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The Problem with Pink

1/31/2012

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No, this isn't a rant about how I hate the color pink and how retailers and designers think that if it's for a woman it has to be pink...that's for a different blog.

As you should be aware by now - the Susan G. Komen foundation has pulled its grant money from Planned Parenthood. Bowing to pressure from anti-choice zealots, the Komen Foundation has sold its soul to the anti-choicers to sell a few more pink KitchenAid mixers. This pisses me off on a multitude of levels...first, I support Planned Parenthood - they are a baseline, safety net for thousands of women. This move undermines the mission that the Komen Foundation supposedly stands for.

Second - because well, I don't like the Komen Foundation much to begin with. I feel their incessant pinkification of EVERYTHING detracts attention from ya know...CANCER. I support Awareness organizations that actually worry about awareness - rather than product placement. (Like my birthday wish to raise money for Lung Cancer Alliance).

Let me be perfectly clear - I fucking HATE Cancer. (Full Disclosure: My mom died at the age of 43 of lung cancer, she survived 3 months after diagnosis. Lung Cancer kills more people than breast, prostate, liver, colon, kidney and melanoma cancers COMBINED - yet we turn everything pink). I appreciate the strides that have been made, thanks in part to money raised by the Komen Foundation - but I really feel they have lost their way.

I stand with Planned Parenthood - The Komen Foundation will not get another dime of my money. 

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Simplicity (A.K.A. Calling Out Hypocrisy)

1/30/2012

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State Senator Janet Howell from Fairfax, Virginia (recent recipient of my first ever KICKASS Award) did something very simple to put the hypocrisy of many anti-choice bills front and center.

When the legislature was to vote on a mandatory ultrasound bill - Senator Howell added an amendment that required men to under go a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before being prescribed medication for erectile dysfunction. The purpose was pretty clear - to show that many anti-choice legislators have no problem making a woman jump through hoops before using her Constitutionally protected right to reproductive health care, but shudder at the idea of making a man drop his trousers before getting a boner pill. (Big surprise her amendment failed - my guess would be about 90% of those that voted against her amendment use Viagra).

But lets look at this for a minute, if knowledge and understanding is really what the antis are trying to accomplish by these types of bills - then wouldn't they support a man knowing that he could have a massive coronary while on a less-than-4-hour-if-more-than-4-hours-go-to-the-ER boinkfest with his secretary? Once again it is obvious that these bills have NOTHING to do with healthcare, this is about coercion, humiliation and hoop jumping - nothing more. 

Here's a clue for all you Anti-Choice legislators:

WOMEN KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PREGNANT.

If they have made the decision to terminate - they know EXACTLY what that means. It is insulting, degrading and down right sexist to imply otherwise.

So thank you Senator Howell - please run for higher office. 

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Brownbackistan Holds a Pep Rally

1/23/2012

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“Kansas is now a pro-life state, and we’re not going back,” Gov. Sam Brownback said to a roaring applause from a crowd of more than 1,000."

There was a rally on the steps of the state capitol this morning - cheering the erosion of rights for women throughout the state.

I wish there would be a point when I could stop being embarrassed of my state - but while reading about the anti-woman, anti-choice, pro-Government-intrusion rally...I made the mistake of reading one of the comments..I really should know better.  Honestly, it made me livid.
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Do you see it? "if a women (sic) wants to cut out her uterus she is free to do so."  Well, Dr. Boxlock_ that is actually absolutely positively false - unless of course you are talking about a woman of means. For example - I have been begging for a hysterectomy for about 10 years now. Due to various "female" issues and a strong family history of cancer - I'm of the opinion that I'm not using it and well, there is a chance it's going to kill me. A wee bit irrational, yes, I'll admit that - however - if I really could "cut out" my uterus, like Mr. Boxlock_ thinks I can, then I probably would have done it by now. I was actually told that because I have no kids and wasn't a certain age yet - that no doctor would touch me. The doctor also told me if I had already had a couple kids, she'd "take it out tomorrow". *sigh*

Yes, it was a female doctor - no I didn't go back to her.

The antis always like to say that a woman's opportunity for choice is before she has sex - yet they work to undermine sex ed, rail against contraception, refuse to consider that abortion might be a good option for some women, gut social safety net funding and public education. I fail to see how that is "pro-life" at all. 


As Randi Rhodes says "Love the fetus, hate the child"






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Thanks to Roe...

1/22/2012

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Today - I wanted to reaffirm my support of a woman's right to choose. I have been neglecting my site and blog - partly due to activist burnout, partly due to a demanding job. That got me thinking...

So much legislative action has been focused on whittling away that the basic right to birth control and abortion - that a woman's basic right to support herself is under attack.


The goal of these laws are not only to undermine the most basic rights of women, but to control us - if a woman cannot control the spacing and number of pregnancies, it is going to be much harder for a woman to be productive in the workforce. These laws have the effect of making women second class citizens. We have the right to work, we have the right to support ourselves and our families, we have the right to decide what happens to our bodies and we have the right to control our family size. It's that simple. There is no more common ground to come to - we have given up everything we can give up, any more "compromise" and the cause is lost. I, for one, will not go quietly. 
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