I agree, qob, that legislation can hopefully bring about change. I say hopefully because just look at the backlash that has been going on in the US by states trying to rebuke or limit Roe v. Wade. From the attacks on Planned Parenthood (who do so many other health/LGBTQ services for men and women beside [...]

That’s a good point. I doubt it because it wouldn’t directly be the Taliban’s doing. Only the Taliban’s methods to end lives; we’re the great liberator.

Today my local newspaper ran this political cartoon by Jimmy Margulies (c) 2012: http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/9ed13809-8403-4988-b299-dea8c9da6646.html Is it just me or is it upsetting how the focus is being put on the Taliban and not Malala? I don’t think the media should be focusing solely on the Taliban and their atrocities. Shouldn’t we focus on what Malala [...]

Thank you for the clarification, qob! If nothing else, the Marie Stopes clinic is a step in the right direction for democracy.

Whether unintentional or not , Gov. Brown is violating the most basic of human rights; he is denying these workers to be treated as human beings and not cheap, silenced labor. I hope something can be done to bring the bill back into legislature or have Gov. Brown’s veto repealed. If not on a state [...]

This is genuinely heartbreaking! I hope the petition sways the PA government to do the right thing. I know our government is a jumbled mess of bipartisanship right now, but the death penalty needs to be brought under federal jurisdiction and legislature, like slavery, suffrage, and abortion were. Call me naïve, but I honestly don’t [...]