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September 15, 2011
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"Why Should You Care? How defunding Planned Parenthood could affect you: * If you don’t have insurance, you may have to pay for a doctor’s visit to receive a prescription for birth control and pay full price at the pharmacy for it. * Be careful! Without easily available screenings, counseling and treatment, the transmission of STDs and HIV may rise. * Your daughter, niece, or younger cousin (and her boyfriend) may lose a free place to receive counseling, birth control, and testing. * If you are low income and/or without insurance, you may have to pay the full price of STD screenings, which can cost $85 to $220 for each type. That doesn’t include the cost of the doctor’s visit, which can be another $200. * You will have to visit a private practice for prenatal health care and, if you don’t have insurance, pay full price. * Depending on the location, you may lose access to free or reduced cost general services like anemia testing, cholesterol screening, diabetes screening, physical exams, flu vaccines, help with quitting smoking, high blood pressure screening, tetanus vaccines, and thyroid screening. * If you are an OB/GYN, your number of patients may increase."
February 28, 2011
February 22, 2011
"[Y]ou have to love how Santorum is out there mewling about being the victim here and about civility—this from the man who compared people in stable, loving same-sex relationships to dog fuckers and kiddie rapists, this from a man who would make gay and straight sodomy illegal, ban gay marriage and any other protections for same-sex couples, and prevent loving same-sex couples from adopting children who need homes. This from a man who would literally destroy my family if it were within in his power to do so. And the “Savage Love” gang? All we did was make a dirty joke at his expense. There has been no effort to strip Rick Santorum of his civil rights, no moves to nullify his marriage, no one has suggested that his children be taken out of his home, no one is trying to prevent him from having more children. No one has compared Rick Santorum to a dog fucker or a pedophile. Compared to Rick Santorum, my readers and I have been models of decorum and restraint. And don’t think you’re fooling us, Rick. Now that you’re running for president—eight years after we redefined “santorum”—you’re whining to attract a little attention to your campaign and because your advisors think that maybe you’ll get a little traction playing the pansy-assed victim card, à la Sarah Palin, and rake in a few bucks. Oh, look at all that mean gay dude—one of the guys I want to oppress—he’s picking on meeeeeeeeeee!"
February 21, 2011
"In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody’s. The control of women in society was ingeniously effective. It was not done directly by the state. Instead the family was used—-men to control women, women to control children, all to be preoccupied with one another, to turn to one another for help, to blame one another for trouble, to do violence to one another when things weren’t going right. Why could this not be turned around? Could women liberating themselves, children freeing themselves, men and women beginning to understand one another, find the source of their common oppression outside rather than in one another? Perhaps then they could create nuggets of strength in their own relationships, millions of pockets of insurrection. They could revolutionize thought and behavior in exactly that seclusion of family privacy which the system had counted on to do its work of control and indoctrination. And together, instead of at odds—-male, female, parents, children—they could undertake the changing of society itself."
— Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
February 21, 2011
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Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP’s War on Women
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).
"— MoveOn.org Political Action: Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP’s War on Women
February 18, 2011
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Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican of Georgia and a physician, and Rep. Gwen Moore, a Democrat of Wisconsin, had a particularly tense exchange. Broun said, “We treat green turtle eggs better than we treat children in the womb.” He also argued that because most clinics are in ethnic neighborhoods “more black babies are killed” by Planned Parenthood.
Moore spoke next, countering: “I know all about black babies. I’ve had three of them. I had the first one at the ripe old age of 18.” Moore said that Republican public policy has “utter contempt for poor women and poor children.”
"— Rep. Jackie Speier gets personal on abortion - Diane Webber - POLITICO.com
February 18, 2011
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The debate over defunding Planned Parenthood turned personal Thursday night as California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told colleagues of her own abortion experience. Speier spoke out after Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey read at length from a book written by a former abortion provider, now an anti-abortion activist, who described in great detail how a second-trimester abortion looks on an ultrasound.
Speaking next, Speier said that she had to stray from her prepared remarks because “my stomach is in knots. “That procedure that you talked about was a procedure I endured. I lost a baby,” Speier said, revealing that she had an abortion at 17 weeks gestation of a wanted child because of medical complications. “But for you to stand on this floor and to suggest, as you have, that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought is preposterous.”
"— Rep. Jackie Speier gets personal on abortion - Diane Webber - POLITICO.com
February 9, 2011
"A new study is out linking longer working hours for mothers with a one- to two-pound increase in weight for their children, especially in the 11 to 12 age range (or a gain of 1 lb every 5 months beyond the typical expectations for age for every 5.3 months mom is employed)….Note that there a few points to embed in your brain before we move to what the news media have done with this one.
1. The role of fathers’ employment was not investigated here.
2. There already have been studies linking weight and maternal employment. Can we get some studies that look at the role of fathers in mediating these factors, say, fathers who do more of the domestic work? Or even better as a sex-control, mom-mom households? At any rate, this study isn’t exactly “news.”
3. One fifth of the sample of 990 children was overweight. Note that this does not say “obese.” In fact, nowhere in the paper does it say “obese” in reference to the findings. The authors note the “increasing rate of obesity” in general, but nowhere do they describe the children in this cohort as being obese. Remember that as you read what the news reports say.
4. They did not find evidence that “nonstandard” work—nights, evenings, weekends—was associated with greater weight gain in children, and they seem to be rather bothered by this finding. I can see why…and I refer you to (5) below.
5. The authors of the study speculate that the peak weight-gain risk they identified in children of working mothers might be explained as follows:
It is possible that because fifth and sixth graders generally have more independence and less adult supervision over their time use and food choices than third graders, maternal employment precipitates poorer food choices and more sedentary activity. Children’s lesser supervision at older ages may be related to the diminished likelihood of being in an after-school program and a greater likelihood of being in self-care (Johnson, 2005).
The ways in which the link between maternal employment and child health may be moderated by child age warrants more research attention. This speculation is less likely to make sense if you don’t find greater evidence of weight gain among children whose mothers work “non-standard” hours—when children are even more likely to be left unsupervised, especially in single-parent homes."
1. The role of fathers’ employment was not investigated here.
2. There already have been studies linking weight and maternal employment. Can we get some studies that look at the role of fathers in mediating these factors, say, fathers who do more of the domestic work? Or even better as a sex-control, mom-mom households? At any rate, this study isn’t exactly “news.”
3. One fifth of the sample of 990 children was overweight. Note that this does not say “obese.” In fact, nowhere in the paper does it say “obese” in reference to the findings. The authors note the “increasing rate of obesity” in general, but nowhere do they describe the children in this cohort as being obese. Remember that as you read what the news reports say.
4. They did not find evidence that “nonstandard” work—nights, evenings, weekends—was associated with greater weight gain in children, and they seem to be rather bothered by this finding. I can see why…and I refer you to (5) below.
5. The authors of the study speculate that the peak weight-gain risk they identified in children of working mothers might be explained as follows:
It is possible that because fifth and sixth graders generally have more independence and less adult supervision over their time use and food choices than third graders, maternal employment precipitates poorer food choices and more sedentary activity. Children’s lesser supervision at older ages may be related to the diminished likelihood of being in an after-school program and a greater likelihood of being in self-care (Johnson, 2005).
The ways in which the link between maternal employment and child health may be moderated by child age warrants more research attention. This speculation is less likely to make sense if you don’t find greater evidence of weight gain among children whose mothers work “non-standard” hours—when children are even more likely to be left unsupervised, especially in single-parent homes."
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The Biology Files: The “working mom = fat children” study: How the news media say it
SCIENCE!
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