Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the law the secures a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. I am prochoice, and support any woman's access to a safe abortion. It is not genocide, it is not murder, it is not irresponsible.More broadly, I support the conditions of reproductive justice, of which the right to abortion is a part, but not the sum total. Reproductive justice recognizes:
Today is the MLK holiday. I feel like I should be doing something especially honorable; instead, I am sitting at home, nursing a good cup of coffee in my pajamas at noon. It is bright, sunny, and cold outside: perfect conditions for a solitary and contemplative walk around a pond or a beautiful body of water. Reflection and reflexive, that's what we need. Yesterday, I watched as the water
FoxAtttacks.comBill O'Reilly, in his infinite stupidity, insulted the 200,000 homeless veterans living on America's streets. Got to that link and tell that tool he owes these men and women an apology.
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I'm up a little late, watching a Nightline segment on violence in urban areas, how it's worse than it's been in a very long time. The segment is of the ER in Philadelphia at UPenn, where there were 300 + murders in 2007 from the gun violence. The reporter is inteviewing two ER doctors, one of them talking about repeat trauma victims who end up in the ER multiple times over a stretch: the first
