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Comedian Sarah Silverman Asks Men to Stand for Women's Reproductive Rights	[12 Dec 2012|11:00am]
[ **mood** | pleased ] "I'm not sayin I'm looking for a hero. I'm not sayin I'm looking to be saved, but does a fight have to be 'yours' for you to take it on?""This is a message to my bros."Bros! C'mon I love you bros. But some of you policy-makin bros are passing all sorts of obnoxious laws and saying all sorts of nasty things about us ladies. And the bros who haven't managed to get themselves elected aren't really doing much about it at all, I mean they're just kinda SITTING there."I'm not sayin I'm looking for a hero. I'm not sayin I'm looking to be saved, but does a fight have to be 'yours' for you to take it on? I mean, lemme tell ya something bro: If anybody messed with you, bro, I'd be all over it. I got some bros that don't even have the same rights as me because they love other bros. And I'm all over that shit."Listen up, bro: if you love your mother, and your sister, and if you ever want to see a vagina EVER again, I got a couple rules for you, OK?"RULE #1: The way to a woman's heart is never through a mandatory vaginal ultrasound."RULE #2: A little love for contraceptive equality never hurt anybody. There seems to be NO movement to ban condoms. Lemme tell ya something: billions of potential Americans die every day in your gym sock. But NO ONE's gonna legislate that."RULE #3: If you don't understand how our ladyparts work, you don't get to make any laws about them. I can't put my finger on it it, but it just feels wrong. I guess because all these people saying they want Big Government out their backyards are trying to legislate my pussay."RULE #4: If you stand up for reproductive rights today, there's a better chance that we'll still be around tomorrow. To blow you."
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"Legitimate Rape" according to US Senate candidate Rep.Todd Akin	[20 Aug 2012|07:31am]
[ **mood** | angry ] THE STATEMENT, Sunday 19 August 2012"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. **"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."**Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim."Let's assume that maybe that didn't work, or something," Akin said. "I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."source: Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of 'Legitimate Rape' Don't Get PregnantTHE FACTS32,101 pregnancies per year in the United States result from rape.source: Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of womenTHE SPIN@davecatenese: So maybe. Just maybe, @ToddAkin didn't really mean 'legitimate.' Perhaps he meant if 'someone IS really raped' or 'a rape really occurs'source: Politico Reporter Defends AkinTHE BACKLASHTwitter, Facebook & other social media were abuzz with people's irate denouncements of Akin's statement.source: The Danger of Laughing At Todd AkinTHE DAMAGE"Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin's statement," the Romney campaign said in statement. "A Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape."source: Romney rebukes Akin rape remarkTHE REGRET@toddakin: "To be clear, all of us understand that rape can result in pregnancy & I have great empathy for all victims. I regret misspeaking."- ToddTHE FAUX-POLOGYUPDATE Tuesday 21 August 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57E3S8RO7A"Rape is an evil act. I used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that I apologize," Mr. Akin said in the spot."The fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy. The truth is, rape has many victims. The mistake I made was in the words I said, not in the heart I hold. I ask for your forgiveness," he added. Mr. Akin, noting that he is the father of two daughters, also said he wanted "tough justice" for rapists and expressed compassion for victims.source: Akin releases new ad apologizing for ‘legitimate rape’ commentsTHE DENOUNCEMENT OF WILLFUL IGNORANCE USED TO PROMOTE A POLITICAL AGENDA*crickets chirping* (Because retracting WORDS is much easier than reversing a life-long misogynistic attitude.)
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Nebraska Mom Denied Induced Labor Even as Uterus Crushed Fetus	[03 Apr 2012|11:59pm]
[ mood** | sad ] Danielle Deaver Denied Abortion Even as Uterus Crushed FetusBy SUSAN DONALDSON JAMESMarch 14, 2010Danielle Deaver was 22 weeks pregnant when her water broke and doctors gave her a devastating prognosis: With undeveloped lungs, the baby likely would never survive outside the womb, and because all the amniotic fluid had drained, the tiny growing fetus slowly would be crushed by the uterus walls."What we learned from the perinatologist was that because there was no cushion, she couldn't move her arms and legs because of contractures," said Deaver, a 34-year-old nurse from Grand Isle, Neb. "And her face and head would be deformed because the uterus pushed down so hard."After having had three miscarriages, Deaver and her husband, Robb Deaver, looked for every medical way possible to save the baby. Deaver's prior pregnancy ended the same way at 15 weeks, and doctors induced her to spare the pain.But this time, when the couple sought the same procedure, doctors could not legally help them.Just one month earlier, Nebraska had enacted the nation's first fetal pain legislation, banning abortions after 20 weeks gestation. So the Deavers had to wait more than a week to deliver baby Elizabeth, who died after just 15 minutes."They could do nothing to make it better but tell us to wait, which made it worse," Danielle Deaver said. "Every time I felt movement, I was terrified she was hurting and trying to push the uterus away from her."( Read more...Collapse )**SOURCE: ABC News
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Virginia House getting all up in your vagina	[15 Feb 2012|05:31pm]
[ **mood** | irate ] WED 15 FEB 2012Virginia House getting all up in your vaginaby Scott Wooledge for Milk Men And Womenvia Daily KosThe headline is not hyperbole. The freedom and liberty loving party is requiring the state to take liberty with Virginia women's vaginas. Women will not have the freedom to refuse.The Virginia House passed a bill 63-36 requiring that women who wish to have an abortion must submit to a "transvaginal ultrasound."The ultrasound legislation would constitute an unprecedented government mandate to insert vaginal ultrasonic probes into women as part of a state-ordered effort to dissuade them from terminating pregnancies, legislative opponents noted."We're talking about inside a woman's body," Del. Charnielle Herring, a Democrat, said in an emotional floor speech. "This is the first time, if we pass this bill, that we will be dictating a medical procedure to a physician."The conservative Family Foundation hailed the ultrasound measure as an "update" to the state's existing informed consent laws "with the most advanced medical technology available."This is totally medically unnecessary invasive procedure. It serves no purpose other than to humiliate and shame women and intimidate them from choosing a legal medical procedure.Speaking in support of the bill, one delegate said:"We hear the same song over there. The very tragic human notes that are often touched upon involve extreme examples," said [Todd] Gilbert, R-Shenandoah. "But in the vast majority of these cases, these are matters of lifestyle convenience."It is expected to pass the Republican-controlled Senate. Gov. Bob McDonnell has said he will sign the bill.The House also passed a "personhood" amendment that declares life begins at conception, by a 66-32 vote.
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