No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs. - Barack Obama
oh, BO. You understand me.
Boom.
Have I mentioned I love my president?
A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college.
Study: African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Harsher Punishment And Lower Grades In School | News One (via omchomsky)
But racism don’t exist tho….
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horrifying. not surprising, but horrifying.
From an email from NARAL:
The new policy that will cover women’s birth-control coverage is under attack from all sides.
Anti-choice groups have collected more than 20,000 signatures on a petition calling on the White House to rescind the policy.
The Obama administration is standing strong, but we need to make sure they hear from us.
Sign our petition to support no-cost birth control today!
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The attack on women’s access to no-cost birth control just went up a very big notch.
Anti-choice groups are fast collecting signatures on a petition on the White House website calling on the administration to rescind its new birth-control coverage policy.
The White House has committed to responding to every petition that collects 25,000 signatures, and our opponents are close to reaching this number.
Help us counter their anti-contraception petition. We started our own petition, expressing support for every woman’s right to get her contraception covered.
Please add your name to our petition on the White House “We The People” website to show that pro-choice support far outnumbers opposition.
Here’s how it works. Please note that you will need to create an account on WhiteHouse.gov.
1. Go to our petition: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/stand-strong-support-new-no-cost-birth-control-policy/HM8jg7Y4
2. Sign in if you already have an account. If you don’t have an account already, click “Create an Account” and fill out your information.
3. Check your email. Look for an email with the subject line “Almost done! Verify your WhiteHouse.gov account.” Click the link in that email to verify your account and sign in. It may takes a few minutes to receive this email.
4. Click “Sign This Petition.”
5. You’ve signed it! You can use the links on the next screen to share the petition with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, or email.
What we’re seeing is a coordinated effort to deny women coverage for basic family-planning services. Last week, the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to discontinue providing grant money for cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood. Now, anti-contraception forces have launched a multi-million dollar campaign to overturn the new no-cost birth control policy.
The good news is that – as you know – pro-choice Americans like you pulled together and convinced Komen to reverse course. You made that victory possible. We must continue to work together and defeat this next attempt to take away women’s birth-control coverage.
Thank you so much for adding your name.
Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
[Obviously not just women use the forms of contraception covered and not just women are being affected by antichoice groups trying to rescind access to important contraception coverage with no copays.]
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services announced today the Obama Administration will not broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the Affordable Care Act. This request, primarily by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, would have denied millions of American women contraceptive coverage, including students, teachers, nurses, social workers, and other staff (and their families) at religiously-connected or associated schools, universities, and hospitals, as well as institutions, such as Catholic Charities.
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, stated, “This is a landmark victory for the health of young women. We applaud this decision for women by Secretary Sebelius and the Obama Administration. Birth control is the number one prescription drug for women ages 18 to 44 years. Right now, the average woman has to pay $50 per month for 30 years for birth control. No wonder many low income women have had to forgo regular use of birth control and half of US pregnancies are unplanned. This decision will help millions of women and their families.”
[Ms.]
This is awesome. As I’ve mentioned here before, contraception is not my #1 reason for taking BC, but rather so that I can have a functioning reproductive system. So it burns me up that the co-pay is so much, as if it’s not as important as other types of prescriptions. This will save me $720/year, which isn’t chump change—and I don’t even have a family to support, so imagine the impact elsewhere. Big ups and big thanks to the Obama administration for this one.
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Excellent news! What a stupid request that was.
do we even need an election in 2012 after seeing this photo? GIVE HIM ALL THE PRESIDENTS
I vote based on the issues.
AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN~~~~
All he really really really wants is zig a zag ahhh.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
[My grandfather] came after having fought in World War I because Mussolini has been in power now for three years and had has figured out that Fascism was something that would crush his spirit and his freedom….And we have two parties that are out talking about how they’re going to solve those problems. One wants to talk about raising taxes on people who have been successful and redistributing money, increasing dependency in this country, promoting more Medicaid and food stamps and all sorts of social welfare programs and passing Obamacare to provide even more government subsidies. More and more dependency, more and more government — exactly what my grandfather left in 1925.
Yes, fascism is universal health care. That’s what I remember the most about Mussolini.
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Especially because Mussolini didn’t introduce universal health care at all. Lets think about what he did do. He drastically lowered taxes on banking on industry, abolished the tax on luxuries, halved the tax paid by company directors and abolished inheritance tax. He privatized life insurance. He privatized the telephone network. (both of these were previously state owned) He made religious education compulsory in schools. He abolished trade unions. He promised to restore national pride and enforce strict law and order. He banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion.
So yeah, this is what Santorum’s dad was running from - tax breaks for the rich, more power to corporations, religious education, union bashing, nationalism, harsh policing and ‘family values’. Sound familiar?
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Republicans are fascists. YEAH I SAID IT.
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It’s not too much to ask men and boys to “look, but don’t touch.” A young woman who wants to be noticed, even desired, without being assaulted isn’t making an unreasonable request. She’s not defying the facts of biology. She’s asking to be watched, appreciated, and left unharmed. Saying that she’s asking to be raped is like saying that a talented actor who portrays an unsympathetic villain particularly well on screen is asking to be attacked by an outraged member of the movie-going public. There’s a difference between a performance and an invitation, and it’s not that hard—really, it’s not—to distinguish the two.
Nancy Pelosi has always gotten it, she has always had the Republicans’ number and that’s why they hate her so much.
-Joe
Joe Paterno’s right to his dignity is not more valuable than the right of children not to be assaulted by adults. Joe Paterno’s right to employment if he can’t perform up to standards is not more important than the right of Penn State to run a safe campus. If Joe Paterno’s highest priority is truly providing quality education, his loyalty to those values should have been higher than his loyalty to a man whose conduct represents a hideous rot in those values. You only stand for what you say you represent if you stand for it when it’s hard. I cannot possibly imagine a cause so mighty and righteous that it outweighs shrugging aside child abuse and child assault. Certainly not football.
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[image: protest sign that says “warning: do not confuse the complexity of this movement with chaos”].
True democracy has as many aims as it does participants.
I was at dinner this weekend with some new acquaintances, and one of them said, “The Occupy protesters just don’t have a clear message! What are they angry about?” I was like “EXCUSE ME. They have SO much to be angry about — Bush tax cuts, unemployment, abortion restriction, corporate greed, underemployment, student loans — that’s it’s hard to boil it all down to one pithy message. That doesn’t mean they don’t have any right to be angry.”
-Jess
I think that the so-called Palestinian people have this urge for unilateral recognition because they see this president as weak.
“So-called”? Really.
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If you haven’t been noticing I’ve been tagging almost all of my Herman Cain posts with “#Herman Cain #doesn’t know shit about X”
Today I get to tag #Herman Cain #doesn’t know shit about Palestine .
-Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
Well, that’s one of the stupidest sentences I’ve read in awhile.
antique-romantic
