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Dear GOP: You do know how pregnancy works, right?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by | 27 Comments

I have been pregnant four times.

These pregnancies led to the following four results, in this order: abortion, baby, miscarriage, baby.

These pregnancies occurred over a span of many years, across two continents, and in three different homes. There were at least seven different health care professionals involved, my hair styles varied widely, as did my levels of nausea. The only constant, in all four cases, other than me, was the presence of a penis.

It happened to be the penis I eventually married, but regardless, that is how pregnancy works. No matter who you are, no matter your sexuality, ability to reproduce, or family make-up, if there are children in your life, at some point along the way, there was a penis involved.

I mention this only because it seems the GOP may have forgotten.

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Arizona Law Would Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using Birth Control [updated]

Posted on March 13, 2012 by | 75 Comments

Dude naw.

 Some nutbag in Arizona — a woman, no less — authored a bill that would allow employers to interrogate their female employees about their sexual practices.

No seriously.

You might want to sit down for this one, actually.

Ready?

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Posted in Balloon Juice Cross-Posts, War on Women

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Religious Liberties: Losing The Battle They Lost 22 Years Ago

Posted on February 12, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Thinking to myself this weekend about President Obama’s brilliant move on birth control coverage , it’s occurred to me that the Supreme Court absolutely must have dealt with the question of religious liberties versus federal law before now, otherwise we would have heard this argument sooner.

On Twitter, Matt Yglesias was one step ahead of me and noted this 1990 Supreme Court decision on just how far a person’s First Amendment religious liberties go when it comes to resisting laws they don’t agree with morally.  The case was Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, where two Oregon men were fired and denied unemployment benefits for using peyote.

The two men claimed that the law against peyote use violated their religious liberties because they consumed it as part of a Native American religious ceremony.  The lower court in Oregon agreed and reversed the decision that denied them unemployment benefits.  The State of Oregon appealed the case up to the Supreme Court.  The 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court held the following (emphasis mine):

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Posted in Lady Bits, Legal Shenanigans, War on Women, Zandar

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My President is a feminist.

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 12 Comments

Here’s what President Obama said about the birth control contre-temps:

No woman’s health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much money she makes. Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health. Period.

That’s what feminism sounds like.

Crossposted at Emily L. Hauser In My Head.

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Posted in Body/Health Shenanigans, Emily L. Hauser, Obama 2012: Yes We Will!, Obamacare? No, ObamaCares!, Respect, War on Women

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Attention, Male Talking Heads on My Teevee: Listen to Rachel, Please

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | 28 Comments

When men can get pregnant, I’ll be interested in their opinions about birth control.

Any of y'all got a uterus? Didn't think so! STFU

My love affair with Rachel Maddow runs hot/cold. Precisely because she’s so smart and incisive, when she’s wrong it is more infuriating than when a dumber, less attentive pundit swings and misses yet again.

But all the elderly white men, most of them Catholics, who are hyping “Obama’s War on Catholicism” beyond any reasonable understanding of the actual American electorate, and the actual relationship between Catholics and their own leadership, need to have a seat and watch Rachel.

Yes, Chris Matthews, I’m looking at you. And you, Lawrence O’Donnell, and you, Mark Shields, and you, E.J. Dionne.

Pull up a chair. Comfy? Ready? OK, click play and learn.

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The Colbert Report: "A woman's health decisions are between her priest and her husband."

Posted on August 4, 2011 by | 3 Comments

This was BRILLIANT.

The T-rex bit had me in stitches. STITCHES, I SAY!

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Women’s Health-Nazi Plan
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

You’re welcome.

P.S. Yeah, Obama is totes a Republican.

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I’ll take any good news you got.

Posted on August 3, 2011 by | 2 Comments

In the Sometimes- Good-News-Comes-in-Tiny-Increments-But-It’s-Still-Good-News-Department (aka: The Department of SGNCITIBISGN):

1) Judge blocks Kan. law stripping Planned Parenthood of fed. funding, says law unlikely to last

An incredulous federal judge on Monday rejected the state’s claim that a new Kansas statute that denied Planned Parenthood federal funding did not target the group, ruling that the law unconstitutionally intended to punish Planned Parenthood for advocating for abortion rights and would likely be overturned.

(My favorite word here is mos def “incredulous.”)

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