Abortion and the Health Care Battle – The New Yorker
Abortion in Tanzania – The Guardian
New FBI Data Shows Sharp Increase in Anti-Gay Hate Crimes – Think Progress
Mexico to Consider Constitutional Ban on Abortion – National Partnership for Women & Families
Former Kansas Attorney General’s Assistant on Trial for Illegal Investigation of Planned Parenthood & Dr. Tiller [...]
How Did Your Rep Vote on Health Care Reform? – Womenstake
Pro-choice Democrats Vow to Vote Against Health Care Bill if Abortion Amendment Stays – Washington Post
Why Everyone Should Have Pre-Marital Sex – Feministing
AIDS Leading Cause of Death for Women – AP
Fred Phelps Protests the Obama Girls – Womanist Musings
Roeder Admits to Killing Dr. Tiller, Says [...]
After the assassination of Dr. Tiller I wanted to interview someone who had lived in Kansas for awhile, someone with a keen understanding of politics and a history of progressive compassion. After thinking about all the great people I know in the state, I decided the perfect person would be Dr. Meredith Moore, who, until [...]
“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”
-Hannah Arendt
The banality of evil. When Hannah Arendt wrote of Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem she painted him as entirely average, not [...]
While rightist (pro-life) publications continue to denounce the actions of Scott Roeder (Tiller’s charged murderer) leftist (pro-choice) publications continue to develop and frame an argument more akin to a nationalist, heteropatriarchal agenda that appears supportive of violence, heterosexism, racism, and a general tightening on reproductive freedom.
My first official post is coming tomorrow, but I just saw this on the news…
George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into church services.
Tiller was providing services that help women maintain control of their bodies (in particular [...]
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