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If you thought it was bad enough to have violently anti-choice men in the legislature and on the bench, imagine a world where they are the sheriffs as well. That’s this man’s dream, and among his beliefs is that as sheriff the Constitution would bestow him with special authority to arrest doctors for performing legal abortions and, if necessary, use deadly force in those arrests. And if prosecutors don’t prosecute doctors for, well, doing their jobs by performing legal abortions, the answer is simple. Charge the prosecutors AND the doctors via a citizens grand jury. Umm that is not a man we want armed and with the force of the law behind him.
The Republican party adopts a no abortion, no exceptions plank to its platform but for some reason people expect Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race for extrapolating on what that policy looks like in practice. It makes no sense. Of course he’s not dropping out.
Given that the GOP has decided to go public with all its crazy, maybe it’s part of some larger plan. That could explain the hurricane that seems headed straight for the Republican National Convention Next week.
With the RNC around the corner, now is probably a good time to ask yourself if you’re still a member of the middle class.
Could America’s parents be the reason our schools seem to struggle?
It’s not your imagination, Islamaphobia is up in the US.
There’s a new study that suggests pro-ana sites have some redeeming qualities. Hmmm….
The march against science isn’t reserved for places like Mississippi and Texas. It’s happening in California too where one town’s sex education curriculum includes advising students to get plenty of rest if they contract an STD.
More reasons to love FLOTUS. Michelle Obama hosts the first ever kids’ state lunch. How long till Fox News runs some “socialist spinach” next time the issue of re-vamping school lunches comes up?
Tired of all this rape-talk from Republicans? Me too. This piece helps.
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You can thank the Catholic Church.
Personally, I wish there were never need for another abortion, but it is a woman's right to chose without…
Not that I think it should be anyone's decision but the woman's, but if the child can't possibly be saved…
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+ add your ownRomney is a nit-wit. A conservative puppet. So he decides to put some brains into the matter with a guy whose religion is financial greed. Paul Ryan is smart, but he might be evil.
There is no room for a rogue sheriff that would openly state he would use deadly force to stop a legal abortion. To put the laws of his state aside to enforce his own will result in his termination by ANY means required, alive or dead! And the law that he is supposed to represent will not and can not protect him.
JA Carlton posted this comment to Chillin's flawed assertions.
Chillin D - first of all, there is no god.
Second, women don't need to use brute strength we have brains that exist strictly above the waistline that allow us not just to create tools, not just to hunt, but to gather as well, meaning we'll be around a looooohhht longer than men.
Thirdly, women are designed to create, while it is the nature of man to destroy that which he does not understand or cannot control. Men cannot create, nurture or bring forth life, and men cannot control the applied will of any woman.
So, go spread your misogyny and your supposed male supremacy somewhere it's appreciated, like to the wrong wing rethuglicans, 'cause frankly, you couldn't endure what a woman must, you're just not made of the right stuff.
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Lee H. , a bit over the top I think. You'd almost think you joined the Teaparty considering the things you'd forbid people to think and do. Not that I do not understand your reaction, but you're as anti-constitutional as they are. Forgive a Dutchman for this harsh judgement, please?
Conservatives like to call liberals "Marxists" whenever we disagree with them. I wish to propose how liberals would behave if they were truly the opposite of conservatives:
First, the world is over populated. We would limit you to two children and (if necessary) force you to have an abortion if you were so profligate as to become pregnant a third time. We would condemn your lack of patriotism for trying to reduce income taxes. We would forbid religious exceptions for anything. We would forbid the open practice of religion. We would forbid home schooling. We would forbid men to hold property in their own right if they were married. We would tax "stay at home moms" at the same rate as if they were fully employed. If it is the same as outside employment, it should be taxed the same. Air pollution is a serious health and environmental problem, so we would forbid SUVs, minivans, and other gas guzzlers. We would forbid ownership of guns. We would mandate comprehensive sex education in school without parental permission. We would distribute free condoms during school lunch. We would open the prisons and release everyone who is there for a non-violent, victimless crime. We would replace arresting drug users with providing free drug treatment. We would end the War on Drug(users). (Talk about reducing the deficit!) We would fully fund health care, education, Head Start, Public Radio, Planned Parenthood, mental health care, and social services. The Pentagon could hold bake sales to
Thanks chillin for your demonstration of how to lose any credibility whatsoever by posting a sexist misogynistic message. I note like most really demeaning folks who sign on to Care2 you haven't much of a profile, have signed on recently and continue to maintain a birthday of Jan 01.
The world would be a better place without webmasters with low credibility.
to whom it may concern regarding "the war on women":
as the webmaster of www.ladiessavetheday.com, i am hearing everyone talking about "the war on women" and i ask myself what women could be complaining about. are they mad at God for designing females to lay an egg if a man hasn't had his way with them sexually? are they mad at God for designing femininity to be used as a tool by men? are they mad that their milk jugs are a tool to be used by babies?
are they complaining about being regarded as and known as members of the lesser gender? i would assume so, with all of this "a woman can do anything a man can do" nonsense. they obviously cannot accept that they are of the lesser gender, being that "Strongwoman" is the new buzz-word (while men have been reduced to being known as "guys," even as the Strongwoman isn't half as strong as a man who can pick her up and throw her before he pulls a george huguely and kills her without help from a weapon other than his own masculine ability).
the truth is that Strongwoman doesn't have a body built for strength, she doesn't have testosterone to give her strength. case-in-point: for a sense of gender-equality, she relies on gender-based sports teams and gender-based military requirements because she can only triumph alongside of men (and never over men). she is meant to be picked on because the Strongwoman is largely disabled.
a woman is as defined by her womb as the word "woman" is a product of "womb" and "man". c
I still remember a Barney Miller show where a woman threw the toilet seat out of her apartment window to get peoples attention. She had been locked in the bathroom by her husband because she wasn't going to vote the party ticket he insisted she agree to do. While there are fewer relationships like that perhaps today, I suspect there are more than we imagine. Also, imagine the bullying type of male husband whose word goes and all he talks about is how important this election is the country. All the news they listen to is echo chamber. Many women may not be getting the full story and are relying on others to inform them.
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We're as close as we've ever been and it's disgusting and outright vile that there are people running to lead this country that have no intent to listen to or help the MAJORITY of Americans, their ONLY intent being to finish what Bush/Cheney started and bring us to oligarcy and a totalitarian regime for THEIR "chosen few."
I'm 60 years old and this IS the most important and terrifying election I have ever seen. If the Republicans somehow lie and cheat their way to the White House the middle class and poor are a quickly endangered specie but I do ponder who in the hell is going to support the filthy rich bastards when the rest of us go down the damn drain and stop buying product. I do and will continue to REFUSE to be shoved into complete poverty by the greedy and insanely power driven minority on the Right. As I've said before VOTE like your life depends on it because it literally does in this election. Vote and help your neighbors if they need it to get registered and get to the polls. The sane and common sense anti Romney/Ryan folks need to get to the polls come hell or high water, re-elect this President AND put the sensible, reality based, intelligent people in Congress that will help this country recover instead of kissing the rabid minority butt and running off the cliff like the dumb down sheep the Right has created in their base. We've got to get campaign finance reform done, change the stupidity of the filibuster and super majority BS to protect what's left of democracy or this time in history will go down as the end of America and the Freedoms it was built on. We're as close as we've ever been and it's disgusting and outright vile that there are people running to lead this country that have no intent to listen to or help the MAJORITY of Americans, their ONLY intent being to finish wha
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