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History, politics & culture as this woman sees it. The serious, the kitsch, the opinionated. A place to connect with Herstory at Facebook.
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Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
In case you wondered what all the tampon talk was about. (I can hardly wait for Rachel Maddow tonight!)
Deanna Dahlsad's comment,
July 16, 2013 2:13 AM
Rachel Maddow is my hero fav http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/
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Today at the Senate committee hearing for the omnibus anti-abortion bill - Senate Bill 1 - Katie Heim (@katieh1022) read this poem. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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WASHINGTON -- North Carolina House Republicans are pushing legislation that would restrict abortion access, attaching the measure to an unrelated motorcycle safety bill on Wednesday and giving neither the public nor Democratic legislators any advance notice.
On Wednesday morning, state Rep. Joe Sam Queen (D) wrote on Twitter, "New abortion bill being heard in the committee I am on. The public didn't know. I didn't even know."
"I wish I had more time to look at this new bill before I had to ask questions about it or debate it," he added.
The bill then passed the state House Judiciary Committee in a 10-5 party-line vote.
The stealth maneuver came after North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) threatened to veto a similar Senate bill on Wednesday morning. The Senate legislation would require abortion providers to meet strict licensing standards and would mandate that a doctor is present for the entire procedure. Via Michael Charney, J'nene Solidarity Kay
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
This patern is insane
Michael Charney's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 2:12 PM
Yet another act in the ongoing drama in NC. It would be funny if it weren't so serious. Once again, it's up to the public to make the necessary noise... M. Charney 
J'nene Solidarity Kay's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 2:17 PM
This smarty pants political gaming made possible by gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the elected who suck up to big money. #FreeTheElected.
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After calling Gov. Dalrymple, I called my state legislators too. And then I sent this letter via email to all as well in response to all the insanity occurring in...
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The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee recommended a bill yesterday that would effectively allow doctors to lie or withhold information about debilitating genetic conditions or birth defects in order to influence women’s decisions about their pregnancies.
Kansas SB 142 provides blanket protection from “wrongful birth” lawsuits to doctors, with section 1(a) reading:
“No civil action may be commenced in any court for a claim of wrongful life or wrongful birth, and no damages may be recovered in any civil action for any physical condition of a minor that existed at the time of such minor’s birth if the damages sought arise out of a claim that a person’s action or omission contributed to such minor’s mother not obtaining an abortion.”
[MORE - click headline] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
BethBrown's comment,
March 4, 2013 1:16 PM
This bill does not protect doctors who lie or misinform patients. We can't expect doctors to be able to identify and predict 100% of birth defects. If you aren't willing to take the child that nature gives you, then adopt one of the many already born children who needs a home and fits your idea of the perfect child.
Deanna Dahlsad's comment,
March 5, 2013 12:32 AM
This bill is not about protecting doctors from the inability of science to see or identify birth defects; it fundamentally exists to pave the way to limit and restrict abortions. That is abundantly clear. And, should you be willing to accept facts, note that most women opting for abortions, including, but not limited to, those seeking to end pregnancies for a child with a birth defect -- those women do so not because they wish to defy nature or abhor it, but rather do so for the awareness that they cannot emotionally, physically, and (perhaps most painfully real) financially endure what they would be responsible for as a parent. These women know who would suffer the most in this society which abandons and judges so harshly -- the future child. AND, these people, despite their good judgement based on pragmatic self-awareness are the very same people who are least likely to be allowed to adopt in this country based on their soci-economic class. So your comments are both ill-informed and overly-simplistic.
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Exactly, Deanna.
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For today, we don't even have the right to enjoy our homes, our private spaces, without fearing violence, rape, or worse. And when we dare to point that out, we are not merely dismissed, we are punished.
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
February 24, 2013 5:50 AM
The history of domestic violence repeating itself.
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Late last month, a New Mexico state representative introduced a bill that would further punish women who are raped, as if sexual violence isn’t enough of a violation. The original bill was based on the notion that having an abortion following a rape equated “tampering with evidence” and would have made abortion in case of rape a felony offense. The absurdity of the bill eventually led to it being withdrawn, but that the idea of forcing raped women into pregnancy and motherhood was proposed at all—and in a state where one in four women reports having been raped—is odious to say the least.
While this bill was particularly offensive, every day of every week several state legislatures are hard at work creating more and more restrictions to punish both women in need of abortion and the medical professionals providing safe abortion care.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Someone you know has been or is going to be stigmatized like this until we change the status quo.
