March 2012
70 posts
"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to...
February 2012
56 posts
How the South Carolina “dead voters” hoax... →
Last month, officials in South Carolina, facing resistance from the Department of Justice to their new voter ID law, concocted a ghoulish tale of dead voters taking over the state’s elections. As was suspected from the beginning, the fevered stories of “zombie voters” turned out to be fantasy.
This week, state elections officials reviewed 207 of the supposed 950 cases of dead people voting, and...
Raw Data: How Registration Affects Comments
motherjones:
A few weeks ago Mother Jones started requiring registration with email verification for commenters. So how has that worked out? Here are the basic stats from our tech wizards:
22% decrease in total comments
22% increase in Twitter logins
257% increase in Facebook logins
45% decrease in comments our moderators decided to delete
And anecdotally, the comments seem much more...
Today was one of those days...
It was a lazy day. I don’t really like the new Bio professor even though most other students have really taken on to his personality and teaching style. My feminist theory class is still really dry and it feels like I am just learning a whole bunch of names without really divulging into the topics the theorists are trying to address. I had a wonderful therapy session with my roommate, who I...
Texas Kicks Planned Parenthood from Medicare →
tehblackbirdisincognito:
namelessgenxer:
So how many more women will die because you EVIL FUCKING CHRISTIANS have impinged on the 1st Amendment Rights of your fellow Americans to the point of denying healthcare to the neediest in the name of Jesus Christ?
Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally...
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
Sometimes, it so great to be home and forget about the troubles of the world, especially after a particularly difficult week.
STFU, Conservatives: If You're Not Upset, You're... →
saathi1013:
iamateenagefeminist:
Today in Washington DC the GOP held a Congressional oversight hearing about the new birth control mandate.
Not one woman was on the panel for the hearing.
Let me repeat.
In a hearing about birth control, an issue that affects largely women, not…
Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the sentences given to...
Reblog this if you'd care if I committed suicide...
It's late so....
this post may not entirely make sense.
It is funny has so many years can pass but the faint memories you have of someone can remain entirely intact. Sometimes, I am not sure whether some of the “memories” are just thoughts my mind has created to deceive myself. Maybe it is to comfort myself by believing that although a person may not be with us forever, their actions live on through...
“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
…anti-poverty, anti-war, pro-Black and Brown unity agenda (re: “beyond vietnam”)
Now this is truth.
(via somepolitics)
“According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the...”
– Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
(via meganwest)
“There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
Also: “For all of our rhetoric about respecting mothers and parenthood, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave, putting...
“Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago…60...”
– Rick Santorum, reminiscing about the days when thousands of women died each year in the US from unsafe abortions
Because if we aren’t popping out a baby at least every other year, we might as well die. Right, ladies?
(via greaterthanlapsed)
ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from...
mevalee:
justjaane:
whenitraeens:
wow, what are we coming to?
omgwut
That’s crazy.
