Because it is a war

 

If you are against abortion, you should be for sex education, birth control pills, free child care. Right?

 

Because they said no.

Sounds silly, right?  Well...

Writers, Trolls, Bedbugs and Reagan.

In response to the utterly awful obituary of Colleen McCullough, Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post tries her hand at some historical male figures.

Confronting an internet troll.

Dealing with bedbugs.

Is there Atrazine in your drinking water?  Is there

The Supreme Court at stake.

Solar power our national roads!!

An adventure with Google's self-driving car.

Colorado: doing it right.

Reminding us what Reagan did.

Christmas contraceptives

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Excellent overview of 2014.  Best science photos for 2014.

Weird methane readings on Mars... ALIENS!!!1

Bernie Sanders takes on the Koch brothers.

Saint Ronnie couldn't get elected dog catcher in these interesting teabaggery times...

Tampons may save your life...

If you can erase the word, the action never happened.  Right?

Institutionalized racism is hard to root out.

Chipping away at contraceptives.  And women aren't choosing to have more babies, they're just wiser with their birth control methods.  Cutting through the deliberately confusing terminology used when discussing abortion.

Women, grammar, and exercise!

What women were wearing when they were sexually attacked... debunking one myth about rape.  And myths about birth control.

English, the language of oopses.  And grammarphobia.

We're drinking the wrong kind of milk?  And look!  We've made a superbug to eat the supercorn!

What do you still do now that you did when you were poor?

Scars (nsfw)

No wonder I feel like California didn't have a winter!  We didn't!  And:

A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. 

Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common."

Fukushima fallout.

Elizabeth Warren and what she has done for you.

US Government to Deregulate Meat Industry

Scary scientist is scary.

Underwater archaeology.

Why this runner runs.

This and that

Lost in the last ten years.

And what we may have in the next ten.  And how we might be able to provide power.  And provide jobs.

Holy shit... San Francisco police out of control.

Caturday cat.  Kinda.

Polar vortex, my ass.

Revolutionizing the government.

The weirdness of those who attack birth control.

Making proper bread.

Logic has nothing to do with it.

Um this makes no sense...North Carolina Law Bans Police From Destroying The Guns They Seize

STOP THAT WITH YOUR NAUGHTY BITS!  And weird conspiracy theories held by some fundamentalists.

Beautiful and thoughtful response by an Australian politician to a pastor's question.  Why can't we get intelligent politicians like him?

Why we live longer today.

Harvesting the plastic out of the ocean.  Can it be done?

Climate change's effect on animals who change to winter coats.

The world's largest cave.

Dinosaurs to the death!

Heavy metal Vivaldi.

Trying to push the conservative viewpoint via student textbooks.

Aging in 5 minutes.

Exercise in absurdity.

The best birth control is for men.

Flowers, Funerals, and Falderal

Ancient grave shows use of flowers to honor the dead.

 Exactly, what he said.  Horsey captures it in one cartoon.

What men can do to stop the harassment of women online.  One man who supports a woman's right to choose.

Sleepy baby turned into art.

Republicans want to control your lady parts... so how about controlling manly bits as well?

No More Mister Nice Blog thinks the Voting Rights Act will not be saved.  I hope he's wrong.

Kitty parade.

Iain Banks' obit and writing pointers.

From someone who has lived in a communist country:

Truth is, American conservatives have remarkably a lot in common with Russian communists: the same obsession with ideological purity, the same irrational intolerance towards loyal dissent, the same prioritizing of ideology over practicality, the same preparedness to sacrifice liberties, human dignity and lives for the sake of ideological totems, the same clash-of-civilizations thinking, the same pretensions at worldwide cultural and political hegemony. And of course, the modern American conservative and the Russian communist of the bygone era share a deep and abiding dislike of people having unauthorized sex in pursuit of “instant gratification”.

Problems? What problems?

Concern over Sri Lanka kidney disease

Incurable ailment linked by researchers to farming chemicals prompts calls for controls on pesticide use.

Who cares about the poor anyway? U.S. military’s secret experiment sprayed radiation on low-income housing

Droning on takes on a whole new meaning...

