Three college papers reject anti-choice lies about EC

Pro-Life Wisconsin is crying censorship after three Wisconsin college newspapers -- the Marquette University Tribune, the UW-La Crosse Racquet and the UW-Stout Stoutonia -- declined to print a so-called "educational" ad containing outrageous lies about emergency contraception:



Aside from the silly Comic Sans font, let's break down just how full of shit this is:

Be good to yourself over spring break / Make smart choices the night before... that way you won't have any emergencies to deal with the morning after!

"Smart choices?" Like what? The ad doesn't say, so I can only conclude that this ad is not intended to educate, so much as to say "EC is for dummies!"

"Emergency contraception" is a powerful, high dose of steroids that tricks your body in to thinking it is pregnant.

"Powerful?" EC is extremely safe, has no serious or long-term side-effects, and has never killed anyone, so what's "powerful" about it, exactly?

These steroids can cause chemical abortions...

What the hell are "chemical abortions?" The ad doesn't say, so I can only assume that this ad is not meant to educate, but to confuse and mislead.

EC can not end a pregnancy or cause an abortion. "Chemical abortion" is pro-life lingo for any contraception that might stop a fertilized egg from implanting, if it doesn't stop ovulation and fertilization first. Most people don't consider using regular birth control pills, patches, shots or rings "abortion," but that's what they're implying here.

...and deadly blood clots.

Not true. Regular, long-term birth control pill use can cause blood clots (particularly if you smoke), but one-time or occasional EC use has never been linked to blood clots.

So to the editors of these three papers: THANK YOU for not printing anti-choice lies!

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"New" sins

So the Vatican has come up with seven new deadly sins, eh?

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research

3. Drug abuse

4. Polluting the environment

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

6. Excessive wealth

7. Creating poverty

Funny how birth control made the list, but child molestation didn't. Does that mean the Catholic church considers taking the pill to be worse than molesting kids? Speaking of which...

Closer to home, Girotti was asked about the many "situations of scandal and sin within the church," in what appeared to be a reference to allegations in the United States and other countries of sexual abuse by clergy of minors and the coverups by hierarchy.

The monsignor acknowledged the "objective gravity" of the allegations, but contended that the heavy coverage by mass media of the scandals must also be denounced because it "discredits the church."

Seriously? The media discredits the church? Pathetic.

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Spitzer

Ugh, I can't stand it when adulterous politicians drag their wives in front of national news cameras for the public apology. That poor woman looks completely humiliated and heartbroken. I feel so sorry for her.

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International Women's Day

So, today is International Women's Day, and all around the world, women are protesting for equal rights.

PARIS (AFP) — Calls to end forced marriage, domestic abuse and job discrimination marked International Women's Day on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets worldwide.The issues highlighted crossed a wide spectrum, including abortion rights in Italy, violence against women in Iraq and women hostages in Colombia.

Nearly 100 years old, the day marks the worldwide struggle for equal rights for half the globe's population.

Scores of women rallied outside a Baghdad hotel demanding an end to violence and equal social status with men.

"Stop neglecting women. Stop killing women. Stop creating widows," read a large banner that the women, from various ethnic and religious backgrounds, held at the Babylon Hotel in Baghdad's central Karada neighbourhood.

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai spoke out against forced marriages and said threats from a Taliban-led insurgency were keeping girls out of school.

"I call on religious leaders, tribal elders and particularly men: stop forcing your under-aged girls to marry, stop marrying them to old men," he said.

Up to 80 percent of Afghan women face forced marriage, and nearly two-thirds are married before the legal age of 16, according to the United Nations.

Events were also planned in neighbouring Pakistan, where "honour killings" of women and punishment gang-rapes have been widely reported.

And what do the conservative Christians have to say about that?

The Eagle Forum, a conservative, pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, says International Women's Day has gone off track since its founding in 1911, when its goals included giving women the right to work, vote and hold public office.

Nowadays, said the Eagle Forum, "IWD serves to advance radical feminism in the form of promoting pro-abortion and pro-gay rights legislation, ratification of ERA, affirmative action for women, Title IX, government babysitting services, and government wage control, commonly camouflaged as 'pay equity' or 'comparable worth.'

Putting an end to wage discrimination, domestic violence, rape, "honor killings" and forced marriages is "radical?" And here I thought that was just common fucking decency.

"The United States Government has no business supporting IWD," said Eagle Forum President Schlafly. "The radical feminists know that they can't complain about American women because we are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived, so they search the globe for oppression in other countries using taxpayer dollars."

Who said women were the fairer, kinder, gentler sex? Phyllis says, "if they're not American, screw 'em!"

"The radical feminists want to remake our laws in order to eradicate everything that is masculine from our culture and create a gender-neutral society," concluded Schlafly. "The United States should seriously reconsider lending its stamp of approval to future IWDs."

Don't like domestic violence, rape, forced marriage and "honor killings?" What are you, some kind of ball-busting, man-hating, anti-family radical feminist or something?

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AHAHAHAHAHA WHAT

No way! This is seriously an official campaign commercial for John McCain?? For TV? SERIOUSLY? The Daily Show couldn't ask for better material!

(Found here, along with a bunch of funny comments.)

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Maturity

How exactly can someone be too immature to decide to have an abortion, yet plenty mature enough to have a baby?

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My first Texas caucus

Voter turnout in Texas on Tuesday was amazing, and I got to witness it first-hand when I went to the caucus at my local precinct. I never even knew Texas had a caucus until this year! (Texas' primary/caucus never mattered until this year.) We got there at 6:30, thinking we'd just have to wait around until 7:15 (when the caucus was scheduled to start), sign in and leave. I was sure we'd be home before 8.

Boy, was I wrong. By 7:30, a crowd of over 200 Democrats had gathered outside in the cold. They kept us all waiting out there until after 8, as they finished up voting, packed up the machines and figured out how they were going to do the caucus. When they finally opened the doors, the crowd overwhelmed the small room. They had four people set up at a table, signing people in, and instead of four lines, everyone just stood in a huge mass in front of the table. People trickled out slowly.

At 8:30, my husband had to leave without signing in, because someone had to go home and get the kid to bed. (He had a big standardized test the next morning.) I stayed and kept waiting, even though my legs were getting awfully sore. Finally I got to sign just after 9 PM, two hours after the caucus was scheduled to start.

It was incredible! I've never seen so many of my neighbors at our polling place in my life, and all of them voting Dem! Across the state, 4.2 million people voted in the primary, smashing the old record of 2.7 million. And the Texas Democrats say that 1.5 million of them are newly-identified Democratic voters. If this level of excitement and participation continues in November, Texas could go blue. *fingers-crossed*

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