What We Missed

A group of activists in the United Kingdom have organized a boycott of stores that sell exclusively pink toys–it’s called Pinkstinks.
Ireland’s strict abortion restrictions are being challenged in a European court on the basis that it violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
In Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first written opinion for the Supreme Court, she used the term “undocumented immigrant” for the first time in the Court’s history (rather than the highly contested term “illegal immigrant”). Thank you Sotomayor!
It looks like the public option is being negotiated out of the Senate health care reform bill. The Nation has more about this compromise and what it might mean for health care reform.