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Ana Marie Cox live blogs Obama admin’s first White House Briefing
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This live blog incorporates tweets from Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post’s The Fix. It is a great read. Overall, doesn’t sound like too much news – but we do learn about Obama and Blackberries.
You know, I actually think maybe Obama’s Director of New Media – Macon Phillips – should consider hiring or appointing someone to do an official live-blog of these things. Hmm – where’s that suggestion page thingy for the new government?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:17 pm January 22nd, 2009 in Barack Obama, Media, Whitehouse09 | Comments Off
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What is with all the men? All white men except for President Obama
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From the Huffington Post, “DAY 2: ERASING BUSH’S FOREIGN POLICIES President Signs Order to Close Guantanamo Bay”
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:52 pm January 22nd, 2009 in Barack Obama, Gender, Government, Women | 19 Comments
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[update] Blogging for Choice on 36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
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UPDATE: This morning, a man in an SUV smashed through the front of the Planned Parenthood office in St. Paul, MN. According to the AP:
The building was struck at 7:30 a.m. Several employees were in the building at the time, said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Kathi Di Nicola. The clinic’s front door and surrounding stonework suffered minor damage.
She said when she arrived at the clinic, the man had gotten out of the SUV and was pacing around it, holding a crucifix and chanting.
“He was agitated and he was saying, ‘Shut down this Auschwitz,’” she said.
Another report with video says:
A 32-year-old man told St. Paul Police he intentionally drove his SUV into the front door of the Planned Parenthood at 1965 Ford Parkway in St. Paul around 7:30 a.m., according to a KARE11 report.
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The tape shows the man driving his SUV down the sidewalk and clipping a retaining wall before steering into the front door of the clinic. He then backed up, and rammed it again. The driver got out of his vehicle and began waving a crucifix. He surrendered to police when they arrived.
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And I mean that in terms of whether you support or oppose the results of Roe.
You can read the decision itself here or read a nice breakdown at About.com.
For the record, I support the constitutional rights recognized in the U.S. Supreme Court decision which made a woman’s medical decision regarding her reproductive rights legal and I am against the erosion of those rights.
I do, however, support efforts to curtail unwanted pregnancy through means that do not impinge on a girl or woman’s reproductive rights. I absolutely support laws such as this one, just passed in Ohio, that provide assistance to girls and women who carry children to term but choose to give up permanent custody through adoption:
Now comes word that Guv Ted has signed Sub. HB 7, the Adoption Reform Act. The new law allows birth mothers to receive up to $3,000 from adoptive parents for living expenses incurred during the pregnancy and 60 days post-birth.
Great idea and it costs taxpayers nothing. Providing practical incentives for young women to continue their pregnancies is the way to go.
Sponsor of this bill, outgoing state Rep. Tom Brinkman of the 34th district, is one of those aforementioned pro-life legislators. In 2005, he proposed banning nearly all abortions in Ohio and was met with a snearing, hissing overflow crowd in the Statehouse Atrium.
Other good readings on what’s happening around the country today related to this anniversary:
Planned Parenthood’s Commemorating 36 Years of Roe v. Wade
On Roe v. Wade’s Anniversary, Obama to Begin Mopping Up Bush’s Misogynistic Mess
Join a live-blog from 3-4pm today about Roe that will be hosted by former President of the national Planned Parenthood organization, Gloria Feldt, and current President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Sarah Stoesz.
You can read two recent posts by Feldt about the importance and impact of reproductive rights here:
Beyond Roe: Toward Human Rights for Women
Trading in Barefoor and Pregnant for Economic and Reproductive Justice
I don’t monitor anti-choice efforts, but here is the National Right to Life website and here is a link to information for today’s March for Life.
Update:
I’ll add more items if I find them, like this:
US abortion debate altered by Obama presidency
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:44 am January 22nd, 2009 in Abortion, activism, Blogging, Civil Rights, Congress, Courts, democracy, Government, Health Care, leadership, Politics, Sexism, Social Issues, Statehouse, Whitehouse09, Women | Comments Off
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Read it here.
An excerpt:
Assimilation is already a fact of life in Israel. There are more than one million Muslim Arabs in Israel; they possess Israeli nationality and take part in political life with the Jews, forming political parties. On the other side, there are Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli factories depend on Palestinian labor, and goods and services are exchanged. This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine.
If the present interdependence and the historical fact of Jewish-Palestinian coexistence guide their leaders, and if they can see beyond the horizon of the recent violence and thirst for revenge toward a long-term solution, then these two peoples will come to realize, I hope sooner rather than later, that living under one roof is the only option for a lasting peace.
Now – who has been urging, since this most recent conflict began, that people own up to what solution they want, why and how it would be implemented and function?
And pointing people to articles like this one about how Israel squanders the possibilities it has in the Israeli Arab popultion?
Could that really be, be influenced by the fact that one of my most bestest friends of 26 years lived in Libya for several years growing up?
That would just be beyond b’sheret.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:32 am January 22nd, 2009 in Gaza, Israel | Comments Off
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