Showing posts with label Women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women's rights. Show all posts
Sunday, February 19, 2012
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MissRepresentation
Miss Representation 8 min. Trailer 8/23/11 from Miss Representation on Vimeo.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
This is bullshit
There is a good chance that we are only going to pull in half a paycheck on the 15th. All because some douchebags in Congress are willing to shut down the government in order to cut funding to Planned Parenthood and other family planning and women's health clinics, which provides many necessary services to many, many women.
Despite the fact that cutting the funding to these clinics will ultimately cost the government MUCH MUCH MORE than it will save. These clinics specialize in providing low-income women with check-ups, exams, pap smears, STD testing, and birth control. If these low income women aren't able to afford these services without the help of these clinics....how are they going to afford the unplanned pregnancies, children, diseases, and subsequent medical care that stems from having no access to regular women's health services?
They aren't....and the government will end up footing the bill.
But these fucktards are so invested in imposing their morality on the rest of the world that they are willing to screw over a large portion of the population (ie. the military, government workers, and anyone who will need to utilize any of the government services) so that they can exert some kind of control over women and their bodies.
I think Chloe over at Feministing put it best:
Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of hope that they do. It's been proven time and time again that women's rights and health are ALWAYS on the table if it's politically convenient.
Despite the fact that cutting the funding to these clinics will ultimately cost the government MUCH MUCH MORE than it will save. These clinics specialize in providing low-income women with check-ups, exams, pap smears, STD testing, and birth control. If these low income women aren't able to afford these services without the help of these clinics....how are they going to afford the unplanned pregnancies, children, diseases, and subsequent medical care that stems from having no access to regular women's health services?
They aren't....and the government will end up footing the bill.
But these fucktards are so invested in imposing their morality on the rest of the world that they are willing to screw over a large portion of the population (ie. the military, government workers, and anyone who will need to utilize any of the government services) so that they can exert some kind of control over women and their bodies.
I think Chloe over at Feministing put it best:
A citizen’s health is not a bargaining chip. A citizen’s health is not a political football. Unless, apparently, that citizen happens to be a woman, in which case, bargain and play ball. We’re only 51% of the population. We’re only responsible for gestating the next generation of Americans, so we don’t really need to be healthy. We’re only women, right, so who the fuck cares?
No, really, I wasn’t asking that rhetorically. Who the fuck cares? I sure as hell hope the Democrats do.
Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of hope that they do. It's been proven time and time again that women's rights and health are ALWAYS on the table if it's politically convenient.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
A lot of bullshit going on out there....
What the hell is going on with women's rights out there lately?
There are always states looking to circumvent a woman's right to choose using infuriating methods like mandatory counseling and wait times, "personhood" amendments, mandatory viewing of sonograms, and even forcing doctors to recite often blatantly false information from a script before allowing the woman to receive an abortion. These are all admitted attempts to make abortion so expensive, inconvenient, and challenging that most women will not be able to go through with their decision to abort.
Now, thanks to the Republican's in Congress, we have to deal nationally with things like the (ironically named) "Protect Life Act" that allows publicly funded hospitals to refuse any care or treatment that they feel might harm the fetus, and it allows them to refuse to provide abortions even in cases where the abortion is the only way to save that woman's life or transfer her to a hospital that will help her. This will effectively nullify the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act for pregnant women in need of lifesaving abortion services.
**The Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act, passed in 1986, requires publicly funded hospitals to provide emergency services (abortions included) to anyone who comes through the doors OR they have to stabilize them and transfer them to a hospital that will provide those services.**
Basically, they are admitting that they'd rather watch a woman die than allow her full control over her own reproduction. And that is all it amounts to....because abortion is not the only reproductive choice they want to curtail, Republican also want to eliminate Title X - federal funding that helps low-income women get their yearly check-ups, needed women's health appointments, and birth control; allowing them to stay healthy and have responsible sex lives (gasp!). And their outright disdain for civil welfare programs like Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, etc, shows that once that fetus exits the womb, they couldn't give less of a shit about it.
This Act comes right on the heels of another, even more disgusting measure like House Republicans attempt to redefine rape so that an even smaller margin of women qualified for federally funded abortion.
REDEFINING RAPE!
Luckily, enough people threw a fit about the redefinition that the House GOP retracted it. But the simple fact that they tried.............it's thoroughly repulsive.
And now, to top it all off, South Dakota - one of the hardest places to get an abortion in the entire US - is trying to make killing a doctor who performs abortions TOTALLY LEGAL.
Mother Jones reports:
There are always states looking to circumvent a woman's right to choose using infuriating methods like mandatory counseling and wait times, "personhood" amendments, mandatory viewing of sonograms, and even forcing doctors to recite often blatantly false information from a script before allowing the woman to receive an abortion. These are all admitted attempts to make abortion so expensive, inconvenient, and challenging that most women will not be able to go through with their decision to abort.
Now, thanks to the Republican's in Congress, we have to deal nationally with things like the (ironically named) "Protect Life Act" that allows publicly funded hospitals to refuse any care or treatment that they feel might harm the fetus, and it allows them to refuse to provide abortions even in cases where the abortion is the only way to save that woman's life or transfer her to a hospital that will help her. This will effectively nullify the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act for pregnant women in need of lifesaving abortion services.
**The Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act, passed in 1986, requires publicly funded hospitals to provide emergency services (abortions included) to anyone who comes through the doors OR they have to stabilize them and transfer them to a hospital that will provide those services.**
Basically, they are admitting that they'd rather watch a woman die than allow her full control over her own reproduction. And that is all it amounts to....because abortion is not the only reproductive choice they want to curtail, Republican also want to eliminate Title X - federal funding that helps low-income women get their yearly check-ups, needed women's health appointments, and birth control; allowing them to stay healthy and have responsible sex lives (gasp!). And their outright disdain for civil welfare programs like Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, etc, shows that once that fetus exits the womb, they couldn't give less of a shit about it.
This Act comes right on the heels of another, even more disgusting measure like House Republicans attempt to redefine rape so that an even smaller margin of women qualified for federally funded abortion.
REDEFINING RAPE!
Luckily, enough people threw a fit about the redefinition that the House GOP retracted it. But the simple fact that they tried.............it's thoroughly repulsive.
And now, to top it all off, South Dakota - one of the hardest places to get an abortion in the entire US - is trying to make killing a doctor who performs abortions TOTALLY LEGAL.
Mother Jones reports:
Ugh. I have a headache. And I need a drink."A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.
The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Jensen, a committed foe of abortion rights, alters the state's legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language stating that a homicide is permissible if committed by a person "while resisting an attempt to harm" that person's unborn child or the unborn child of that person's spouse, partner, parent, or child. If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman's father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion—even if she wanted one. "
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