07/2006

Please remember this, people: when civil rights get rolled back, they don’t return after a change in administration. It takes a change in generations. It’s our siblings and kids who’ll be dealing with this — enjoy!
The “Child Custody Protection Act” protects whom, exactly?
The Senate, as feared, has passed the so-called Child Custody Protection Act, which [...]

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06/2006

On its way to Blanco’s (a Democrat, by the way) desk, who has professed she will sign it (a Schlafly, by the way).
You can find some decent news coverage of it simply by typing “Louisiana anti-abortion bill” into Google. I had collected a bunch of nice links for you but my computer crashed so you [...]

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05/2006 Part VI

You can live in a certain culture. There can be polls that talk about not knowing where Iraq is, not caring, why should prisoners have rights, who cares if I’m spied on, etc. That is all a cultural mindset, and the cultural mindset is easy to disrupt and change over time.
But when you lose civil [...]

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05/2006 Part V

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/04/28/louisiana/
Last week in committee debate on the issue, Sen. Diana Bajoie, D-New Orleans, opposed allowing abortions to save the life of the mother, saying she wanted to “make [the ban] more pro-life” by not allowing any exceptions.
Bajoie, by the way, AKA Tower of Hair. Some nice thingsshe’s done:
As a state legislator, Bajoie has led the [...]

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05/2006 Part IV

Can’t recall if I posted this one before. Seems like something I would have. This comes from an email Planned Parenthood sent out (note: I highly recommend getting on their mailing list — you wouldn’t believe the stuff CNN “forgets” to report on… heard anything about South Dakota lately? I didn’t think so).
An Indiana mother [...]

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