Gabby Douglas gets a high-five from First Lady Michelle Obama during her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (x)
love this.
Romney-Ryan 2012: The Go Back Team.
The Affordable Care Act has been upheld, with the individual mandate “reasonably characterised as a tax.” Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for your deciding vote.
Numbers, people. Real numbers, real people.
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights. All the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.
Joe Biden becomes the highest-ranking official to endorse same-sex marriage. (via think-progress)
Joeeee.
How much more do women pay for health care in your state?
If you were wondering why conservatives hate the Affordable Healthcare Act.
“New York State Senator Eric Adams and his colleagues honored Trayvon Martin on Monday by wearing hoodies to the March 26, 2012 Senate legislative session in Albany.”
via Colorlines
Fuck it, I totally do. I’m sick of everyone who voted for him in ‘08 complaining about how “disappointed” they are. Guess what? He’s a real human, not a magician or a unicorn or a marketing campaign about dreams. Did he live up to everything he said on the campaign trail? No. Does any politician? No. Does that make voting for a republican (and seriously, take a LOOK at the republicans) or not voting better? No.
The Not Batshit Crazy One 2012.
The Not Batshit Crazy One 2012.
^^^
yuuuuuuup.
When it comes to women, they don’t get rights. They get restrictions… I have five daughters and eight granddaughters, and the one thing I worry about more than anything else is their health. I like to see their happy faces. I like to see them feeling good… So I want them to have doctors making decisions, not some employer who has a self-righteous moral view that he wants to impose on my daughter, my granddaughter, my wife. Nuh uh. On our side of the aisle, we believe that women are capable of making their own healthcare decisions.
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), is a man who trusts women. Lautenberg made these comments at today’s hearing on the Blunt Amendment. (via menwhotrustwomen)
Swoon.
Virginia Lawmakers Drop Invasive Ultrasound Requirement From Abortion Bill
After an understandable uproar over a mandatory procedure that federal law would consider rape, Virginia legislators have opted to forgo the invasive and most definitely uncomfortable procedure for women seeking abortions. On top of a big invasion of privacy for all women, the legislation could have re-traumatized women who sought abortions because of rapes. A meeting last night led legislators to reconsider the vagina wand provision, reaching a compromise that would make the procedure voluntary, but not mandatory, reports The Washington Post. We’re not sure what woman might choose to have an ultrasound used in this way, but, now they get a choice. And with that, the never-ending reproduction debates continue.
A victory for activists in the latest round of the culture wars.
Hurray! Also: I like that poster. That’s a fully formed human baby, alive and breathing and functioning on its own. YES, that baby deserves all the same rights afforded to human persons. But seeing as abortion doesn’t do anything to already-born babies, it’s kind a non-sequiter on this issue.
-Jess
Yep, all of this.
antique-romantic
