Abortion —
Well here’s a nice tactic: take an otherwise innocuous legislative amendment designed to exempt grandmothers and Greyhound drivers from liability for transporting a minor across state lines for medicinal purposes, and rewrite the summary to say the amendments are all about protecting rapists and pedophiles. Attempts to change the summaries back to something halfway accurate […]
It’s unfortunate that the top Google result for Roe vs. Wade is a site full of anti-abortion propaganda. Following RadGeek’s suggestion, then, it’s time to start pointing out more appropriate sources of information about abortion.
This has been a public service announcement. Now, I need some more ripe-key-limeade - in what universe does it make sense […]
Not really, but at Alas (and subsequently Mousewords) there’s been discussion of an essay which attempts to take precisely the opposite of my preferred approach to abortion rights: namely, it considers the problem of fetal value in a hypothetical universe where it cannot be counterbalanced by a right to bodily integrity. And then gives a […]
I feel like I’ve been abnormally serious here lately, what with the politics and the politics and the what-all. I almost had a bit last week on the disgusting way I clear my sinuses, but just couldn’t muster the enthusiasm for a good old-fashioned TMI yuck-fest. This isn’t supposed to be a serious blog, but, […]