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Text: DIY Abortions on the Rise Among Low-Income Women

sisterhoodispowerful:

The lack of abortion coverage in health insurance is forcing low-income women to attempt to DIY abortions because they can’t afford a safe procedure.

As Robin Marty writes on RH Reality Check, women are turning to the improper use of the drug misoprostal, while others are resorting to more risky, desperate acts such as throwing themselves down a set of stairs or getting punched in the stomach. In a country in which abortion is a perfectly legal procedure, and one that is very safe when performed properly by a doctor, it’s deeply disturbing that women still have to resort to such dangerous methods. The Hyde Amendment’s ban on government funding for abortion puts women in a position where they cannot access health care for their bodies.

Last month, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg warned that while abortion rights are secure for women with money, even if Roe v. Wade were to be repealed, low-income women’s reproductive rights are not on such solid ground. In fact, it seems clear that poor women are already de facto deprived of their reproductive rights by the lack of abortion coverage in health insurance.

Women will continue to take matters into their own hands if financial constraints keep them from getting an abortion. Three-fourths of women who obtain abortions cite the inability to afford a child as one of their primary reasons; if they cannot pay for the procedure out-of-pocket, that’s not going to stop them from making certain they’re not bringing a life into the world they can’t support. We should never jeopardize women’s health out of ideology.

(via change.org)

from wild child, full of grace
fleetfootedfox 29 Aug Tags 70 Notes
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Photo: casabranka: (via ilovecharts) Pain in the ass process doesn’t begin to describe it—of the circle of first-generation immigrants I personally know, there are people who gave up and went home after 10 years of waiting and getting nothing, people who became illegal immigrants because they slipped through the cracks of this broken system (and these people are not unskilled laborers—this includes people with MBAs, PhDs, etc.), people who were deported out of the blue after having made a comfortable life here, people who couldn’t get in only because the limits were reached for their home country, etc. So much for America being the land of opportunity. Last I heard, Canada deserves that title far more nowadays. This.  The worst thing about Arizona’s law is that any single DHS/USCIS examiner sits in an office, surrounded by legal references, and with multiple coworkers and superiors to ask for help, in order to determine the legality of one person entering the country.  The person entering the country will provide information by the binder-full, that the examiner will review. One police officer on the street is absolutely incapable of determining the legality of one person’s presence in the country, based on whatever single piece of identification they have on them.

casabranka: (via ilovecharts) Pain in the ass process doesn’t begin to describe it—of the circle of first-generation immigrants I personally know, there are people who gave up and went home after 10 years of waiting and getting nothing, people who became illegal immigrants because they slipped through the cracks of this broken system (and these people are not unskilled laborers—this includes people with MBAs, PhDs, etc.), people who were deported out of the blue after having made a comfortable life here, people who couldn’t get in only because the limits were reached for their home country, etc. So much for America being the land of opportunity. Last I heard, Canada deserves that title far more nowadays. This.  The worst thing about Arizona’s law is that any single DHS/USCIS examiner sits in an office, surrounded by legal references, and with multiple coworkers and superiors to ask for help, in order to determine the legality of one person entering the country.  The person entering the country will provide information by the binder-full, that the examiner will review. One police officer on the street is absolutely incapable of determining the legality of one person’s presence in the country, based on whatever single piece of identification they have on them.

casabranka:

(via ilovecharts)

Pain in the ass process doesn’t begin to describe it—of the circle of first-generation immigrants I personally know, there are people who gave up and went home after 10 years of waiting and getting nothing, people who became illegal immigrants because they slipped through the cracks of this broken system (and these people are not unskilled laborers—this includes people with MBAs, PhDs, etc.), people who were deported out of the blue after having made a comfortable life here, people who couldn’t get in only because the limits were reached for their home country, etc.

So much for America being the land of opportunity. Last I heard, Canada deserves that title far more nowadays.

This.  The worst thing about Arizona’s law is that any single DHS/USCIS examiner sits in an office, surrounded by legal references, and with multiple coworkers and superiors to ask for help, in order to determine the legality of one person entering the country.  The person entering the country will provide information by the binder-full, that the examiner will review.

One police officer on the street is absolutely incapable of determining the legality of one person’s presence in the country, based on whatever single piece of identification they have on them.

