Tag Archives: Todd Akin

Anti-abortion “personhood” legislation comes back to Michigan… with a new twist

By Mark | November 24, 2012

Conservative legislators in several states, knowing that a Constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion is unlikely, have begun attempts to work around the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. Most notably, these legislative attempts have involved, in some way, shape or form, the concept of personhood – the notion that a fertilized egg is in fact [...]

Posted in Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, Affordable Care Act, Alabama, fetus, Georgia, House Bill 5684, House Bill 5685, Jeff Irwin, Jud Gilbert, Lisa Posthumus Lyons, Mississippi, Oklahoma, old white men making decisions on women's health, Paul Ryan, personhood, Progress Michigan, reproductive justice, Roe v. Wade, Sanctity of Human Life Act, tax breaks, tax code, tax credits, Virginia, women's health, Zach Pohl | 19 Comments

Election Night 2012… results, interpretation, and celebration

By Mark | November 6, 2012

OK, I’ve got my beer and I’m in front of a television… let’s do this, America. 8:13 I just talked with Growing Hope’s Amanda Edmonds. She heard from a friend of hers this morning that there was a handwritten sign telling voters at the Huron County Township Hall that state-issued voter ID was mandatory. Amanda [...]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Grayson, Amanda Edmonds, Bridget M. McCormack, Carol Kuhnke, collective bargaining, Congress, Connie Marie Kelley, Debbie Stabenow, Donald Trump, Election Day, election results, electronic voting, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, Gretchen Driskell, Indiana, Jeff Meyers, Jim Fink, Kerry Bentivolio, legitimate rape, Mark Ouimet, Massachusetts, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pete Hoekstra, Presidential politics, rape, Richard Mourdock, Romney, Senate, Shelia Johnson, solar powered abortion equipment, Steve Pierce, Syed Taj, Tammy Baldwin, tea party, Thayrone X, Van Jones, Victoria Jackson, Virginia, voter suppression, WAAM, Wisconsin | 126 Comments

Syed Taj, Muslim candidate for Congress, subjected to outrageous racist attacks

By Mark | October 29, 2012

Last week, when I noticed that the American Medical Association (AMA) had started taking out television ads in support of our friend Syed Taj, I knew that racist attacks from the right were inevitable. The AMA ads signaled to me that the race was close (as the AMA doesn’t invest in races that aren’t winnable), [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AMA, American Medical Association, attack ads, Birthers, CAIR, Canton, Canton Board of Trustees, conspiracy theories, Council on American Islamic Relations, election fraud, fear mongering, Fowlerville High School, Freedom's Defense Fund, Hammas, House of Representatives, Islam, Jerome Corsi, Kerry Bentivolio, Michigan's 11th congressional district, political ads, Santa Clause impersonator, Swiftboating, Syed Taj, Thaddeus McCotter | 28 Comments

Do yo think “Life Begins at Rape” bumper stickers would sell at the RNC?

By Mark | August 27, 2012

People are up in arms this evening over something that vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said recently, when asked to comment on his fellow Republican Todd Akin’s statements concerning “legitimate rape”. (As you’ll recall, Akin, who is running for Senate, had said that “real” rapes don’t result in pregnancy, implying that women who claim to [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, allegations of rape, bumper stickers, conception, conception begins at rape, legitimate rape, life begins at rape, Mark's big ideas, marketing, Paul Ryan, people interviewed in closets, pork, Presidential politics, rape, reproductive justice, RNC, women's rights | 17 Comments

Hoekstra advocates for the repeal of the 17th Amendment, suggesting that Washington insiders and special interests could do a better job of picking our senators

By Mark | August 20, 2012

Our favorite race-baiting candidate for Senate, Pete Hoekstra, is in the national spotlight again. This time it’s for comments he made concerning the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which, as you may remember from sixth-grade history class, passed in 1913, allowing American citizens the opportunity to directly elect their Senators by popular vote. (Prior to [...]