things you never, ever want to think
I swear to god, if I owned a gun I'd use it to shoot that fucking cockroach.
Note: real, not metaphorical, cockroach
Note: real, not metaphorical, cockroach
2008-07-16
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contraception is not abortion
It is hard to know what to say about the latest misogynistic insanity from the Department of Health and Human Services.
I could tell you I've had an abortion or been on the pill and talk about what it means to live and die a child in the eyes of the law, even if we can vote and own property in these oh so progressive days.
Instead I'm going to leave it at this:
While good science isn't always great policy, bad science is NEVER good policy, adequate policy or acceptable policy.
Policy and law changes that erroneously classify common birth control methods as abortion reduce women to chattel, will increase rates of unwanted pregnancy and will, in particular, put the health of poor women at risk. Additionally, these changes provide no mode for women to certify that they are not pregnant, effectively baring us from getting complete medical care that we direct and meets our own, personal ethical standards.
This is what it feels like to be a woman: I am always the future and yet never exist.
Details from others:
http://melebeth.livejournal.com/1091553.html (locked, trying to see if she'll change that)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/washington/15rule.html
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/07/15/hhs-moves-define-contraception-abortion
http://raaven.livejournal.com/550309.html
I could tell you I've had an abortion or been on the pill and talk about what it means to live and die a child in the eyes of the law, even if we can vote and own property in these oh so progressive days.
Instead I'm going to leave it at this:
While good science isn't always great policy, bad science is NEVER good policy, adequate policy or acceptable policy.
Policy and law changes that erroneously classify common birth control methods as abortion reduce women to chattel, will increase rates of unwanted pregnancy and will, in particular, put the health of poor women at risk. Additionally, these changes provide no mode for women to certify that they are not pregnant, effectively baring us from getting complete medical care that we direct and meets our own, personal ethical standards.
This is what it feels like to be a woman: I am always the future and yet never exist.
Details from others:
http://melebeth.livejournal.com/1091553.html (locked, trying to see if she'll change that)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/washington/15rule.html
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/07/15/hhs-moves-define-contraception-abortion
http://raaven.livejournal.com/550309.html
sundries
- Work clusterfuck continues albeit at an increased level of complexity. I don't even want to go into it right now.
- The massive roach (like, the size of my fist, although in all fairness, I do have very small hands) finished dying and was ejected from the apartment this morning.
- I will catch up with all Live Long and Marry auction stuff tonight. There's just been lots of other craziness taking primacy.
- Stick arrived.
- I don't know. I don't even know what I don't know about. I just know I don't know.
- Hey, I'll write like eight disability issues articles tonight. Yeah.
- The massive roach (like, the size of my fist, although in all fairness, I do have very small hands) finished dying and was ejected from the apartment this morning.
- I will catch up with all Live Long and Marry auction stuff tonight. There's just been lots of other craziness taking primacy.
- Stick arrived.
- I don't know. I don't even know what I don't know about. I just know I don't know.
- Hey, I'll write like eight disability issues articles tonight. Yeah.
Entry tags:
Writer's Block: Becoming a TV Character
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LJ, you did not seriously just ask me that.
LJ, you did not seriously just ask me that.