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Obama says not funding abortions is “tradition”

While Jos alerted us a couple of weeks ago to the anti-choice Democrats who are trying to keep abortion funding out of the health care reform plan, a recent interview with our president makes us wonder if he’s caving into their efforts.
In an interview with Katie Couric this week, he finally addressed abortion funding in health care reform, but it wasn’t too pleasing; he asserted he wasn’t looking to “micro-manage” which benefits are covered and that not funding abortion has generally been “the tradition”:

Katie Couric: Do you favor a government option that would cover abortions?
President Obama: What I think is important, at this stage, is not trying to micromanage what benefits are covered. Because I ...

By Miriam • 14 years ago

Where do you donate?

I just did something that I’ve done more times in the last year than in the rest of my life combined. I responded to an email asking me for money by giving some.
This time it was an email from Ira Glass of This American Life.
Last week, it was from MotherJones. I also recently gave a donation to an organization I’m on the board of, the Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. Other times it’s been Bitch Magazine, or my college alumni association. Each time it’s less than 30 dollars. Often it’s only 5.
I am by no means a rich person. I’m paying my bills, I have some savings from my first few ...

I just did something that I’ve done more times in the last year than in the rest of my life combined. I responded to an email asking me for money by giving some.
This time it was ...

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

Texas rape survivors charged for rape kits

Looks like Alaska isn’t the only state with a history of charging sexual assault victims for rape kits.
A local Houston news source featured the story, in which a number of survivors confirm that despite police authorities assuring them they wouldn’t pay a penny for medical evidence gathered after an assault, they end up getting letters of delinquency and denial letters for funding from the state’s Crime Victims Compensation Fund.
These denial letters are generally sent due to strict guidelines imposed by the legislature as to how the bills are paid. (The survivors must exhaust any other potential funding sources like the local police department or their insurance company.) The (not-so-)funny thing about this is that this ...

By Vanessa • 15 years ago

Quick Hit: A System From Hell

Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, has a piece at The Nation about her personal experiences with the healthcare system, what it has done (or I should say hasn’t done) for her family and what her story says about the challenges many women are faced with in the midst of our healthcare crisis.
h/t to C!

By Vanessa • 15 years ago

Henrietta Hughes and Housing as a Human Right

At a town hall meeting last week, Henrietta Hughes bravely stood up in front of the room full of people to ask the president for help for those like herself who are unemployed and forced to live in their car. She said:

“I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in. The housing authority has two years’ waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.”

Via Feministe, we find that her question resulted in an assault by conservative pundits, and it’s truly enough to make one sick. Michelle Malkin ...

At a town hall meeting last week, Henrietta Hughes bravely stood up in front of the room full of people to ask the president for help for those like herself who are unemployed and forced to live ...

By Ann • 15 years ago

Loving your day job is a privilege

Lauren had an understandably strong reaction to Courtney’s post last week about her daily schedule. In a follow-up post, Lauren described her own work life — and the economic situation surrounding her — and wrote:

The other day, when I wrote, “a room of one’s own is a privilege most of us don’t — and won’t ever — have,” I wasn’t trying to score some dramatic rhetorical point, or punish a successful person for being happy or having fulfilling work. In today’s economic hierarchy some of us will be stuck on Maslow’s lower rungs while others celebrate their own impending self-actualization — this isn’t a debate. But only one of these climbers gets the microphone.

She takes this a ...

By Miriam • 15 years ago

British Rape Crisis Center deals with financial instability

From England, the story of a rape crisis center that may have to close its doors due to the worsening financial situation.

There was a London rape crisis centre until about six or seven years ago that closed down when they lost their funding. They closed down without a blip of protest from the public. No one seemed to notice. It was very difficult to bring it to the public’s attention. Who is interested in rape crisis centres unless they’ve been raped? It’s a terrible situation.
We need £250,000 a year just to tick over. The Home Office bailed us out last year with £63,000, and £1m was set aside for similar organisations across the country, but there is no ...

From England, the story of a rape crisis center that may have to close its doors due to the worsening financial situation.

There was a London rape crisis centre until about six or seven years ago that ...

By Vanessa • 15 years ago

WNBA take cutbacks just in time for National Girls and Women in Sports Day

As this Wednesday, February 4th, was National Girls and Women in Sports Day, our friend Nancy Goldstein has a post up on Broadsheet about how the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has taken a big hit from the recession; teams are being mandated to cut their rosters from 13 to 11 players. Here’s a snippet:

It’s terrible news whenever any organization eliminates 20 percent of its workforce and people suddenly find themselves unemployed in a weak economy. But as the WNBA struggles, and if it folds, it’s taking along something else with it: the hopes of the first generation of Title IX-era female athletes who went through high school and college thinking they might someday actually be able to ...