Blog For Choice: “Trust Women”

For Those Exulting in the Death of Another

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.

Sometimes there are no words

Then again, I can think of a few words to use about this story: a 9-year-old rape victim was harassed by the Brazilian Roman Catholic Church over aborting the twins she was carrying. She eventually found a doctor brave enough to give her the abortion, but not without a lot of fuss and bother. Here’s [...]

Obama to review, revoke Bush’s executive orders

The news about Obama’s future presidency just keeps getting better. As Mr. Obama prepared to make his first post-election visit to the White House on Monday, his advisers were compiling a list of policies that could be reversed by the executive powers of the new president. The assessment is under way, aides said, but a [...]

And the winner is…

…all of us. Last night, the US elected Senator Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Despite what feels like a wicked cold kicking my arse, I stayed up to hear both his acceptance speech and McCain’s concession speech. Rather than stooping to certain people’s levels, let me just say the contrast [...]