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2 days to protect women’s health

Sep 18th, 2008
by gazelle.
1 comment

From the ACLU website:

George W. Bush has launched a new assault on birth control and reproductive freedom.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed regulations that could seriously undermine access to basic reproductive health services — including birth control and abortion.

Instead of striking a careful balance between individual religious liberty and patients’ access to reproductive health care, the Bush administration has taken patients’ rights and their health care needs out of the equation.

This far-reaching proposal doesn’t need congressional approval. But, it can’t go forward without allowing for public comment. That’s where you come in.

The deadline for public comments is fast approaching — September 20 — and we have to generate intense opposition to these dangerous regulations.

I just sent HHS my comment urging them to stop efforts to block women’s access to basic reproductive health services. You can do the same here:

http://action.aclu.org/hhs_comment

 

Regardless of whether one is pro-choice or not, I think that it’s important to maintain access to birth control. Without access to contraception, there would be many more unwanted pregnancies, which would, in turn, mean an increase in abortions – not something anyone wants.

Please contact the Department of Heath & Human Services TODAY. You can use the form letter linked above, or craft your own – but don’t let this slide. 

For more information, you can see Bitch, PhD’s post on this as well.

question….

Sep 4th, 2008
by gazelle.
6 comments

If you’re for a government that doesn’t interfere with the people, ’cause you know they can make the best choices, then how can you reasonably be anti-choice?

Just wondering.

Also – if you’re looking to be elected for four more years of the same party, how much “change” can you really campaign for?

If I were playing the RNC drinking game (drink every time someone says POW or maverick, finish the drink if someone says moose), I’d be wasted now.  Good think I’m waiting for Kim to show up so we can go for a walk.

This just in….

Sep 3rd, 2008
by gazelle.
3 comments

apparently John McCain was a POW!  Who knew?

I’m so ready for the election.

September Goals

Sep 2nd, 2008
by gazelle.
12 comments

I was reading JeepGirl’s goals for September (and her August recap) and I thought – that is a damn good idea. I did do the 101 in 1,001 at the beginning of the year – but that is WAAAY too many goals for me. I’m really a 3-5 goals at a time kinda girl. And short periods of time, otherwise I forget.

I decided that I needed 5 September goals

1) Track food for 30 days

2) Initiate passport renewal process

3) Do 15 minutes of cardio a day, following physical therapist’s plan to the letter!

4) Get garden prepped

5) Attend pirate festival

***awkward segue to political rant***

Also, if I hear one more statement about how keeping a baby with Down Syndrome or not getting an abortion when you find out you’re pregnant at 17 means you’re pro-life, I might stab someone (obviously I am not pro-life).  If I got pregnant right now, it would definitely NOT be planned.  I would keep the baby.  If I got pregnant right now, and found out that the baby had Down syndrome, I would keep the damn baby.  I would name it Neville and start a therapy fund, and refer to it as “that damn baby” (ha ha – just kidding!), but I would keep it.  And I am definitely not anti-choice.  Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion.  Asshats.  Seriously!  When people equate having babies to being pro-life (or anti-choice, as I prefer to call it), then they just sound stupid.  Many, many people who are pro-choice have babies.  If I’d gotten pregnant at 17, I don’t know what I would have done, but whatever I hypothetically would have chosen had the occasion arisen, would not have changed my stance, as firm then as it is now, that I am 100% decidedly pro-choice.

I am NOT, however, pro-abstinence-only education.  And I think maybe the argument there is that perhaps a 17 year old girl, who has been thrust unfairly into the national spotlight by the prominence of her anti-choice, pro-abstinence-only mother is pregnant at 17, and I was not.  You know what keeps teens from getting pregnant?  Birth control.

End rant.

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