2012-03-17

karadinart: (Default)
2012-03-17 10:15 pm

Your Uterus and You

Because even if you aren't female, it's newsworthy!

Women Deluge Pro-Ultrasound Male Lawmaker’s Facebook Page With Detailed Vagina Updates
http://jezebel.com/5893040/smartasses-deluge-pro+ultrasound-male-lawmakers-facebook-page-with-detailed-vagina-updates

On the heels of the federal government's [obligatory] decision to pull its funding from Texas' Medicaid Women's Health Program after Gov. Rick Perry prevented Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving federal monies, the Texas attorney general on Friday filed suit against the Obama administration, challenging withholding $35 million that keeps the Texas women's program afloat.
http://jezebel.com/5894158/texas-sues-the-obama-administration-for-making-it-look-like-a-big-jerk

State senator in Idaho proposed a bill that promises to increase the cost of abortions by routing lower-income women through anti-choice,deceptive crisis pregnancy centers before they can have an abortion.
http://jezebel.com/5893803/idaho-bill-requires-women-to-go-to-awful-crisis-pregnancy-centers-before-getting-abortions

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result.
http://jezebel.com/5893011/law-will-allow-employers-to-fire-women-for-using-whore-pills

Mitt Rommney promises to 'get rid of Planned Parenthood - a complete 180 degree turn from where he said he stood on Planned Parenthood a decade ago. As a candidate for Massachusetts governor ... Not only is it impossible for a President to "get rid of" the independent health care provider, cutting all federal funding to the organization would only result in a 0.01% decrease in the overall federal budget. 2/3 of Planned Parenthood's budget comes from sources other than the federal government, and thanks to the Hyde Amendment, no federal funding finances abortion services; rather, tax money for Planned Parenthood finances preventative care for low income women and men.
http://jezebel.com/5893106/mitt-romney-vows-to-get-rid-of-planned-parenthood-like-its-an-unplanned-pregnancy