In 2008, one of the questions people in our state had to vote on was Amendment 48, which would have changed our Colorado state Constitution to define life as beginning “at the moment of conception”. Fortunately, it lost. Lost big, too – it was rejected by 73% of voters, more or less from the entire [...]
There are at least two states that have chosen to actively wage war against women and girls. I don’t say that lightly; when one chooses to make humiliation and hardship a part of what is a legal medical procedure in our country, and that procedure is specifically for women, it’s hard to ignore. We’ve all [...]
This is old news, but I’m still a little bit pissed off about it anyway. By “a little bit pissed off”, I mean calmed down from the apoplectic rabid crazy ranting that I was doing when I first heard about this story. The Super Bowl is a huge, huge extravagnaza, designed to attract football fans [...]
This is the story of someone who doctors like the late Dr. George Tiller help every day. They’re not selfish. They’re not “inconvenienced” by a child. They’re women who have had to make a horrific decision because it was the right one for everybody involved. Suck on that, haters. From Feministe.
Dr. Warren Hern is a Colorado doctor who performs late-term abortions when the life of the mother is in jeopardy. He’s been a target of “pro-life” terrorists for quite some time now. Thank goodness he’s finally got some appropriate security. At least he got it before it was too late. “Every doctor that does abortions [...]