Last year, Republicans in Michigan’s legislature passed a budget which included a $700,000 “abortion alternatives program” to be managed by the faith-based organization Real Alternatives. While the Pennsylvania non-profit claims to have brought the abortion rate in their home state Detroit News. The Michigan Legislature won’t fix the roads. It hasn’t shown much interest in […]
Posted in Church and State, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, abstinence only, anti-abortion, anti-choice, anti-science, contraception, Jeff Irwin, Kevin Bagatta, Michigan Department of Community Health, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services Program, Pennsylvania, pro-life, Progressive Women's Caucus, pseudo-science, Pure Michigan, Real Alternatives, women's health, women's rights |
By Mark | December 12, 2013
Late yesterday afternoon Michigan Republicans passed controversial legislation making it illegal for insurance companies to include abortion procedures as part of their standard coverage, even in cases of rape or incest, or where the life of the mother might be in jeopardy. Should women in the sate of Michigan require abortion coverage, in the opinion […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, abortion rider, Biblical law, Blue Cross Blue Shield, health insurance, incest, legislative end run, Michigan Republicans, omnibus, rape, rape insurance, religious extremism, reproductive justice, Rick Snyder, Right to, Right to Life of Michigan, Roe v. Wade, SB 1293 |
By Mark | August 18, 2011
This was said by Clementine shortly after I held her for this photo, which was taken outside Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry in Orlando, Florida. I think I must have shrieked in pain when leaning over to put her down. (Apparently roller coasters aren’t the best things for people who have sheets of peanut […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged aging, back pain, big news, Clementine, Harry Potter, Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Linette, Mark's mating habits, news, Orlando, public service announcement, Rebeccah, the second kid, totally quotable Clementine, Universal Studios |
After all, there’s no reason that victims of rape and incest shouldn’t be able to share this special day with everyone else… [Tonight’s post is brought to you by the phrase, “rape audit,” which was just introduced into the American lexicon thanks to our our friends in the Republican Party, who are apparently all for […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Other, Politics, Rants | Also tagged abortion, big brother, holidays, incest, motherhood, Mothers' Day, national holidays, privacy, rape, rape audits, small government, The Handmaid's Tale |
I was going to let the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill go by without comment, but then it dawned on me how ironic it was that it fell on Mother’s Day. I’d have to dig into the old history books to confirm it, but I’m thinking that maybe it wasn’t a coincidence. Maybe, […]
Posted in Health, Politics, sex | Also tagged 50th anniversary, Anthony Comstoc, birth control, Elena Kagan, family values, Greenwich Village, Helen Gurley Brown, Holly Golightly, John Paul Stevens, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Loretta Lynn, marriage, Mothers' Day, Ms. Magazine, National Organization for Women, New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, RIck Santorum, Sex and the Single Girl, sex for recreation, sex for reproduction, Shepard Aronson, songs about birth control, Supreme Court, The Pill, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights |
