I'm so embarrassed by our recent bill. What the hell??? That's all I can think to say :'(

I know, right?!? I wish Cecile Richards would run for Governor and be just as awesome as her mom and former TX Governor Ann Richards (Cecile is with Planned Parenthood now).

To me this issue dives deeper than what is on the surface, which is reproductive rights. What it really boils down to is a lack of ownerships of your body, which is the only thing we can do with as we please (allegedly). Having babies, having abortions, having sex, taking drugs, whatever. It's supposed to be your choice. As soon as the government convinces us that we are not the stewards of our own bodies then we've given the last bastion of freedom left in this corrupt shithole we call government.

They're supposed to be our servants, not our lords! PEACEFUL REVOLUTION!

^WORD!

And we need our boys to help vote them out of office!

It's an excellent blog.

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Amen to Glenn! So glad to see a man talking straight to his fellow men.

These bills have been proposed all over the place in Florida, Virgina, Arizona, etc. It is war and no mistake but it is part of a bigger war, in my opinion.

If you step back and look, there is a big push on to destroy the middle class by several means. Attacks on minimum wage, child labor laws, Planned Parenthood, women's ability to get birth control at all, let alone abortions. There has also been a full frontal attack on unions and public pensions, the ability to vote, public aid in every form and unemployment insurance as well as higher education fees and tuition skyrocketing.

All of this says to me that the movers and the shakers want a desperate workforce, burdened with lots of children, frantic to feed them who will take any job, at any wage, under any conditions, just to be able to try and take care of business. This leaves those movers and shakers to do what they want regarding a lot of areas they want to exploit such as promoting GMO, doing nothing to correct environmental problems we already have and going on to cause even more.

I know, I know, I sound like a conspiracy nut, but you know what? In the '60's, when people actually had the means to attain the "American Dream" and more and more people owned houses and kids went to school, the fact that a large segment of the population had the leisure, the money and the nerve to tell their "betters" what to do was like wormwood to them. I think they have been looking for ways to address that since then.

Take it for what it is worth but the only thing that gives me hope is that they may be overreaching themselves and people are getting royally pissed.

Look at the Komen Foundation. They came up with some convoluted scheme to stop giving Planned Parenthood money and in the raging aftermath, they lost a lot of funding and are floundering completely. This was a big organization and now top people are leaving and Nancy Brinker, the head and Susan G.'s sister, is said to be in a complete meltdown as the organization shreds around her.

Ditto with Rush Limbaugh.

I can only hope this translates fully into action against those who are promoting the current bills against women as well as the rest of us ordinary people.

As it so happens, today I discussed this issue with a co-worker. We are both utterly flabbergasted that that denying birth control coverage is actually being considered in this day and age. The upshot is that there has been a steady erosion of reproductive rights, with much of the action happening at the state level.

Both my darling Stephen Colbert and John Stewart eloquently responded to Rush Limbaugh et al's recent tirade launched in response to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke's testimony in favor birth control coverage.

You're welcome.

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