{ May 29th }
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Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

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Let me reiterate that for you all …

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

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I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out:

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.

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{ May 25th }
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The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies.
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- Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.

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{ 4:06 pm }
I thought I was pro-life but God told me I had the ‘spirit of abortion’

attentiondeficitaptitude:

stfuprolife:

krokodile submitted:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-thought-i-was-pro-life-but-god-told-me-i-had-the-spirit-of-abortion

…wow.

1) The journalist-style writing of this page is extremely poor.  I know it’s meant to be biased, but fucking Jesus on a pogo stick.  What the hell is this crap?

2) THAT WOMAN HEARD THE VOICE OF HER GOD

3) Anti-choicers take this page seriously.  That’s what we’re dealing with.  

4) My word. :/

This is exactly why “pro-life” really does mean anti-choice. If contraception is the gateway-drug to abortion, then we really don’t have any choice do we? It is be a baby-incubator for life, or die trying not to be. Or be celibate. But even that would probably be frowned upon by some people, unless you’re a nun, because you’re still not being “open to life.” 

First of all, children ARE a burden! They are difficult to care for and really expensive. Pregnancy isn’t all glowy sunshine either. In fact, it can be pretty dangerous. I’m so sick of “Christians” like this trying to shame women for thinking that pregnancy and motherhood aren’t all Magical Sparkly Fountains of Joy and Fulfillment!!!

I’m tired of hearing that I’m making God cry because I use contraception. Somehow, I think God wants me to continue pursuing my dreams, and for my partner to get his Master’s degree, and for us to pay our student loans. I highly doubt God hates us for wanting to establish careers and a stable home before even considering children. 

So, yeah; I doubt God is condemning women for getting abortions rather than be forced to live in poverty with hungry children, or carry the child of their rapist or abuser, or forfeit their dreams and squander their talent. If God loves us so much, why would He want those things for us? If God intended my sole purpose and only source of fulfillment to be motherhood, why was I blessed with talent, intellect, and creativity? Why was I given these gifts if I was never intended to use them? 

Who are you to say that modern medicine and the discoveries of contraception are not an act of God? Perhaps, after guiding us to so many scientific advances, God is actually disappointed with those of us who don’t utilize them to take responsibility for our bodies and lives. Literally letting Jesus take the wheel will never get you anywhere but into a car crash. You gotta meet Him halfway. Anyone can get knocked up! It isn’t a difficult thing to do! What is hard to do, is to create a solid loving home to bring a child into. That is what being “open to the gift life” really means. Simply having unprotected sex isn’t being “open to life.” Simply getting married does not make you a solid family. It takes work and responsibility. Children are a blessing when they are wanted, and when their parents have the means to care for them. So these people can keep their smug self-righteousness to themselves. 

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{ 3:41 pm }
Institute for women in politics is flash point of Missouri budget debate - KansasCity.com

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greaterthanlapsed:

JEFFERSON CITY — For 16 years, a little-noticed institute at the University of Missouri-St. Louis has been trying to increase the number of women in governmental, civic and policymaking roles.

The institute, which holds leadership seminars and helps women network, is named for the late Sue Shear, a Clayton Democrat who served in the Missouri House for 26 years, longer than any other woman.

But on Monday night, her namesake, the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life, became a flash point when the House debated an amendment to bar the university from operating the program — or any like it.

In impassioned speeches, Republican women called the institute partisan and unnecessary, while Democratic women said jettisoning it would be a step backward in the battle for equality.

Of course they did.

“Women” are not a partisan issue. At least, we weren’t before this crop of GOP reps. Now it’s an organization-closing uterus-policing birth-control-denying no-healthcare-for-anyone free-for-all.

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DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST

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DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST

DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST 

DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST 

DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST 

  • DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST 
  1. DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST
  2. DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST  
  3. DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST   

DON’T COMPARE ABORTION TO THE FUCKING HOLOCAUST

{ 11:16 am }
Re: “Pro-Choice” Americans at Record-Low 41% - The Problem With Polling About Moral Beliefs

abaldwin360:

Another year, another Gallup poll on abortion for anti-choicers to misleadingly represent in a bid to deceive the country into believing they’re winning in the court of public opinion. Of course, Gallup shares the blame for this travesty, since it publishes its polling results with a lead about the poll that asks if people identify as pro-choice or pro-life. Inevitably, “pro-life” polls well, much better than it would if it were more accurately phrased as “anti-choice” or “anti-abortion,” because it’s a fuzzy-wuzzy term that deliberately distracts from the legal and sexual freedom issues at the heart of the abortion debate. This year, the poll found that 50 percent of Americans relate to the empty term “pro-life,” and only 41 percent to the term “pro-choice.”

