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Good Morning, Readers. I totally bloglifted this from my friend Suzanna over that The Campaign for the Unshaved Snatch. To find her witty blog, either visit http://cussandotherrants.com or click here. Thanks, Suzanne, for letting me swipe your entire post. It's brilliant and I'm lazy.
So the Bush administration really did it. Yesterday, they re-wrote Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidelines to allow people to impose their personal definitions of abortion on women seeking health care services. It's a convoluted regulatory change that basically cuts off funding to family planning clinics that tend to serve low income women. (More information at NARAL and National Partnership for Women & Families.) You know, the same population who the Bush administration also denies health care coverage for their children. The same people who are always being told to take responsibility for their lives. Also? If you are raped? You don't have the right to get emergency contraception if you want it. Have a nice life.
We have 30 days to register our thoughts on this. Planned Parenthood is asking for donations specifically to fight this insanity. You can also sign petitions at NARAL (use the link above) and MoveOn, but of course, the Bush administration will just ignore them. (Still, it doesn't hurt to go on the record as a defender of your rights.)
If people wonder why I am bummed that our move to London was canceled even though it would have meant living apart from Husband for a part of the year so I could finish my MFA, you are now reminded why. Oh, yeah, and according to a report by the New York Times, the Bush administration is also "preparing to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans — without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime," so you know damn well that anyone who works for reproductive justice is going to be spied on. I can't wait to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to read the nice fat file they'll put together on me. Maybe you want to rethink signing that petition...
No Birth Control For You, It's Against My Religion
Posted by Shonda Little Labels: birth control, campaign for the unshaved snatch, civil liberities, department of health and human services, george bush, suzanne reisman
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the Bush administration is also "preparing to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans — without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime,"
--- I hadn't heard about this. I figure they have been doing it already.
I know, it is odd to think we have even one civil liberty left.
Speak and be heard. NEO SLAVERY IS HERE! check to check, just enough to survive. I don't think it ended in 1865!
America...I love it, but we are a strange breed of people; always trying to impose our will on others....It gets kind of frustrating.
MFA, huh? Cool. I only have my BFA, but I think off and on about going back....I just don't have the money to spend.
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