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fleetfootedfox 25 Aug Tags 45 Notes
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“Over a summer of research, I learned a lot of surprising facts about the history of marriage and weddings, but by far the most shocking discovery of all was that the tradition of marriage-as-we-know-it simply did not exist in those days. Almost everything we have come to associate with marriage and weddings — […] The tossing of the garter, for example, evolved from a 14th Century tradition of ripping the clothing off of the bride’s body as she left the ceremony in order to “loosen her up” for the wedding night. Wedding guests fought over the choicest bits of undergarment, with the garter being the greatest prize.”

This Is What I Think: Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage
fleetfootedfox 12 Aug Tags 4 Notes
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26 years after the PMRC

thrownness: fuckinfilth: dawnowar:

Dee Snider is still married to the same woman and his children have never been arrested for drug offenses.

Al Gore is divorced, facing numerous sexual harassment and assault charges and his son, Al Gore III was arrested for drug possession in 2007.

Maybe the Gores would have been better off if they had listened to more Heavy Metal.

from thrownness
fleetfootedfox 10 Aug Tags 117 Notes
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Photo: ericmortensen: Those conversations between Google and Verizon that both companies swore were not taking place were, of course, taking place. They’ve now jointly declared their desire to eliminate any prospects for net neutrality on wireless broadband.  “Sixth, we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement.” Read the whole statement.  Smoke and mirrors. I’m not really sure how we came to be in the position where 2 companies inking a deal is capable of describing what the FCC does and does not have jurisdiction over.

ericmortensen: Those conversations between Google and Verizon that both companies swore were not taking place were, of course, taking place. They’ve now jointly declared their desire to eliminate any prospects for net neutrality on wireless broadband.  “Sixth, we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement.” Read the whole statement.  Smoke and mirrors. I’m not really sure how we came to be in the position where 2 companies inking a deal is capable of describing what the FCC does and does not have jurisdiction over.

ericmortensen:

Those conversations between Google and Verizon that both companies swore were not taking place were, of course, taking place. They’ve now jointly declared their desire to eliminate any prospects for net neutrality on wireless broadband. 

“Sixth, we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement.”

Read the whole statement.  Smoke and mirrors.

I’m not really sure how we came to be in the position where 2 companies inking a deal is capable of describing what the FCC does and does not have jurisdiction over.

High Resolution Version from worship the glitch
fleetfootedfox 9 Aug Tags 67 Notes
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BREAKING: Schwarzenegger Files Motion To Immediately Resume Gay Marriages

queerwatch:

In an extraordinary court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The Republican governor filed his brief with U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker before a Friday deadline to submit arguments on whether to continue a stay of Walker’s decision against Proposition 8. “The Administration believes the public interest is best served by permitting the Court’s judgment to go into effect, thereby restoring the right of same-sex couples to marry in California,” wrote Kenneth C. Mennemeier, an attorney representing Schwarzenegger, in the brief. “Doing so is consistent with California’s long history of treating all people and their relationships with equal dignity and respect.”

whoa.

kinda makes the whole thing weird, too, since the suit is Perry v. Schwarzenegger?

from Queer Watch
fleetfootedfox 6 Aug Tags 235 Notes
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Photo: abloodymess: nervousacid: It’s funny because it’s true. (via)

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abloodymess:

nervousacid:

It’s funny because it’s true. (via)

from A Bloody Mess
fleetfootedfox 3 weeks ago Tags 57 Notes
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I’m Not Pro-Gay Marriage, I’m Pro-Equality

cubicle17:

Derek Powazek gets it:

I’m not Pro-Gay Marriage, I’m Pro-Equality. I’m not Pro-Gay Rights, I’m Pro-Common Sense. I’m Anti-Discrimination. I’m Anti-Enshrining Your Queasiness About Buttsex In My Constitution. I’m Pro-When The Constitution Says We’re All Equal, It Means We’re All Equal.

