Avoiding the office

"In a devastating move, George W. Bush has nominated John Roberts to replace Justice O'Connor's swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court. By nominating John Roberts, George Bush has issued a slap in the face to every American who values personal privacy and a woman's right to choose.

With Bush in the White House and Congress in the grip of anti-choice leadership -- a woman's right to choose cannot afford to have John Roberts on the Supreme Court. The worst news, John Roberts has actually argued before the Supreme Court that Roe v. Wade should be overruled."

"In the past weeks, Republicans and Democrats have called on President Bush to nominate a moderate for the Supreme Court—someone who would honor the legacy of independent Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But last night, President Bush nominated Judge John Roberts, a far-right lawyer and corporate lobbyist, to fill her post on the Supreme Court.

We've got to stop Roberts. He opposed clean air rules and worked to help coal companies strip-mine mountaintops. He worked with Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr), and tried to keep Congress from defending the Voting Rights Act. He wrote that Roe v. Wade should be "overruled," and as a lawyer argued (and won) the case that stopped some doctors from even discussing abortion."

I suppose it is not possible to nominate a judge who isn't bias, and can judge fairly and not on personal beliefs. Or is it? Hmmm.
Every pro-choice, GBLT group, environmentalist and democrat in the country can be opposed (and most will be) to Bush's nominees but really, he will eventually get one in.

Also nice to know:

"You may be shocked to learn that Ohio's hospitals don't routinely provide women with the morning-after pill when they need it. Our report, Access to Emergency Contraceptives in Ohio's Emergency Rooms, paints a grim picture for women in our state. Only two hospital ERs claim to give out the morning-after pill to women regardless of the reason they requested it. Only 31 percent of hospitals told us that they routinely give out the morning-after pill to rape survivors, but a shocking 24 percent of hospitals told us that they NEVER dispense it, not even to women who have been raped."

"What is the morning-after pill?
Also known as emergency contraception or EC, the morning-after pill is a high dose of the same hormones that are in birth control pills. A woman can take it to prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours following unprotected sex, contraceptive failure, or sexual assault. It is most effective when taken in the first 24 hours.

Is EC the same as Mifepristone or RU-486 (the abortion pill)?
No EC is totally different than the abortion pill. RU-486 or Mifepristone can be taken in the first 7 weeks of pregnancy to cause an abortion. EC must be taken in the first 72 hours after sex, and has no effect on an established pregnancy, it only works to prevent a new pregnancy from occurring."

Maybe people think that women want to be pregnant and have no choice. We should be able to prevent or terminate a pregnancy. If a woman doesn't desire to have a child, especially in the case of rape or incest, then she shouldn't have to.


Dan Savage, who has a column Savage Love recently had a man write in who was transing into a woman, and wanted to simulate having a period by sticking a tampon in his ass. So he could really feel like a woman. Why the hell anyone one would want to have a period is beyond me. Do any women enjoy it? Maybe this guy could take something to give him cramps. Maybe he wants to worry about getting pregnant and not having access to birth control or legal abortion.