Bush and the CDC have ordered up new regulations which prohibit any HIV teaching that includes condom use. From now on, it’s abstinence only, if you receive any federal funds. As I’ve noted before, abstinence only information doesn’t work.
Continue reading →Most of you have heard, I’m sure, that Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer just after election day. I have a number of friends who are survivors of breast cancer as well. Regular mammograms are essential in the early detection of breast cancer. Please visit The Breast Cancer Site, where you can (for free) click a button to donate money towards mammograms for those who can’t afford them. Because we all deserve a healthy life. And to Elizabeth Edwards, and any who are enduring this disease, I send my own blessing for your well-being and recovery.
Continue reading →In addition to outright lying, one way the right tries to enforce their morality is by denying information to people, particularly to women and teens. Because so much of their agenda is aimed at controlling sexuality and enforcing births, information about birth control cannot be allowed. While they talk about preventing abortions, their true underlying agenda becomes clear when we discuss birth control. In their view, the only information kids should get about sex is advice to abstain, and information about birth control and STDs shouldn’t be allowed. Now I don’t personally think teens in general should be having sex, … Continue reading →
If it means scaring even one woman away from abortion, the right is happy to lie. Women seeking abortions in Mississippi must first sign a form indicating they’ve been told abortion can increase their risk of breast cancer. They aren’t told that scientific reviews have concluded there is no such risk. Similar information suggesting a cancer link is given to women considering abortion in Texas, Louisiana and Kansas, and legislation to require such notification has been introduced in 14 other states.
Continue reading →…is to control women’s sexuality, like it or not. Druggists refuse to give out pill For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one day last March, the pharmacist refused to fill Lacey’s prescription because she did not believe in birth control…. The American Pharmacists Association, with 50,000 members, has a policy that says druggists can refuse to fill prescriptions if they object on moral grounds, but they must make arrangements so a patient can still get the pills. Yet some pharmacists … Continue reading →
A recent study found that people living in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Vermont were the healthiest in the nation, while people in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana were the least healthy. While every state has gotten healthier since 1990 when the survey started, the gains have been eroded by increasing levels of obesity, poverty, and a rise in the number of uninsured people. I think the saddest statistic is that we experienced another rise in infant mortality rates, and are now only 28th in our level of infant mortality. A baby born in the U.S. has twice the chance of dying … Continue reading →