from cubicle 17
fleetfootedfox 5 Aug Tags 96 Notes
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Photo: shorterexcerpts: tanya77: We’ve got a problem, guys. Google and Verizon seem close to creating an agreement that would give them a “fast track” to Verizon’s customers. Put on your Evil Hat for a minute and think about what all the other sites and ISP’s can (will) think up now. You like the way your cable TV billing is set up? You want that in your Internet? That’s one way in which they want to control your Intenet life. Here are some examples of how the ISP’s have already overstepped their positions: Verizon blocking Planned Parenthood text messages. ATT muting Eddie Vedder’s anti-Bush comments during a streaming Pearl Jam concert. Comcast blocking legal, uncopyrighted P2P file-sharing. (Which Comcast couldn’t be punished for by the Court of Appeals BECAUSE THERE’S NO LAW AGAINST IT.) Please let the FCC know that they need to fucking DO something. You can: *Call FCC Chairman Genachowski’s (pronounced Jen-a-chow-ski) office in DC at 202 418-1000. *File a formal FCC consumer complaint. *Send a message to your representatives through SaveTheInternet.com. The number I listed gets your right to his office and the links here go right to forms that are very easy to fill out. Please, for the sake of everything you love and need from the Internet, take a minute to make one move to preserve its openness. I think this needs to go deeper than the FCC (the supreme court has ruled that they don’t have jurisdiction).  Much as the FCC is on our side, we need to push for a law, or even an amendment.

shorterexcerpts: tanya77: We’ve got a problem, guys. Google and Verizon seem close to creating an agreement that would give them a “fast track” to Verizon’s customers. Put on your Evil Hat for a minute and think about what all the other sites and ISP’s can (will) think up now. You like the way your cable TV billing is set up? You want that in your Internet? That’s one way in which they want to control your Intenet life. Here are some examples of how the ISP’s have already overstepped their positions: Verizon blocking Planned Parenthood text messages. ATT muting Eddie Vedder’s anti-Bush comments during a streaming Pearl Jam concert. Comcast blocking legal, uncopyrighted P2P file-sharing. (Which Comcast couldn’t be punished for by the Court of Appeals BECAUSE THERE’S NO LAW AGAINST IT.) Please let the FCC know that they need to fucking DO something. You can: *Call FCC Chairman Genachowski’s (pronounced Jen-a-chow-ski) office in DC at 202 418-1000. *File a formal FCC consumer complaint. *Send a message to your representatives through SaveTheInternet.com. The number I listed gets your right to his office and the links here go right to forms that are very easy to fill out. Please, for the sake of everything you love and need from the Internet, take a minute to make one move to preserve its openness. I think this needs to go deeper than the FCC (the supreme court has ruled that they don’t have jurisdiction).  Much as the FCC is on our side, we need to push for a law, or even an amendment.

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tanya77:

We’ve got a problem, guys.

Google and Verizon seem close to creating an agreement that would give them a “fast track” to Verizon’s customers. Put on your Evil Hat for a minute and think about what all the other sites and ISP’s can (will) think up now. You like the way your cable TV billing is set up? You want that in your Internet? That’s one way in which they want to control your Intenet life.

Here are some examples of how the ISP’s have already overstepped their positions:

Verizon blocking Planned Parenthood text messages.

ATT muting Eddie Vedder’s anti-Bush comments during a streaming Pearl Jam concert.

Comcast blocking legal, uncopyrighted P2P file-sharing. (Which Comcast couldn’t be punished for by the Court of Appeals BECAUSE THERE’S NO LAW AGAINST IT.)

Please let the FCC know that they need to fucking DO something. You can:

*Call FCC Chairman Genachowski’s (pronounced Jen-a-chow-ski) office in DC at 202 418-1000.

*File a formal FCC consumer complaint.

*Send a message to your representatives through SaveTheInternet.com.

The number I listed gets your right to his office and the links here go right to forms that are very easy to fill out.

Please, for the sake of everything you love and need from the Internet, take a minute to make one move to preserve its openness.

I think this needs to go deeper than the FCC (the supreme court has ruled that they don’t have jurisdiction).  Much as the FCC is on our side, we need to push for a law, or even an amendment.

from Shorter Excerpts
fleetfootedfox 4 weeks ago Tags 67 Notes
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“Details on a forthcoming agreement are spotty. But a deal could lead to Google paying internet-provider Verizon, to ensure that its content received priority as it made its way to consumers. The agreement could eventually lead to higher charges for Internet users”

In a Possible Blow to Net-Neutrality, Verizon, Google Talk Deal - Law Blog - WSJ

The linked NYT article suggests this is related to android - and google having its hands tied to allow Verizon’s filtering.

fleetfootedfox 4 weeks ago Tags 3 Notes
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