So, Republicans are anti-abortion, right? They honor the sanctity of life, right? They don't want anyone in this country to be able to get an abortion, right?

Then explain to me why the RNC's health insurance plan covers abortions.

According to ItHappenedtoAlexa, Bill O'Reilly will be speaking at a luncheon for their foundation. Their foundation is to honour the courage that their daughter showed when encountered with the legal system's ugly handling of rape victims.

Wait, wasn't there something about Bill O'Reilly and a rape victim a while back? Oh, yea. Bill knows why wimmin-folk get raped. They deserve it.

I hope some of you join me in pointing this out to the foundation. Here's their contact page

ETAI totally forgot about his sexual harassment lawsuit. Even better!

I am pretty sure this "nurse's" understanding of how an IUD works is flat out wrong. Oh, and this is also essentially assault, as well.

A clinic nurse first removed her intrauterine birth-control device without permission, says the patient in a federal action, then told her that "having the IUD come out was a good thing," because "I personally do not like IUDs. I feel they are a type of abortion. I don't know how you feel about abortion, but I am against them."

It sounds like this isn't the first time she has done this. I hope they keep her from continued employment as a nurse.

So, the big outrage today is over that idiotic Forbes article the other day about not marrying career women...

CJR mentions a whole big list of people who blogged about the article - but as usual, they neglect to mention that my lovely wife (and career woman!) kellyb brought up the article two days ago.

She also circulated it through a corporate women's board at the company where she works, which generated a huge response from the many married career women there.

I don't have a TypeKey account, so I can't comment on the CJR post. But if any of you are able to log in, kindly point out to them that it was a story that we were talking about well before HuffPost deigned to comment on it.

I'll tell ya, we get no respect.

I have been looking at this, trying to find the "April Fools!" note, but alas there is none. And this dreck is on Forbes, too. Here are the reasons to not marry a "career woman":

1. You are less likely to get married to her.

2. If you do marry, you are more likely to get divorced.

3. She is more likely to cheat on you.

4. You are much less likely to have kids.

5. If you do have kids, your wife is more likely to be unhappy.

6. Your house will be dirtier.

7. You'll be unhappy if she makes more than you.

8. She will be unhappy if she makes more than you.

9. You are more likely to fall ill.

What. The. Bloody. Fuck. um, what year, and what country am I in?

Dr. Martin Gish... though I am loathe to call him a doctor, because of his inability to dispense legal, safe medicines.

A firestorm of controversy has erupted over a young woman who was denied emergency contraception after she said she was raped.

The emergency room doctor in this case said it is against his religious beliefs to give out what has been called the morning after pill, even after a rape. The morning after pill is a high dose of birth control medicine that can prevent pregnancy.

Some state politicians and the mother of the alleged rape victim said they believe refusing to administer the pill should be against the law.

"He wasn't the victim, she was and he made her more of one," said Darlene Bender, the victim's mother.

It's bad enough that schools can't teach about birth control, and pharmacists can refuse to fill legal perscriptions for birth control. Now this guy makes the life of a rape victim all that much worse.

[tag:idiot christian morons] [tag:keep the women in the dark] [tag:birth control]

Smarter than the men in every way...

"A quarter-century after women became the majority on college campuses, men are trailing them in more than just enrollment.

Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women.

And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates.

Small wonder, then, that at elite institutions like Harvard, small liberal arts colleges like Dickinson, huge public universities like the University of Wisconsin and U.C.L.A. and smaller ones like Florida Atlantic University, women are walking off with a disproportionate share of the honors degrees."

[tag:Education] [tag:Women] [tag:Graduate Degrees]

Heh. Looks like Bush is going to get even less UN countries who want to play along with his March To Teheran than he got with Iraq. A heavyweight weighs in...

China made clear on Monday that any reference to possible sanctions or war should be eliminated from a U.N. resolution ordering Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

China's U.N. ambassador, Wang Guangya, spoke before his own foreign minister and those of Russia, Britain, France and Germany were to have dinner in New York with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Iran is the main topic.

Moscow and Beijing want a resolution but oppose invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which is used routinely in dozens of Security Council resolutions for peacekeeping missions and other legally-binding actions.

The United States, France and Britain insist on Chapter 7. It allows for sanctions and even war, but a separate resolution would be required to invoke further steps of that nature.

Britain's U.N. ambassador, Emyr Jones Parry, said if the ministers could agree "that the suspension would be mandatory" then U.N. ambassadors "could sort out the means."

Russia and China, which have veto power in the 15-nation Security Council, fear too much pressure on Iran would be self-defeating or precipitate an oil crisis. Both worry the United States would use a resolution under Chapter 7 to justify military action.

"My position is clear, because Chapter 7 is about enforcement measures," Wang told reporters. "My understanding is that a resolution of the Security Council is itself legally binding, so all the parties have to implement Security Council resolutions."

But he said China, which rarely uses it veto power, was "not thinking about a veto."

I get the feeling we won't be hearing the phrase 'Coalition Of The Willing' again any time soon. [tag:Iran] [tag:United Nations] [tag:Bush] [tag:China]

Via Exit Stage Left !

Cedar River Clinics, a women's health and abortion provider with facilities in Renton, Tacoma, and Yakima, filed a complaint with the Washington State Department of Health this week alleging three instances where pharmacists raising moral objections refused to fill prescriptions for Cedar River clients. The complaint includes one incident at the Swedish Medical Center outpatient pharmacy in Seattle. According to the complaint, someone at the Swedish pharmacy said she was "morally unable" to fill a Cedar River patient's prescription for abortion-related antibiotics.

This movement is going to prove deadly far too soon.

Please steal this graphic.

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