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Notes from a bitch…taking time for some spring-cleaning…

Ever been so busy…so booked and scheduled and over-committed…that you just let the junk that accumulates from living this thing called life pile up and tell yourself you’ll deal with it when you get a minute?
Yeah, me too!
Well, a couple of weeks ago I was accused by my roommate of cluttering up our living space.
I was pissed until I realized that I was indeed cluttering up our living space (damn it) and then realized that, because I was cluttering up my living space, I couldn’t issue the comeback to my accuser that she wasn’t exactly clutter-free her damn self (damn it again!) without sounding like a brat.
With those realizations my personal festival of spring-cleaning began.

Ever been so busy…so booked and scheduled and over-committed…that you just let the junk that accumulates from living this thing called life pile up and tell yourself you’ll deal with it when you get a minute?
Yeah, ...

Notes from a bitch…the truth is true…

“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” Bayard Rustin
Shall we?
***steps up on soap box***
The internets and political chats are all buzzing about the vote on federal health care reform legislation and pundits are speculating over what will define victory and for whom or what will define defeat for that other side and why.
With so much speculation floating around, I just want to put some known things out there into the universe.
Ahem.
I ain’t afraid of a damn thing related to health care reform.
Let me say that one more time…I am not afraid.
You see, health care is a right.
Mmmhmm, and no legislative defeat can change that…it would ...

“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” Bayard Rustin
Shall we?
***steps up on soap box***
The internets and political chats are all buzzing about the vote on federal health care ...

Notes from a bitch – Happy International Women’s Day…

Today is International Women’s Day and I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge a woman who had a huge influence on my life.
Shall we?
This is a thank you to my maternal Grandmother O.T.
My maternal Grandmother was born in the early 1900’s. We’re not exactly sure when, since she never acknowledged her true age. At some point she reached 50 years and decided to stay there…and no, we’re not exactly sure when she hit the 50 mark. What I do know is that my mother was born in 1942 and that my Grandmother was in her early 20’s when she gave birth to her…so, that narrows the window a bit to the 19-teens to ...

Today is International Women’s Day and I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge a woman who had a huge influence on my life.
Shall we?
This is a thank you to my maternal Grandmother O.T.
My ...

Notes from a bitch…reflecting on the “punishment from God” claim…

Shall we?
Last week I was disturbed to see news reports that a Virginia Delegate, Robert G. Marshall, charged that women who have abortions run the risk of birth defects in later pregnancies that are a punishment from God.
Mr. Marshall has since tried to clarify his remarks, which were first reported by Capital News Service (produced by students at the Virginia Commonwealth University), but has only succeeded in lodging his foot more firmly into his mouth.
The issue is not what Mr. Marshall said…
“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the firstborn of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent ...

Notes from a bitch…because justice demands it…

The health care reform process has been brutal.
For months I’ve joined activists and volunteers who have been working to make sure women are not left with less reproductive health care coverage after health care reform that we currently have.
For months I’ve watched anti-choice language work its way into the House version of the health care reform bill and then the Nelson compromise insert the likelihood of regional disparities in coverage and funding bans into the Senate version of the bill.
Then there was that Senate election last week in Massachusetts that threw health care reform into chaos.
Yeah, it’s been brutal as hell…but they call this shit a struggle for a reason.
I spent last week fighting a ...

The health care reform process has been brutal.
For months I’ve joined activists and volunteers who have been working to make sure women are not left with less reproductive health care coverage after health care reform that ...

Notes from a bitch… how many angels fit on the tip of a pencil?

Confession – I’ve been trying to write a response to Emily Bazelon’s piece “Ben Nelson’s abortion provision in the health care bill sends the issue back to the states” for the past week.
The problem is that I’ve struggled to translate my response into words.
I slept on it, ignored it…set the whole damned thing aside and indulged in several days away from all things news, health care reform and blog related.
I picked it back up this morning.
Shall we?
In her double X post, Bazelon graciously acknowledges that requiring individuals to write two separate checks toward insurance coverage – one for abortion coverage and one for the rest of their health care – is a bad ...

Confession – I’ve been trying to write a response to Emily Bazelon’s piece “Ben Nelson’s abortion provision in the health care bill sends the issue back to the states” for the past week.
The problem is ...

Notes from a bitch…out of sight…

I recently watched a television show that presented a year-end review of newspapers and publications that died in 2009. The segment ran through a list of well-known magazines and big daily newspapers that ceased publication and pondered the impact of that on the communities those publications served. As I watched, I noted that the reporter failed to mention the fact that lots of local community newspapers died in 2009 too. Local and regional community newspapers may not be on media critic’s radar, but they should be…and their loss may have a larger impact than people think.
Full disclosure – I used to work in marketing for the LGBT community newspaper here in St. Louis Missouri. I ...

I recently watched a television show that presented a year-end review of newspapers and publications that died in 2009. The segment ran through a list of well-known magazines and big daily newspapers that ceased publication and ...

Notes from a bitch…pondering what it all means…

When the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of health care reform that includes an abortion ban…which was their way of trying to leave women’s access to the full range of reproductive health care services on the curb while the reform bus pulled away…well, it took some folks by surprise.
Many pro-choice voters were shocked that so many self identified Democrats didn’t seem to understand a key plank of the democratic platform…or the pledge made by President Obama at the beginning of this reform campaign that no one would lose the coverage they already have…or the fact that women vote, that the separation of church and state actually means churches and the state need to be separate, ...

When the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of health care reform that includes an abortion ban…which was their way of trying to leave women’s access to the full range of reproductive health care services ...

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