2011 marked a banner year in the Republican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the GOP-led House led a “comprehensive and radical assault” on a federal level. But in surveying their arsenal this year, 10 bills stood out as particularly perturbing and far-reaching efforts to stymie women’s [...]
The GOP’s 10 Most Extreme Attacks On A Woman’s Right To Choose An Abortion
December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Scott Walker’s Next Target: Cancer Screenings for Women
December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
First he gutted worker’s rights, then slashed state education funding and dumbed-down sex ed. Next on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s hit list? Breast and cervical cancer screenings for women. Come January 1, Wisconsinites who rely on Planned Parenthood to access free cancer screenings may be out of luck. Read full article here.
Calorie-Restricted Diet can Stop Brains from Aging
December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to Italian scientists, eating less may help keep your mind young. Scientists have discovered the molecular process by which a strict diet may save the brain from the aging process. The research, published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on a study of mice that were [...]
Watch Out for the “Reframe the Debate” PR Tactic
April 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Health insurers and their allies began a coordinated campaign to ensure that the health care reform law is implemented in ways that will benefit them way more than policy holders. Their front group has an innocent enough sounding name — Choice and Competition Coalition (CCC). Who wouldn’t want choice and competition when it comes to [...]
SWAT Team Assaults a Mom Who Refused to Give Her Daughter Antipsychotic Drugs
April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with a heavily armed police SWAT team. Godboldo was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication ordered by the state. Child Protective Services (CPS) called in the police to aid in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old [...]
Abortion and the Risk of Breast Cancer
April 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
In a word; No. That myth has circulated for years by the Pro-Life camp. It is simply not true, and that’s not my personal opinion. Anti-abortion groups are the only ones actually telling women to avoid abortion as a means of protecting against breast cancer. That fact that there is no link between abortion and [...]
Incorporate My Uterus!
April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you incorporate your uterus, do you get to write it off on your income taxes? How many years do you get to depreciate it?? Of course, you can’t legally Incorporate Your Uterus, but you can online. And by doing so, you can send a message to the Florida Legislature that less regulation and government [...]
