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The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
Do you really not understand that women must have a medical referral to obtain a mammogram?
It seems that with the volumes written on the whole thing within the last week, you might actually know what the uproar is all about.
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The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
You know why? Because sgk was dependent on the volunteerism and donations of pro-choice women . You know why? Two reasons 1. Republican women do not care about other women and pro-choice women do and 2.when push comes to shove, 'pro-life' women are outnumberd 10 to one.We know what Planned Parenthood is and we know what you folks are and, believe me, there is no contest at all.
If 'pro-lifers' want to see sgk thrive y'all had best step up and just this once do the heavy lifting. Our money and efforts will go elsewhere.
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The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
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"The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork To Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals"
Silly old me
I should have known according to rhrealitycheck logic such an article would have absolutely nothing to do with mammograms! Why would I even think about those?
Especially seeing as how no ob/gyn in her right mind would forget to encourage a patient from seeking out a mammogram yearly after thirty five and earlier if breast cancer is in her family history. You mean Planned Parenthood gyn's encourage that too!? What an absolutly unique thing for them to do!! Certainly they are the only doctors to do anything so proactive!
If must cost Planned Parenthood clinics tens of dollars every week to print out lists of facilities where patients can actually obtain mammograms. Without Komen's funds how would they even be able to do that? Hopefully Komen isn't wasting any money on places that actually provide the mammograms themselves. It's telling women to go somewhere else and get a mammogram every year that's the complicated and expensive part. Thanks so much for explaining!
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New Pornography Regulations In LA: Are They Addressing the Right Problem?
The BIGGEST problem with porn is that it is the sexualized degradation and subjugation of women. Further, it has become increasingly violent, degrading, humiliating, and brutal towards women over the last several decades -- even as it has become more mainstream. Things like "ass to mouth" penetration are normalized, the word "woman" is non-existent (replaced with "slut" "whore" "cum-dumpster" and worse), and racist bigotry is sexualized and normalized. It is amazing to me how much -- even among people who are concerned about the status of women -- pornography has become accepted.
What goes on in pornography is really no different than what is being pushed by the anti-abortion movement. BOTH REDUCE WOMEN TO OBJECTS. Either a sex object or a breeder. Whore or the Virgin. We need to rupture with both!
Women are human beings. Full human beings. Being fully human includes the right to be sexual -- but that is different than being stripped of all other attributes (intellectual, political, artistic, and other interests) and reduced to a "sex thing" to be used by others. This is true in the same way that being a parent can be part of being human, but that is different than disregarding a woman's full humanity (again, her intellectual, political, artistic or other interests) and subordinating all of that to her ability to bear children. Both are forms of female enslavement.
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American Catholics Don't Blindly Obey the Bishops
Great Article, Andrea. You are so right about the "media enablers." Fox News has become the media mouthpiece for the American bishops. Priscilla, at News Hounds, has been kicking some serious Fox ass about Fox's totally biased coverage. She asks if Fox News is a "PR" arm for the Catholic Church in this recent article. Betcha those Fox women have gold plated health care coverage which includes contraception.
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Who Decides? Delays and Barriers to Accessing Birth Control at Georgetown University
And for another way of handing the issue:
Pa. Vending Machine Dispenses 'Morning-After' Pill
Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/02/07/us/AP-US-Morning-After-Pill-Machine.html?ref=news
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American Catholics Don't Blindly Obey the Bishops
Oh, it's because lots of 'Liberal' men are sexist too.
If anyone doubts this, publish a diary about a particularly horrendous rape case or on Daily Kos and watch what happens.
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American Catholics Don't Blindly Obey the Bishops
I don’t know for certain why it’s attractive for so many liberal male pundits to create a false choice between winning the Catholic vote and passing common sense regulation to help the millions of American women—including Catholic women—who could benefit from having no co-pay for their contraception.
Oh, it's because lots of 'Liberal' men are sexist too. They may not be as overt or self-aware as most of the Conservative misogynists, as I think more of the 'Liberal' sexists draw their sexism from unexamined privilege and not outright hostility toward women or an intense desire to control all women, but they still don't think of women as real people (on the same level as men) or of issues affecting primarily women as 'real' or 'serious' issues.
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Mammograms, Contraception, and Abortion are Always Political, Even Religious. We Ignore This At Our Peril
Religion and spirituality have served many people in their struggle for liberation and justice.
But never women. This is particularly and increasingly true of those religions which are strictly hierarchical and exclude women from any leadership role.
There is no widespread, organized 'left' wing Christianity especially when it comes to the basic civil rights of women. Jim Wallis (who keeps insisting that he is the rightful spiritual leader of women like me) is just as sexist and anti-choice and jealous of his spiritual 'authority' as anyone in the Catholic hierarchy.
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American Catholics Don't Blindly Obey the Bishops
Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax spent years wringing their hands and trying to be understanding enough and nice enough to Hilter and the Nazis to get them to be good neighbors. It allowed their enemies to really build up their war machine and get their plans polished before they attacked.
Must say, I'm reminded of them both every time I hear the liberal intelligensia whining about how unfriendly it sounds to criticize People of Faith, how it would be more respectful to recognize they're entitled to their own beliefs, and how surely they'll be satisfied by a compromise.
Sorry, but when someone harnesses their enormous wealth to get control of hospitals and medical care, and then states their religious beliefs entitle them to allow my daughter to die on the floor out of respect for a doomed embryo, I don't feel like giving one inch to accomodate them.