Mermaid Musings

I am truly sick of all the pandering to the right-wingnuts that is going on in the government these days. The debate on health care reform has gotten ridiculous with wingnuts claiming that the reforms will ‘kill your grandma’ by forcing older folks to submit to euthanasia or that senior citizens will be denied treatments [...]

I started writing this post last month and got interrupted, so I’m picking it up today.  Apologies for tardiness!
I read this posting from the National Advocates for Pregnant Women today. And while I don’t know all the details of the case, I found the concept of it highly disturbing. The short of it is that [...]

It’s nice when there’s good news in the news for a change!
First, the US Senate is moving toward legislation that will get rid of the global gag rule permanently. The back-and-forth that has ensued from this dispicable policy may finally be coming to an end. The rule prohibits any agency that receives US foreign aid [...]

Is this 2009 or 1821? Congress is hard at work on the health care reform and according to a Women’s Health Policy Report, there are efforts being made to exclude abortion from health care in the US. As if it weren’t bad enough that the Hyde Amendment prevents women on Medicaid, Federal employees and military [...]

Is the goal of reducing abortions really common ground for evangelical anti-abortion folks and the reproductive justice movement? A really good article examines some of the foundations of this new common ground.
I can’t really argue that reducing the need for abortion is a laudable goal, but as the author of the above article points out, [...]