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 split 64-192 against the amendment, but 176 Republicans voted in favor of it while none opposed it and Jon Shadegg of Arizona voted present.

As if my head wasn’t about to explode already.

Now we can safely say that those without will remain without, because you know damn well Congressmen Stupak that your children, or your Republican friends children, can pay cash for those abortions, or have private insurance cover it, and that will allow them to continue their education, to assure they will take their rightful place in society.

This kind of amendment does nothing but punish those who don’t have the money to pay for their mistakes.

So this is what it has come to.

It’s disgraceful that this sham passed.

By the way, Congress passed that joke of a health care bill. Unfortunately the bill sucks balls. And you know that sucking balls is not something on my A list.

06 – Red Red Wine (12 Version)
Belch.

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 have seen in Mississippi, where there is but one state abortion clinic left, those most affected by this continue to be the poorest among us.The private clinics where those with substantial income can go still exist in Mississippi, as they existed in this country long before Roe v Wade. It is very clear those who have had the funds have been able to get abortions even in times where it wasn’t legal. We perpetrate the poverty when we take away choice. We need to make clear to our legislatures that we want protection in states which would deem to take away the rights of those choosing to terminate a pregnancy. Making the means to carry out these choices inaccessible, or in some cases illegal is a crime against the right of a woman.

No one has the right to take away choice, my choice or the choice of any women in this country.

Please get rid of abstinence only education policy and any codicil to policy and funding which require abstinence only education as a condition. Abstinence only education does not work.

Studies have continually shown that abstinence-only students have almost the same number of sexual partners, and have sex almost as early, as students who receive traditional sex ed. In fact, abstinence-only programs may actually increase the risk of STDs and unintentional teen pregnancies. That’s because those abstinence-only students who do have sex tend to be less likely to use protection.

Stop using religious figures and their work as examples in the fight against aids in Africa, ask Uganda where it is possible the success of their abstain, be faithful, use condoms program was undermined by the later sway away from the ABC approach to the US-backed abstinence-only programs, programs which may be responsible for an increase in risky behavior, as comprehensive sex education and condom promotion are no longer mainstream. The decease seen in Uganda with the ABC program appears to be suffering a reversal in fortune as a result.

Rick Warren’s Africa Problem
The history of AIDS in Uganda

Keep up to date at Reality Check and see what else you can do to help.

Choice for everyone means supporting the means of choice, be it the choice to have sex and protect with condoms, the choice of comprehensive sex education, or the choice to terminate a pregnancy.

While you are giving back rights to the world, please leave our rights alone.

Peace

Oil production affects gender relations by reducing
the presence of women in the labor force. The failure
of women to join the nonagricultural labor force
has profound social consequences: it leads to higher
fertility rates, less education for girls, and less female
influence within the family. It also has far-reaching political
consequences: when fewer women work outside
the home, they are less likely to exchange information
and overcome collective action problems; less likely to
mobilize politically, and to lobby for expanded rights;
and less likely to gain representation in government.
This leaves oil-producing states with atypically strong
patriarchal cultures and political institutions.

Using sound analysis — Yi,t – Yi,t-1 = ai + ß(xi,t-1 – xi,t-2) + (ei,t – ei,t-1) — he concludes “Petroleum perpetuates patriarchy“.

I know some of you will find it interesting. ;)

It’s an older paper I’d missed so, thanks to UTNE Petroleum = Patriarchy for the heads-up,

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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has been chosen to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Realizing it’s a lost cause, or possibly realizing it’s not their business, some have decided it might be better to try to reduce the number of abortions (not by supporting birth control efforts of course), or help those with unsupported pregnancies in other ways, and some people are pissed. Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus From Ban to Reduction

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And hey, Aretha number one in Rolling Stone’s List of Top Singers of all time. Only ten women in the top fifty. Who the heck votes Kurt Cobain a better singer than Bonnie Raitt, Gladys Knight, Patsy Cline, or even Christina for that matter, and since when is Dylan a singer, never mind the 7th greatest singer of all time?

I assumed they used Diebold’s cast-offs until I saw the hand ballots. I demand a recount, because some of those singers can hardly croak out a tune. You are Rolling Tone Deaf.