Sarah Silverman reminds us that #EverySpermIsSacred Republican legislators all over the country are obsessed with legislating women’s innards – specifically, reproductive innards. Whether it’s forcing doctors to perform unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound probes (government mandated rape) before legal abortions, the Republican war on contraception, or forcing women to carry a dead fetus to term, the GOP […]
“They’re not pro-life. You know what they are, they’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets. Anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women.” ~George Carlin In 1973 the Supreme Court decided a woman’s right to choose abortion was legal. LEGAL. This means when a person decides to have an abortion: It’s legal. It’s none of […]
Under the right set of circumstances, many evangelicals become full-fledged hypocrites Several years ago, I was friends with a woman who identified as a born-again Christian. Eventually I moved to another part of the state, and while we still keep in touch, our connection is not as close as it used to be. I never expected […]
Because of Ohio’s abortion restrictions, one woman was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago to abort her dying fetus. Sheva Guy, 23, a doctoral student from Cincinnati, Ohio said the fetus she was carrying was diagnosed with a fatal spine abnormality. The diagnosis came after a second-trimester ultrasound at about 22 weeks to determine gender. Guy […]
“So at best the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which forms of life we feel are sacred, and we get to kill the rest.” ~ George Carlin, “Back in Town” (1996) Jeb Bush considers himself to be “the most pro-life governor in modern times,” but his stated […]