March 2012
California bill would let non-doctors do some... →
Amazing news from California: state legislators have suggested a law that would allow health professionals outside of just OBGYNs to provide abortions. Increased access? Hurray!
-Jess
"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to listen to the Doctor...
“When she worked the streets, Yvette Gonzales said, she frequently saw other...”
– Albany Bill Would Bar Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution - NYTimes.com
Good article about no condoms as evidence legislation.
Two things, though (always! always with the critique):
There’s no mention of how the collection of condoms as evidence of prostitution is an act of profiling people of...
February 2012
I am a cat, I don't know how anyone else can't...
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It is amazing that this is real life...
Comments such as these
I’d rather a few victims be deterred from coming forward than a few completely innocent people be accused of crimes they did not commit
I know. What about the future victims of false accusations? That person’s name is dragged through the mud throughout the process. Let’s assume they are exonerated. What they have gone through? Well a very stressful...
“I don’t think any parent in America who has a child would think it snobbery to...”
– White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
White House responds to Rick Santorum ‘snob’ comment, declines to hit back - POLITICO.com
(via apsies)
