Does that sound trashy enough for CNN? Because if Birth Pangs is going to deconstruct the smarmy spin in CNN’s sexist news reporting, we should at least use a headline that is faithful to their style. First, some facts. On Wednesday, January 9, a search for a missing Marine was disclosed to North Carolina media, [...]
New York Abstains from Abstinence Funding
September 22, 2007 By
Boy howdy. When a bureaucrat turns down millions of dollars you gotta believe the program it is supposed to fund really really sucks. Yesterday, New York State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines issued a statement on the department’s website. The Bush administration’s Abstinence Only Program is an example of a failed national health-care policy directive, [...]
From Free Love to Tough Love
July 27, 2007 By
So what the heck is going on with those USian Democrats and women’s rights, we in the anti-pregnancy movement have been wondering. They’ve actually increased funding for the $1.5 billion ‘ideological boondoggle of historic proportions’, a.k.a abstinence education program while continuing their usual talk about contraception and pro-choice policies. A story in the LA Times [...]
Salad spinners
July 3, 2007 By
There’s an expression that Francophones use: “Vendre sa salade” which means that in order to sell the harvest from one’s own garden, one must glorify the eventual product. It can also be used as an expression of lobbying and schmoozing. The salad spinners over at the fetus-fetishing, abortion-criminalizing sites are churning out a different kind [...]
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