Comments on: Ideology vs. Identity: Of Burning Bras, Sarah Palin, and Health Care Reform

By: Feminism Needs Sarah Palin Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle « Undecided

Feminism Needs Sarah Palin Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle « Undecided — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:26:45 +0000

[...] the issues of inadequate, unaffordable child care and–until recently–health care (reform of which Palin feverishly campaigned [...]

By: Deferential Smiling « Undecided

Deferential Smiling « Undecided — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:46:32 +0000

[...] we may not have read often enough, however, is that numbers alone do not equal, well, equality. Katha Pollit, a regular columnist for The Nation, parses it all out [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:28:21 +0000

You said it Shannon. I just attended a luncheon at which Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was the keynote speaker. She joked that she was losing her voice because she’d spent the last several days arguing with members of Congress. She asked all in attendance to mark Wednesday, Dec. 2, on their calendars as a day that pro-choice women (and men) will rally at the U.S. Capitol to meet with legislators and show that the Stupak amendment cannot stand and that anti-choice politics should not be allowed to hold healthcare reform hostage. Pro-choice pols told her they are bombarded by tea-bagging crazies. They need to hear from people like us, and the public and media needs to see the pro-choice show of “force.”

The amendment is a huge overreach, and it’s so horrifying that its biggest proponents in D.C. featured the lobby arm of the Catholic bishops (allegedly celibate men who live high on the hog and do nothing to care for the world’s unwanted children) and the secretive, philandering, moral values Congressional hypocrites living in the infamous C Street House.