Tag Archives: abortion

Red Red Wine in The Midnight Hour

This isn’t a plea­sant thing to read after drin­king a liter of an almost sweet red wine. A wine the wine-seller con­vin­ced us was meant to taste good with chocolate.

The Bart Stu­pak (D-Mich.) amend­ment to the House health bill, which would bar fede­ral fun­ding for most abor­tions, has pas­sed on a vote of 240  –  194. Democ­rats

Blogging For Choice

Today is the 36th anni­ver­sary of Roe v Wade.
The theme this year, and rightly so, is “what is your top pro-choice hope for Pre­si­dent Obama and/or the new Con­gress”?
My hope is that our legis­la­tu­res and our lea­der recog­ni­zes the right of a women to make deci­sions about her own phy­si­cal situa­tion. As we

All In A Women’s Day. Oil, Patriarchy, Power and Rolling Tone Deafness

UCLA poli­ti­cal science pro­fes­sor Michael Ross conc­lu­des in Oil, Islam, and Women (pdf) that oil is bad for women power and the beliefs that the gen­der ine­qua­li­ties in the Middle East are at the core of the region’s fai­lure to democ­ra­tize, and are lin­ked to a more gene­ral lack of tole­rance, are somewhat mis­pla­ced.
Oil