It's been two months since I last posted something. Not that there hasn't been stuff to write about. Trips to Montana and Spain. Political season locally and nationally. For some reason I just couldn't get into it. Until.... Todd Akin.
Akins is the Missoui GOP candidate running for Senate. He misspoke in a local interview about pregnancy and rape and the whole nation seems to have heard. Apparently, there are some cruel reports masquerading as science claiming that when women are legitimately or forcibly or really, really raped, they can't get pregnant.
Mr. Akin was only repeating what he and many, many others have said in the past. Mississippi voters heard this demeaning message just before they rejected the personhood amendment to their state constitution.
In Texas, we have seen this coming on. This war on women. Just yesterday 3 federal judges from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Gov. Perry's favor, allowing the state to cut federal dollars supporting Planned Parenthood's non-abortion clinics in Texas. This translates into cutting access for thousands of women to medical services including cancer screenings, well-woman exams and birth control.
So, thank you Todd Akin for getting me back to my blog. I have a feeling this won't be the last we hear from you and your nutty professors.
Below is a link to a most brilliant and funny blog regarding this issue.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08/an-apology-from-todd-akin.html
5 comments:
Really hard to believe....but I wonder if this is coming to the fore now because all of the people that fought the Row fight, and ERA and equal pay are now very elderly, or dead....and there have been no women/men to 'take their place' in that fight, thinking the fight has been 'won'?? I agree this belief has always been there among this set of cretins....they never supported all the above issues on behalf of women...and never knew anyone that did....and all those people were just wrong...and if one belongs to the party of 'we only believe what we can make up" vs. science, anything is possible. Including the stripping of every right, dignity, autonomy and self-determimation of all women in this country. Nothing less will be acceptable
oh...and I do want to know about Spain...I totally forgot about that trip....too many distractions here ....
I too wonder if it's a case of us old war horses gone to pasture without anyone to take our place. There are a ton of smarty young men and women, but their voices are dilluted i think because of so many media (is that the right grammar? so much media?) i also wonder if we just don't take these people seriously, so we don't take the threat seriously. that's our arrogance.
Spain was good. educational. i feel i have a larger world view... for now. food was meh? i got you a rosary from the Toledo Cathedral as in Holy Toledo reference. oh, and it was stinkin hot. a couple of days over 100 degrees, unusual for them. thanks for commenting, btw.
I was listening to NPR today on my way to work, and they were interviewing a woman from Oshgosh Wisconsin(?), and she was saying that she didn't have anything in common with Obama. "They have different morals," etc.
What I thought was really annoying about it, though, was that she said she didn't buy this "war on women" because she was a self-made woman and never expected the government to buy her "whatevers". The next thing she said was, "There are many places a person can go to get free contraceptives, anyways." And I screamed at the radio, "NOT ANYMORE BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR AGAINST WOMEN!"
If republicans truly wanted people to get off welfare, taking away contraceptives and affordable health care and screenings is surely the exact wrong way to do it.
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