But if you actually bother to read on, you’ll find that Americans are still majority pro-choice, which is why the direct abortion ban in South Dakota and the personhood law in Mississippi went down when put to an actual vote. Scrolling down, you find that only 20 percent of Americans support the anti-choice movement’s goal in banning abortion, with 25 percent of Americans supporting abortion rights in all cases, and 52 percent of Americans wanting abortion legal with some restrictions. (Most people imagine a legal regime that will somehow allow abortion for themselves and their friends, but disallow it for those dirty sluts they hear about so much.) This means that only two out of five people who identify as “pro-life” actually align themselves with the so-called pro-life view, demonstrating neatly how useless that term is and why it needs to be replaced with a more accurate term like “anti-abortion,” or my preferred term “anti-choice,” which encompasses their anti-contraception activism alongside their anti-abortion activism.

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{ 11:14 am }
Why Wisconsin voters should recall Walker and Kleefisch on 06.05.2012

justinspoliticalcorner:

It is 11 days away from the critical, all-important recall election that will decide the fates of not only Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch; but the 4 GOP State Senators under recall (Scott Fitzgerald, Van Wanggaard, Terry Moulton, and Jerry Petrowski)

The polls open at 7AM CDT and close at 8PM CDT, on June 5th, 2012.

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Governor/Lt. Governor:
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Donate to Defeat Scott Walker group
Daily Kos Wisconsin Recall Fund
Wisconsin Democratic Party
DFA Wisconsin (Recall Campaign)

State Senate:
Lori Compas (WI-SD13)
John Lehman (WI-SD21)
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Donna Seidel (WI-SD29)
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Remember NOT to let Kathy Nickolaus, Karl Rove, The Koch Brothers, and their buddies win this battle! Wisconsin’s sanity is counting on every single voter and the GOTV operation.

Handy Hashtags on Twitter to use: #wirecall, #recallwalker, #wiunion, #recallkleefisch,#reclaimwi, #unitedwi

cross-posted from Daily Kos

{ May 24th }
US Rep Walter Jones (R-NC) introduces bill that would allow churches to engage “in partisan politicking,” such as endorsing candidates from the pulpit, “without losing their tax-exempt status”

seriouslyamerica:

abaldwin360:

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) appeared today on Truth that Transforms, the flagship radio program of Truth in Action Ministries, to push his Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act, which the Interfaith Alliance notes would allow houses of worship to engage “in partisan politicking,” such as endorsing candidates from the pulpit, “without losing their tax-exempt status.” Truth in Action Ministries recently produced a film likening the rule to Nazism, and Jones told host John Rabe that the tax provision is like “communism” and “socialism.”

The congressman also conflated the risk of forfeiting tax-exempt status with losing civil rights, saying that the IRS has eroded the “freedom of speech” in the U.S.  Jones also said that unlike liberals, “those on the conservative side believe in freedom of speech and therefore they’re not reporting anyone.”

The last church to have lost its tax-exempt status was Randall Terry’s church which took out an advertisement opposing the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

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Seriously, fuck this. If you want to engage in the political process, that’s AWESOME - but you don’t get to be tax-exempt campaign headquarters.

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quickhits:

Things that make you wonder…

Every time Wisconsin recall supporters come out with a poll showing Tom Barrett doing pretty well against Scott Walker, We Ask America comes out with their own poll saying, “Nope! Totally Wrong! Walker’s running away with this thing!”

Could the fact that We Ask America is the polling arm of the rightwing Illinois Manufacturers Association have anything to do with that?

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demnewswire:

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{ May 22nd }
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Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil… The unnamed girl’s mother and doctors were excommunicated for agreeing to Wednesday’s emergency abortion yet the Church has not taken formal steps against the stepfather, who is in custody. Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the man would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed “a heinous crime”, the Church took the view that “the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious”.
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Brazil Rocked by Abortion for 9-Year-Old Rape Victim: Church excommunicates mother and doctors—but not accused rapist (via cocknbull)

I just want to repeat the crux of this quote so it’ll sink in: the Catholic church believes that a 9-year-old rape victim getting an abortion is worthy of excommunication but actually raping a 9-year-old is NOT worthy of excommunication.

I was raised Catholic and this shit (aside from not believing in god) is why I don’t practice it anymore.

Love,

Rabble

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sigur-roskolnikov:

If trans* people tell you something you’ve done is transphobic -

If people of color tell you something you’ve done is racist -

If women tell you something you’ve done is sexist -

If queer people tell you something you’ve done is homophobic -

If disabled people tell you something you’ve done is ableist -

If any oppressed group tells you that something you’ve done is oppressive -

- then you fucking.  Don’t.  Do.  It.  Again.