If you still hold that it is only women (or girls) who are capable of getting pregnant, you are engaging in insidious and egregious cissexism. Who has abortions? For most of human history, the answer was obvious: women have abortions. Girls have abortions. Not any more. People have abortions. Patients have abortions. Men have abortions. “We must acknowledge and come to terms with the implicit cissexism in assuming that only
abortion
October 22, 2014
California forces Churches to pay for abortions, immediately [Darleen Click]
So where are the staunchiest peoples who claimed this could never happen, and promised their support in fighting it if it did? California’s Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion. At the insistence of the American Civil Liberties Union, the DMHC concluded that a 40-year-old state law requiring health
October 11, 2013
“Welcome to the disassembly line.” [Darleen Click]
CA Governor Moonbeam Brown signs laws making Gosnell-style clinics acceptable Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to sign a bill allowing non-physicians to perform a class of surgical abortions is being hailed by pro-choice (sic) forces as an advance for women’s health. […] California has long been an outlier for abortion extremism. It already has one of the highest abortion rates in the country, funds it routinely through state programs, has no
August 5, 2013
Wendy Davis (D-Gosnell): Majority of American women are just incapable of understanding Women’s Issues, or something … [Darleen Click]
Probably because their heteronormative cissexism and submission to the White Patriarchy has made them gender-traitors on Womyn’s Health THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The supporters of these bans, they argue that there really isn’t much of a difference between what happened in that Philadelphia case with abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell [killing born-alive infants] 23 weeks into pregnancy and legal late-term abortions at 23 weeks. What is the difference between those two, between
July 7, 2013
Babies are controversial … [Darleen Click]
Well, only when you want to save them A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as “too controversial.” The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media. The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours.
July 3, 2013
Stay classy! — The Kermit Gosnell Party yells “Hail Satan” at singing of “Amazing Grace” [Darleen Click]
Video from Adam Cahn It’s been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol. Cahnman’s Musings hasn’t been following the hearing. Instead, we’ve been participating in the surrounding events. LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of “hail Satan.” It’s taken us all day to get a video recording,
June 30, 2013
“Bad Optics” in Texas [Darleen Click]
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” ~~ Edmund Burke h/t Glenn Reynolds
March 29, 2013
The veil drops: Planned Parenthood endorses post-abortion infanticide [Darleen Click]
Even the Florida legislators were gobsmacked Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion. Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives
March 16, 2012
Zombie Science [Darleen Click]
Brains … BRAINS!!!! Scott Fischbach, the director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life uncovered the information showing a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses brain tissue from aborted unborn babies to treat macular degeneration. StemCells Inc. will inject fetal brain stem cells into the eyes of up to 16 patients to study the cells’ effect on vision. In its press release announcing the clinical trial, StemCells
February 29, 2012
The slope has slipped … when infanticide is presented as a “reasoned” argument [Darleen Click]
The irony of a paper entitled After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? running in the Journal of Medical Ethics Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption