Posts Tagged Meryl Streep

By Vanessa • 12 years ago

Quick Hit: Meryl Streep vouching for a Bill of Reproductive Rights makes me happy

My inner fangirl is totally squealing like a 5-year old right now.

Draw The Line, this new campaign for a Bill for Reproductive Rights is pretty awesome, and much-needed. And I appreciate the seemingly-alarmist-but-actually-totally-real “what’s at stake” feel the campaign has, considering how friggin’ bad things already are. With 55% of women of reproductive age live in states that are hostile to abortion, reproductive rights will soon no longer be “rights” at all. “Reproductive restrictions” will be the status quo, and that simply can’t happen.

So sign it, and pass it on. After all, Meryl Streep says so!

Transcript after the jump. 

My inner fangirl is totally squealing like a 5-year old right now.

Draw The Line, this new campaign for a Bill for Reproductive Rights is pretty awesome, and much-needed. And I appreciate the seemingly-alarmist-but-actually-totally-real “what’s at ...

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By Vanessa • 14 years ago

What Does Meryl Streep have in common with the Tea Party?

That they both have their eyes on a women’s history museum to be built in Washington D.C. — but with entirely different intentions. Streep recently held a gala raising funds as well as pledged $1 million dollars to help create the the building, while Tea Party Republicans and general misogynists Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn are intent on making sure the museum is never built.

As Taylor Marsh informs us, this is because our favorite lady-hating ladies, Concerned Women for America, reached out to the two senators to do something about the museum because apparently “women’s history” is just code for “abortion’s history.” So the two fellas put a”hold” on the bill that would sell land ...

That they both have their eyes on a women’s history museum to be built in Washington D.C. — but with entirely different intentions. Streep recently held a gala raising funds as well as pledged $1 million dollars ...