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In a speech today at Wake-Forest University, McCain “vowed to model his Supreme Court appointees after George W. Bush’s” - i.e. radical, right-wing judges who want to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away reproductive rights from America’s women.
McCain also attacked a 2005 Supreme Court decision that “barred capital punishment for murderers who were under […]

This week George Voinovich helped introduce another anti-choice bill in the US Senate aimed at limiting access to abortion services for pregnant women.
The bill is also being sponsored by Sam Brownback and David Vitter- a couple of real nutjobs when it comes to this issue.
Brownback has a long anti-choice history, a 0% rating by NARAL […]

According to the AP, Florida has taken a step forward by formally apologizing “for the state’s ’shameful’ history of slavery”.
Meanwhile, Ohio takes a step backward with Governor Strickland’s signing of HB 314, the anti-choice bill that forces doctors to show ultrasound pictures to patients considering an abortion.

I finally got a chance to watch Juno last night, and I found it quite enjoyable. I think it also quite nicely captures the pro-choice position; despite the fact that Juno decided to carry the pregnancy to term and give the baby up for adoption (it would have been a pretty pointless movie if […]

From the Baltimore Sun:
At National Right to Life’s conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he rattled off his qualifications. To a layman’s ears, it sounded pretty standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He supports teaching only abstinence to […]

When I finally got close to the front of the line at my polling place in 2004, a pollworker told me to cover my T-shirt. It had the words “Vote Explosion” on it.

Seeing as I had nothing to cover it with and had just spent 3 hours in line, I politely pointed out that there was no partisanship expressed by the shirt. Vote Explosion was just a loose group of friends registering folks to vote at rock shows. She replied that they were trying to avoid even the slightest possible implication of impropriety.

OK, fair enough. Polling places are supposed to be inner sanctums of nonpartisanhip. Neither voters nor pollworkers may wear political shirts, stickers, or buttons within a 100 foot radius. Although the words “Vote Explosion” aren’t explicitly partisan, neither are the words “Eagle Forum” or “MoveOn.” I think it was a wise move to err on the side of overzealousness, and simply prohibit T-shirts bearing all of the above.

The guy behind me in line loaned me his sweatshirt, and I was able to step forth to express my partisanship in the privacy of the voting booth. As an ongoing tribute of thanks to sweatshirt guy, ever since that day I’ve stowed an extra large, plain T-shirt in my purse whenever I go to vote - just in case a fellow voter is asked to cover up.

Until I read Monday’s Columbus Dispatch, it had never occurred to me that I might someday want to offer my spare shirt to a pollworker.

State Representative Tom Brinkman introduced another crazy bill today trying to ban all abortions in Ohio.
Here’s the important part of Brinkman’s HB 284:
On and after the effective date of this amendment, all abortions are prohibited in this state
It also makes doctors “liable in compensatory and exemplary damages in a civil action”.
Crazy wingnuts. Will […]

This is INSANE.
Feminism is a minority social movement, whose members murder innocent children in order to obtain sexual gratification.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! I absolutely refuse to link to this trash; but I will provide a link to Feministing’s excellent rebuttal. Of course, this asshat’s (aka “Mike Adams”) most offensive comment might not have been […]

We’ve been saying as much here at Plunderbund for quite some time: the pro-life movement is little more than a tool to subjugate women. And if you don’t believe us, why not believe it when it comes from the horse’s mouth? From Lawyers, Guns, and Money:
Marty Lederman points us to an interesting WaPo […]

I guess since Bizzy takes a shot at me (ostensibly for something I didn’t write), and shuts down comments - I’ll comment here. First off, I asked Brian to blog here and I’m not in the habit of trying to police that. I don’t have to agree with him always or with Joe […]

Interesting. The Guiliani Planned Parenthood flap appears to be coming from the McCain camp. First, The Politico reports:
The returns have been on the public record for years, but the detail about Giuliani’s support for Planned Parenthood — along with e-mailed copies of the returns — was provided to The Politico by aides to a […]

The big news a couple days ago (catching my breath from the weekend, yes!) was that Rudy gave money to Planned Parenthood.
[collective right-wing gasp]
This might turn out to be one of those primary/general paradoxes. The state of the takeover by the religious right of the Republican Party almost dictates you take a […]

A real life tale of one couple’s abortion. Presented without commentary, if only to provide balance to wingnuts who claim abortion is just about selfish, spoiled people who can’t be “inconvenienced” by a baby.

It seems the “Godzilla Gang” - the annointed ones who get to tell us what is and what isn’t an “important issue” have weighed in on global warming and the action of the National Association of Evangelicals in talking about the moral implications of taking action on global warming:
Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have […]