In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity - Iron Jawed Angels
The passage of health care reform is an historic victory. But at what price? The most pro-choice president we’ve had in a long time sacrificed low-income women’s reproductive rights for this ‘victory.’ But we can’t just blame Obama:
There has not been a major pro-choice political win at the federal level since Roe v. Wade. [...]
It’s been 37 years since the Supreme Court ruled that a woman had a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, and not a day has gone by that someone, somewhere attempted to whittle away women’s access to that right. While the legality of abortion seems safe enough for the moment, the reality of accessing abortion [...]
Today is officially a day of action: to get women out from under the health care bus and get them driving it.
So, women, let’s get out from under the bus.
Health care reform has proven to be the single greatest threat to a woman’s human rights in over 30 years. Who would’ve thought that improving US [...]
The Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortions, is an indefensible obstruction to women’s reproductive freedom. All the debate on Stupack-Pitts and Nelson-Hatch has revealed the true purpose of Hyde: to prevent women from having abortions. No, that’s not even right, it is to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. Preventing abortions [...]
With a nice return to sanity, the Nelson-Hatch amendment was tabled by the Senate late yesterday. Nelson-Hatch was the Senate version of Stupack, which will not allow women access to abortion services if it becomes part of the new health care reform. It is a minor victory, but heartening nonetheless.
I didn’t watch or listen to [...]