Thanks for reminding my husband that even though he’s an "American hero" he and military families are expendable.
Thanks for waging a war and sinking our money into a country that has been at war for centuries. Wait, that’s not even paid for yet….thanks China.
Oh, but even if we do get paid for doing our job you’re going to screw over the poor people most of which are too sick to work. Yes its their fault for being “lazy” with cancer, hip replacements, or PTSD from one of your past wars.
And you’re going to punish ½ of South Carolina’s kids, the ½ that are on Medicaid because its their fault they grew up with “lazy” parents.
That sounds like something Jesus would do, crush the poor and abandon children.
And when we start getting paid again you get to tell me what’s best for my family and my options as a woman for health care.
You preach “no government control” until it comes to my uterus or even the conversations I have with my doctor.
Thanks for reminding everyone that medical care is not a right, its a privilege in this society. And destroying medical benefits under the guise of abortion.
Let’s distract everyone and complain about NPR and PBS! Those communist bastards are eating up one tenth of one percent of the budget.
Considering recent events, I’ve designed and released a new waterproof laminated vinyl sticker pack! Proceeds from these stickers will be going to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.
This is something I’m very passionate about, as I truly believe all people deserve control over their body. Reproductive choice is a human right, and no one should be able to force that choice on other people. Just because someone has a uterus it does not mean that anyone gets to dictate what they do with it. Right now it’s more important than ever to take steps to support people who are having their reproductive rights stripped from them!
If you ever question whether or not misogyny is dead, go read the comments under any The Vagina Monologues video on YouTube and bask in the knowledge toxic masculinity is alive and well.
Polish Minister of Health approved the creation of pregnancy register which means that doctors will be gathering data about their pregnant patients.
not only legal abortion in Poland is basically impossible, now it’ll be extremely difficult to get abortion abroad or to perform it yourself using meds (basically: there will be proof that a person was pregnant and no longer is, which could be used against them).
Polish government really does hate women.
This is what leads to arresting women for having miscarriages. Someone who has an unwanted pregnancy won’t ever go to their doctor; why would they? They’ll get an abortion and their doctor never knew. The consequence of this will be jailing people who are already devastated because they lost their pregnancy.
Years after the 9/11 attacks, all you would see are the “heros” of 9/11 AKA cis straight white males. Never do we here about the poor Muslims who felt pushed to this by capitalist enslavement of their home in the middle east. Nor the victims/heros who may have been trans, queer, nonbinary, of color, or female. I hold the media accountable for this injustice and DEMAND them interview the heros of 9/11 who were actually affected, unlike these privileiged rapist pigs!
9/11 Was only done by straight, white men that were looking for attention. Not only was there no diversity, but they didn’t even include women. And that wasn’t just the “terrorists”, either, but also the US. Not one PoC newscaster informing the people about the deed. Honestly, if it isn’t doing all races and genders justice, it shouldn’t even be televised. It’s just hate speech. Women aren’t being represented by all sides of these actions, and it’s sickening.
Simone Veil (1927-2017) was a French lawyer and politician. She survived Auschwitz-Birkenau but lost most of her family during WWII. After the war, she studied political science at the University of Paris and became an attorney. In 1964 she got the post of Director of Civil Affairs, where she worked on improving the general rights and status of French women.
She is most known for legalizing abortion in France as Minister of Health in 1975. She stayed active in French politics until 2007 at the age of 80.
At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) was targeted and shot by Talbian militants on her way to school - all for daring to speak up in support of girls’ and women’s rights to education. Three years later, she is one of the strongest voices of feminism and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
She began her advocacy when she was only 11, writing a blog for the BBC describing life under Taliban rule. Her rise in popularity in the Western world made her a target to extremists, but the attempt on her life did nothing but strengthen her conviction and make her cause heard by even more people all around the world.
It has now been almost 8 years since her attack. In that time, she graduated from the University of Oxford and continued her work to increase access to female education and to improve refugee rights.
On March 3, 1913, protesters parted for the woman in white: dressed in a flowing cape and sitting astride a white horse, the activist Inez Milholland was hard to miss.
She was riding at the helm of the Women’s Suffrage Parade - the first mass protest for a woman’s right to vote on a national scale. After months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. Here, they called for a constitutional amendment granting them the right to vote.
By 1913, women’s rights activists had been campaigning for decades. As a disenfranchised group, women had no voice in the laws that affected their – or anyone else’s – lives. However, they were struggling to secure broader support for political equality. They’d achieved no major victories since 1896, when Utah and Idaho enfranchised women. That brought the total number of states which recognized a women’s right to vote to four.
Alice Paul, inspired by the British suffragettes, proposed a massive pageant to whip up support and rejuvenate the movement. Washington authorities initially rejected her plan—and then tried to relegate the march to side streets. But Paul got those decisions overturned and confirmed a parade for the day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. This would maximize media coverage and grab the attention of the crowds who would be in town.
However, in planning the parade, Paul mainly focused on appealing to white women from all backgrounds, including those who were racist. She actively discouraged African American activists and organizations from participating - and stated that those who did so should march in the back.
But Black women would not be made invisible in a national movement they helped shape. On the day of the march, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a ground-breaking investigative journalist and anti-lynching advocate, refused to move to the back and proudly marched under the Illinois banner. The co-founder of the NAACP, Mary Church Terrell, joined the parade with the 22 founders of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, an organization created by female students from Howard University. In these ways and more, Black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk.
On the day of the parade, suffragists assembled to create a powerful exhibition. The surging sections of the procession included international suffragists, artists, performers and business-owners. Floats came in the form of golden chariots; an enormous Liberty Bell; and a map of enfranchised countries. On the steps of the Treasury Building, performers acted out the historical achievements of women to a live orchestra.
The marchers carried on even as a mob blocked the route, hurling insults and spitting at women, tossing cigars and physically assaulting participants. The police did not intervene, and in the end, over 100 women were hospitalized.
Their mistreatment, widely reported throughout the country, catapulted the parade into the public eye—and garnered suffragists greater sympathy. National newspapers lambasted the police, and Congressional hearings investigated their actions during the parade. After the protest, the Women’s Journal declared, “Washington has been disgraced. Equal suffrage has scored a great victory.”
In this way, the march initiated a surge of support for women’s voting rights that endured in the coming years. Suffragists kept up steady pressure on their representatives, attended rallies, and petitioned the White House.
On August 18, 1920, Congress ratified the 19th amendment, finally granting women the right to vote.
Ohio legislature has passed two restrictive abortion bills in their lame duck session. One bans abortion after 20 weeks; the other after 6 weeks. John Kasich has 10 days to sign these bills after they’ve been passed.
• Governor John Kasich (OH): 614-466-3555
ETA 12/13/2016: Kasich has vetoed the 6 week ban and signed the 20 week ban into law.
Late last night, the Senate Finance Committee approvedthe GOP tax plan, which guts the Affordable Care Act & includes dangerous “personhood” provision that lays groundwork to ban abortion outright.
Be sure to cast your ballot for pro-choice champions, including Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax and Mark Herring in VA, Manka Dhingra in WA, and Jen Jordan and Nikema Wililams in GA!
The GOP’s crazy obsession with banning all abortions in this country knows no end, no boundary, and no common sense. Their latest crazy, and clearly unconstitutional, idea is a ban that applies to women who don’t even know they’re pregnant yet, intentionally preventing them from accessing care altogether.
Take something small from a man, any man, and see how quickly they get upset. Yet, we’re supposed to be just fine with oppression. Just leave our rights alone!
