Posts Tagged ‘women’s rights’

Pregnant Iowa Woman Arrested for Falling Down

Talk about a thought crime.  I find it extremely frightening that this woman found herself in jail over this situation.
Life can’t get much worse for Christine Taylor. Last month, after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband, Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home. Paramedics rushed to [...]

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics: The use and misuse of abortion statistics

Mark Twain said, “”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”  In truth, all statistics are not created equal.
Yesterday I had a discussion with one of my readers about abortion. The comment left on the blog cited amazing statistics about “forced” abortion, statistics that I have not been able to verify [...]

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First lady honors abolitionist Sojourner Truth

Sometimes it seems there are very few women who rise up and distinguish themselves to the level of role model and hero.   Sojourner Truth was one of those women.   She bravely pointed out the smallness and meanness of the idea that women are somehow “less than” by virtue of their sex.   She broke the stereotype [...]

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Critics Say New Law Signed By President Karzai Allows Men To Rape Wives In Afghanistan

I guess it’s Karzai’s idea of equality to put into the law that men shouldn’t withhold sex from the wife longer than once every 4 months.  Of course the man is entitled to sex at least once every 4 days.  So much for equality.
What will it take to drag Islam into the 21st century?
A new [...]

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Amazon selling rape simulation game

Rarely do I run across something that shocks me to the core but this managed to do just that.  The description of the game on Amazon reads as follows:
Rapelay is an offshoot of the Illusion series, Interact Play.  You, like in previous installments, play as a public nuisance that gets away from captivity and starts [...]

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Obama tells Dems: drop family planning money

President Obama has told Congressional Democrats to drop a proposal to spend money on family planning from the proposed $825 billion plan to stimulate the economy,. a White House aides tells McClatchy. What a foolish thing to do.

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Obama Intends to Lift Family-Planning ‘Gag Rule’

JANUARY 23, 2009
Obama Intends to Lift Family-Planning ‘Gag Rule’
By LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will issue an order restoring U.S. funding for international family-planning groups involved with abortion. But he chose not to do so on Thursday, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
President Obama was breaking with the tradition set by his recent predecessors [...]

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Senate Approves Fair Pay for Women

It’s about durn time.   There is absolutely NO excuse for men getting paid more than a woman for the same job.
01/22/2009
Senate Approves Fair Pay for Women
Kerry Calls Action “Essential, Long Overdue”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – By a vote of 61 to 36, the Senate today overwhelmingly passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act strengthening a woman’s ability [...]

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Killing us Softly 3 Advertising’s Image of Women

This video deals with the very important subject of how women are treated in advertising. It is not safe to be viewed in the work place due to the frank nature of the discussion.

Thanks to Leslie for sending this to me.

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Taleban ‘will kill school girls’

I do not believe women will obtain the equality they seek until we raise a generation of women who understand that their worth is not in their sex appeal and ability to titillate the opposite sex; and a generation of men who understand they are not superior due to their gender.

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