, I’ve been sick and asleep and on all sorts of meds all weekend). This weekend was Amnesty International’s awesome Violence Against Women Awareness week. I attended two events – a panel featuring All Girls Allowed, First Step, and World Hope International. The other event I attended was a talk with journalist Rana […]
Read More Get educated about violence against womenBecause of how upset I was at the Dukes for Life appropriating Breast Cancer Awareness month to spread some more anti-choice lies, I had an op ed published in the Breeze about it, which you can read here.
Read More Quick hit: My op ed in the Breeze…If you were on Port Republic Road two Sundays ago, you may have noticed several members of Dukes for Life positioned at various places, holding up signs with messages like “Abortion: Harmful to Women” and “Adoption: Still an Option.” Catchy as these anti-choice slogans may be, they are fundamentally detrimental and harmful to women. When […]
Read More Mythbustin’ Mondays: The truth behind catchy anti-choice slogansRead this. Sound crazy and not something that would happen in America, where Roe V. Wade constantly protects a woman’s right to choose? I often hear these arguments that consist of “Women all around the world have it worse.” Hell, as one my professors pointed out in class the other day: the media uses the Middle East […]
Read More I Hate To Be An Alarmist, But…Last Tuesday (Oct. 5th) Sarah Palin spoke at a fundraiser in Texas, in the course of her speech Palin pulled out some alarming words to describe pro-choice opponents. Our political system is no stranger to fear mongering and playing politics with words, especially considering the past 2 years. During her speech Palin plays on many of the […]
Read More Sarah Palin’s gonna scare me straight… and pro-life.This is a video I found on my friend’s facebook page. This video is of Gianna Jessen who is speaking at Queen’s Hall, Parliament House in Victoria, Australia on her surviving abortion. Her biological father and mother were 17 years old when they decided to undergo an abortion. Jessen speaks of her faith in Jesus […]
Read More The CompromiseJust a quick link: I wrote a blog post about going undercover to a crisis pregnancy center for the Trust Women PAC blog… check it out here if you’re interested!
Read More In the belly of the anti-choice beast