I'm as annoyed with Clinton as many folk...

But this whole Clinton/Kentucky Derby crap is pissing me off...

And you told yourself they'd stop at abortion

But of course they won't. Now we have this nonsense from a group of people determined to return to forced pregnancy, The Pill Kills:

June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today.

On that day in 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Griswold v. Connecticut case, it set a legal precedent for claiming that the Constitution grants women the right to privacy in matters of sexual practice. This meant that Connecticut and the rest of the United States could not stop a married woman from obtaining birth control pills. However, as Judge Andrew Napolitano has pointed out, the constitutional right to privacy has nothing to do with birth control.

I'm probably one of the youngest people who remember what it's like to walk in on Mom with a tear-stained face and a forced smile as she announced that I was to have yet another younger sibling. It's not something one forgets.

Anyhow, for an explanation as to why neither the pill nor the morning after pill kill anything, I recommend one of everyone's favorite scientists, PZ Myers.

All your uteri are belong to us, Friday edition

The legislators of Oklahoma are at it again, this time passing a law (by overturning a veto by the governor) that requires that every woman seeking to exercise her constitutionally protected right to end her pregnancy must undergo an ultrasound. Not just any ultrasound, but the one that gives the best image of the fetus:

Under the guise of obtaining informed patient consent, this new law requires doctors to withhold pregnancy termination until an ultrasound is performed. The law states that either an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound, whichever gives the best image of the fetus, must be done. Neither the patient nor the doctor can decide which type of ultrasound to use, and the patient cannot opt out of the ultrasound and still have the procedure. In effect, then, the legislature has mandated that a woman have an instrument placed in her vagina for no medical benefit. The law makes no exception for victims of rape and incest.

Now, because vaginal ultrasounds produce better pictures than abdominal ultrasounds in the early stages of pregnancy, this law would often require women to have additional medical instruments put inside them against their wishes. This is what the procedure entails:



So, yeah, the Oklahoma legislature demands that you be raped by their designated machine before you get to control your own reproductive functions.

Things I don't understand

Why does this get people up at arms...


but this is A-OK?

Norm Coleman did the right thing

Here.

Update: Too bad John McCain didn't:

"I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems," the expected GOP presidential nominee told reporters. "This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system."

Let's be clear here. The proposed legislation simply restores an interpretation of the application of the statute of limitations period (already set at a disgustingly short six months)for equal pay claims that courts have been using since the Supreme Court's Bazemore v. Friday decision in 1986. The defeated law simply goes back to what had been settled precedent before the Ledbetter decision.

Not my sport, but this is cool.

"I've been asked so many times when and if I can win my first race," ... "And, finally, no more of those questions" -Danica Patrick



They made her carry ten extra pounds, and she still won.

Ugh. Just Ugh.

There are some things that all people, both pro-life and pro-choice can agree is wrong.

This is one of them.

Updated: Not real, I guess? Not often I learn something from anti-strib.