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"What if gun rights were regulated like abortion rights? Here’s a list of just some of the hoops you’d have to jump through before you could own a gun: Only one store in the entire state would sell guns..."
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Think.
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ThinkProgressSeverely Conservative Appeals Court Blocks Access To Birth ControlThinkProgressIn a brief, one sentence order yesterday, the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit temporarily stayed Judge Jackson's decision. Via Thomas Schmeling
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Change.org
Equal Rights Amendment: SJ Res.21 - HJ Res.69 - SJ Res.39 and HJ Res.47
This has been going on for far too long. Although we realize that there are still three more states needed to ratify - it's still VERY important for us to let Congress and the President know that we still care, we still want this and we are still fighting for it.
Let's get this done! [THE PETITION] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Opposition to legislation dashes equality hopes in West African country's strongly patriarchal society...
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by JOHN PARKINSON, ABC News Blogs
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisc., who joined Pelosi in introducing the [Violence Against Women] legislation, said, “Violence against women is as American as apple pie.”
“Domestic violence has been a thread throughout my personal life — up to and including being a child repeatedly sexually assaulted, up to and including being an adult who’s been raped.”
“This law has helped ensure that more victims report domestic violence to the police, that the rate of non-fatal intimate partner violence against women has been decreased by 53 percent, in that period of time,” she said. “Rape crisis centers have been able to keep their doors open [and] law enforcement and victims’ services providers are working together to better meet the needs of victims.”
“Unfortunately violence is not limited to just Democrats or just Republicans or just blacks or just whites,” Moore, the Democratic Co-Chair of the Congressional Women’s Caucus, said. “It’s not limited to heterosexual relationships, but there are relationships of all kinds that are exposed to domestic violence.”
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by ELENA SHORE, New America Media
2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence?
Maybe not.
In 2011, U.S. states enacted 135 new reproductive health provisions, 92 of them seeking to restrict abortion.
In 2000, 13 states were considered “hostile” to reproductive rights; by 2011, that number had doubled to 26 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Last year, more than half of women of reproductive age (15-44) were living in states that were hostile to abortion, up from less than one-third in 2000.
But 2011 was also a record year for anti-immigrant legislation. Five states (Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah) passed anti-immigrant bills modeled after Arizona’s 2010 law, SB 1070. An analysis by Mother Jones found that 164 anti-immigration laws were passed by state legislatures in 2010 and 2011.
Here’s a look at five states where anti-immigrant and anti-choice efforts converge: [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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The ACLU won a round this week in its court challenge to a Kansas law passed during the 2011 legislative session. There are a few court challenges being waged in Kansas and the cost of these challenges continues to rise. ...
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The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”
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RH Reality Check
As Republicans shut down the vote on the proposal, Franson explained that she was “embarrassed” that contraception was even being talked about by the House. [MORE]
[Adults -- legislators, yet -- should be more embarrassed by being unable to discuss grown-up things.] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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This is just atrocious. Why would anyone want to punish women in such a way?
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by ROBIN MARTY, RH Reality Check It's officially over. The Idaho House has announced that it will not be holding a hearing on the forced ultrasound bill before the session ends this week, meaning that the bill is officially dead for 2012.
[This article has been updated to add a response from Hannah Brass, Legislative Director of Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest.]
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by THOMAS, Blog for Choice
While eyes were turned on the Supreme Court today, another front in the War on Women was being waged across the street.
The anti-choice leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives moved one step closer to passing yet another anti-choice attack.
The House Judiciary Committee today voted on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA), a.k.a. the "Arrest Grandma" Act.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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NARAL Pro Choice America
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law an opportunity to remind Americans what women would lose if efforts to overturn the law succeed.
On March 26, the Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments from opponents who want to overturn the law. NARAL Pro-Choice America will mobilize its supporters on Tuesday, March 27, the day on which health-care advocates will focus on how the law helps women get affordable care.
Keenan adds, “Since these anti-choice politicians have decided to take their War on Women to the Supreme Court, we’ll meet them at the steps.”
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by MARA GANDAL-POWERS, National Women's Law Center via RH Reality Check
The House of Representatives is currently considering a bill, H.R. 5, which would reform medical malpractice laws. Several Congresswomen drafted an amendment to this bill which would have limited the bill’s malpractice protections if the malpractice claim is based on a violation of the health care reform law related to the women’s preventive health services. The Congresswomen went through the usual steps that an amendment must go through before it can be proposed.... And then the Rules Committee attempted to silence these women, just as Rep. Issa tried to silence Sandra Fluke.
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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