By Jessica • 18 years ago

Pretty in pink


This story is just nuts.

The University of Iowa has a bit of a controversy on its hands over their pink visitors’ locker room.
Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers — a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.
Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.
“I want the locker room gone,” law school professor Jill Gaulding told a university committee studying the athletic department’s compliance with NCAA standards, including gender equity.
For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed ...


This story is just nuts.

The University of Iowa has a bit of a controversy on its hands over their pink visitors’ locker room.
Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Arkansas Clinic Offers Free Abortions

Finally, some good reproductive health news.

A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home.
Despite protests from abortion opponents, Little Rock Family Planning clinic director Dr. Jerry Edwards said he has already performed six free abortions. The clinic usually charges between $525 and $600 for a first-trimester abortion.
“If we didn’t provide it now, they would get it later–a late-term abortion that would give greater risk to the mother’s health,” Edwards told KTHV-TV in Little Rock.

Kudos to Dr. Edwards for his help.

Finally, some good reproductive health news.

A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home.
Despite protests from abortion opponents, ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

The White House Project presents Commander in Chief


Last night, The White House Project held a special screening of ABC’s new show, Commander in Chief at Caroline’s Comedy Club in New York. I’ll admit it–the show was better than I expected.
Since I don’t want to ruin for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, all I’ll say is that I was more emotional over it than I wanted to be.
But the real highlight of the night was the party itself. Vanessa and I were having great laughs over the contrived girl-friendly music playing (Shania Twain’s I feel like a woman, some Pink, and Nancy Sinatra), but then they played En Vogue and I had to shut my ...


Last night, The White House Project held a special screening of ABC’s new show, Commander in Chief at Caroline’s Comedy Club in New York. I’ll admit it–the show ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Bush lawyers start beef.

Bush administration lawyers approached the Supreme Court yesterday to reinstate the ban on late-term abortion, arguing that it’s never been “medically indicated” as a safer surgical procedure.
They’re appealing the St. Louis 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decision back in July that struck down the ban as unconstitutional.
“In their appeal to the Supreme Court, the Bush administration lawyers said the lower courts should have deferred to the lawmakers in Washington, not the medical experts who testified in the case.
‘Congress’ findings concerning the medical necessity of partial-birth abortion were entitled to substantial deference,’ U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement told the court in Gonzales vs. Carhart.
Five years ago, O’Connor cast the decisive vote to ...

Bush administration lawyers approached the Supreme Court yesterday to reinstate the ban on late-term abortion, arguing that it’s never been “medically indicated” as a safer surgical procedure.
They’re appealing the St. Louis 8th Circuit Court ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

Unplanned pregnancy? Jeb Bush has a number you can call…

Jeb Bush is offering $2 million for anti-abortion groups in Florida to establish a statewide hotline for “crisis pregnancy counseling.”
The money will only be given to groups that “adhere to a strict policy of not promoting, referring or counseling for abortion.” I’m sure they’ll also throw in some inaccurate information about abortion, just for good measure.
The deadline passed with no bids filed. So now Jeb is considering awarding a no-bid contract.
Because, you know, that $2 million couldn’t be used to provide better prenatal care or subsidized child care or anything. Nah, Florida’s better off using that money to limit women’s choices.

Jeb Bush is offering $2 million for anti-abortion groups in Florida to establish a statewide hotline for “crisis pregnancy counseling.”
The money will only be given to groups that “adhere to a strict ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Random annoyance of the day


I wasn’t too shocked to find that Hooters restaurant has a statement in their handbook that employees are required to sign stating that — while harassment isn’t tolerated — they acknowledge that the concept of Hooters is based on female sex appeal, and that the environment is one where “joking and innuendo based on female sex appeal is commonplace.”
So they don’t dig harassment, but you can’t complain if you’re harassed.
Via The Smoking Gun.

I wasn’t too shocked to find that Hooters restaurant has a statement in their handbook that employees are required to sign stating that — while harassment isn’t tolerated — they acknowledge that the ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

Gun-happy legislators unwittingly support protective orders

So Rumsfeld is busy worrying about the military performing civilian duties, meanwhile the state of Michigan is ceding the power of deadly force and civil immunity to folks like you & me.
The state House of Representatives is considering the creation of a new law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves in their homes and cars. The language has a bit of a Wild West flair: “… a law-abiding person who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be, has no duty to retreat, and can ‘stand his or her ground’ and meet force with force, including deadly force if necessary…”
Gun-hating liberal that I ...

So Rumsfeld is busy worrying about the military performing civilian duties, meanwhile the state of Michigan is ceding the power of deadly force and civil immunity to folks like you & me.
The ...

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