Can we just start calling them lies now? At Last Night’s Debate: Romney Told 27 Myths In 38 Minutes  and 10 Pieces Of Proof That Mitt Romney Thinks You're Stupid and Rachel Maddow is keeping track and David Corn notes Romney's flip on the 47 percent.

If you don't support this, you aren't against abortion.  You're against sex.

Abortion rates plummet with free birth control.

Ducks that had been kept in a pen all their lives are introduced to water for the first time. You think you have problems....

Standing up for logic and reason

Missouri tries to pass a 'Right to Pray' act that sneaks in a part about kids being able to refuse to be taught about evolution and science.  Death threats to the woman reporter who wrote the expose.

Teaching people not to smoke:



A simple explanation of how 'Obamacare' works.

Birth control pills work.

Protecting our bees.

The war on women, past and future

Thank you, madam, for helping women make their own reproductive choices.

Dr. Jean Pakter, a former health official who made New York City a national model for providing safe, legal abortions and led an innovative effort to educate women about the benefits of birth control, prenatal nutrition and breast-feeding, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 101.

And yet, there is a lack of understanding about reproductive control as a right and some people will never give up trying to stuff women back into a fairy tale make-believe pseudo 1950s life style, where men were men, women were in awe, and minorities knew their place. Times they are a changin' guys.  Finding out that women are humans like men and have feelings comes as a shock to some....

Melinda Gates wants family planning back on the global agenda

Yes, please and thank you.



*edited because I decided to rename Ms. Gates and someone took offense...

Roar!

Brazen hussies unleashed!

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If cats reported the news

Take it away, Stripes!

Dammit, who opened the catnip drawer?.... Snuffles, What do you have for us?

O'Reilly: "Many Women Who Get Pregnant Are Blasted Out Of Their Minds When They Have Sex. They're Not Going To Use Birth Control Anyway"

Rick Perry Asked Why More Kids Are Getting Pregnant in Texas

His answer? Abstinence and Jesus work, ignore the data!

And from Fox News: Free Birth Control Is Liberal Conspiracy To ‘Eradicate The Poor’

Let's condense this here: No sex education, no birth control, and of course no abortions because women are hussies anyway....

Rep. Allen West would agree with that. Bill O'Reilly agrees with West. Dammed hussies! Maybe that's all they understand. Don't you agree, Socks?

Cinnamon reporting in: There are people out there who think The Onion is a true news organization...

How's Washington, Cinnamon?

Trying to scrape the debt crisis off on Obama won't work.

And it's tough to negotiate with crazy.

And here we go..

The end result in anti-abortion efforts. A 'friend' of the sister turned this woman in:

Unable to afford the doctors visits and medical bills associated with an actual medical abortion, Jennie L. McCormack of Idaho instead had her sister purchase drugs online to ingest in order to cause a miscarriage. McCormack, who is the mother of three, is now being charged with "unlawful abortion" according to the Associated Press.

If McCormack is found guilty, she could be subject to a $5,000 penalty as well as up to five years in prison.

And in comments on Facebook where this article was shared, something I agree with:

I just love how when I talk to anti-choicers about the ways in which we can work together to help end abortion by making sure every woman has easy access to contraception and hammering the facts about safe sex into our youths' heads through comprehensive sex-education, they suddenly clam up and get silent. That just proves to me that they don't really care about reducing abortion & unwanted pregnancies, they just want to control people.

Update: And further into the fringes: Anti-Abortion Groups Push To Outlaw Contraceptives By Redefining Personhood

Update 6/6: More on the woman who had to carry her baby to term even though the amniotic sac had broken and the baby would not develop lungs properly. All because of the anti-abortion pro-life laws that had been passed in the state. The baby suffocated to death at birth.

War on contraception and the women's right to choose

Amanda Marcotte:

Unfortunately, barring some miraculous turn of events in the courts that shut this all down, we can probably expect to see more of this on the state and local level in conservative areas. A switch has been flipped in the conservative movement, and it’s not enough anymore to simply oppose abortion rights anymore, but to move even more radically in a direction of denying women any right to control their bodies whatsoever.

As I have said repeatedly, it all comes down to sex. And the control or total denial of it for women, those hussies! Unless it's for husbands and their insured Viagra....

I thought this map was a joke

But apparently not.

10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

South Dakota, Virginia, Arizona, Minnesota, Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Idaho.

Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

Walk for Choice