War on Women's Health

I am a woman and I have these human rights:


The right to life.

The right to privacy.

The right to freedom.

The right to bodily integrity.

The right to decide when and how I reproduce.

We had evolved into a society that supports family planning and birth control with laws intended to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and the state costs that go with them – through obstetrical care, pediatric care and welfare. In one state, a free birth control law for low income women was estimated to cost the state $1.36 million and save it $8.1 million. By driving down these medical costs, we also incent better financial circumstances for low income women and families.

Suddenly, mostly male legislatures all around this country are trying to take away these laws and our rights by passing new, absurd laws that truly speak to "big government" . Why?

Don't kid yourself. It's all about power.


Above is from a prior post..............

I look at what Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina have recently done to exact Big Government on women   (Big Government is only worthwhile when it is keeping a thumb down on women, especially poor women who are young or of color).  My favorite is in North Carolina where Health Teachers, under a new law, will be forced to tell kids in middle school that having an abortion may make it more difficult to conceive a baby later in life.   This, as far as I can tell, is a complete falsehood.

I would probably expound on it, but Helen Philpot of  the "Margaret and Helen Blog"   does so much better: 


http://margaretandhelen.com/    July 2 post or:

http://margaretandhelen.com/2013/07/02/if-my-vagina-shot-bullets-could-i-conceal-it-from-rick-perry-and-john-kasich/


Kasich's signing ceremony for his sneaky attack on women this week.   Note all the women who surround him in support while he signs.   Oh, they're all old white men?  Isn't that strange?

Twerp Action #1

So good to see our fine young Vice Presidential hopeful is back in action.  He is a big favorite of mine.   For his first BIG effort in the new Congress (after voting AGAINST aid for victims of Sandy), he has chosen his favorite topic.

Abortion.  Check it out at Huffington Post.  Here is an exerpt:


Despite the deep unpopularity of fetal personhood bills in 2012, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has again decided to cosponsor the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a bill that gives full legal rights to human zygotes from the moment of fertilization.
Ryan, who reportedly has 2016 presidential ambitions, had to de-emphasize his opposition to abortion without exceptions during the 2012 election to align his position with presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But this year, Ryan has been tapped as a keynote speaker for the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List's sixth annual Campaign for Life Gala, and he is re-upping his support for the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the country.
The personhood bill, first introduced in 2011 by Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) and reintroduced by Broun last week, specifies that a "one-celled human embryo," even before it implants in the uterus to create a pregnancy, should be granted "all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood." Similar legislation has been rejected by voters in multiple states, including the socially conservative Mississippi, because legal experts have pointed out that it could outlaw some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization as well as criminalize abortion at all stages.


Probably, said zygote, if male, would have less of a rigamarole than I did to get a driver's license in Florida this year (see prior post). 


Yes, he didn't learn anything.  He believes that from the moment of sperm impact, when that zygote is formed, that it is a PERSON, with all the rights that a person has in these United States.  And thus he sponsors, once again, the bill he used to cosponsor with his old buddy... the "legitimate rape" guy (now voted out of the House and Senate). 

Because the most important thing we have going on right now, with fiscal issues, Syria, the environment, the gun violence issues, and immigration....oh, and let's not forget helping the Sandy victims... is making sure that we protect the zygote.  No abortions for any reason, no morning after pill, no hormonal birth control, no in vitro fertilization, etc, etc.

He's a big advocate of the rights of women.  He has been known, for some months, in my circle as "the Twerp".  And thus, it shall continue. 

Success on the Civil Rights Front

Post Script - 6/30/2012...Got my driver's license.  Huzzah!  Can't figure out why I look 7 years older in the new picture.  Oh, well, now I can sigh relief until 2019, when they'll probably decide in Florida that I can't get a new license because I might break the camera.  .....


To update an older post.... I breathed a sigh of relief last weekend when I found an envelope from the Town of Greece (suburb of Rochester, NY) in my mailbox. Inside was a certified copy of the 1/2 page paper document (all in longhand) that represents the reason why I changed my surname in 1979...yes, my marriage license.

 The working week was far too short and jam-packed this past week, with 3 key people out of the office and me as the chief "fill in". Especially since I did have to take time out for a doctor's appointment. On that front, I am congratulating myself; in two months since I consulted with an endocrinologist, and followed her advice, I have reduced my A1c3 reading from 10.1 (10 is almost out of control diabetes) to 7.1, a respectable reading when you consider that, below the level of 6, you really don't have diabetes.

 Thus, I did not act on the receipt of this seemingly harmless looking document from the past. This week, I plan to take it, with all my other forms of ID, to the Florida DMV and renew my driver's license. Hopefully, I will have good news for y'all and will continue to be able to drive, vote, and work in FL (my job requires an active DL and auto insurance).. now that I have proved my identity to the conservative majority in the great state of Florida. Having proven to the Social Security Administration in 1979 that I had married and changed my name, I have to do so all over again to the state of Florida, some 33 years later. This, in the state that has already granted me a license 3 times, and allowed me to vote in 8 election years.

 Believe me, if men had to prove their marriages to the great state of Florida to be able to drive, that law would be overturned in a heartbeat!

So, look for the news that says I have proved that I can receive the rights of a citizen in the great state by week's end!