Category Archives: Blastocyst Liberation

How to Permanently Alienate Millions and Millions of American Women

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

No, this is not the Mad Biologist’s guide to dating. It’s about the continual attempt by conservatives to mandate transvaginal probes for women who want to get an abortion. While transvaginal probles do have a legitimate medical role in abortions, … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic Human Decency, Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives | 1 Comment

Why Conservatives Can’t Stop Talking About Rape: Because It’s the New Rubella

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

So it appears that, just as the furor over Todd Akin’s magical vaginas has died down (he was the Republican who claimed that rape victm’s vaginas have ways to “shut down” pregnancy), they seem to have gone full-bore stupid again: … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Microbiology, Rape, Vaccination | 3 Comments

One Alabama Republican Didn’t Get the Memo About ‘Fetus = Person’

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

After years of being told that fetuses are people by the forced pregnancy crowd, we now have this utterance from the Great State of Alabama (boldface mine): Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R-of course), who is sponsoring a bill … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Bullshit As a Load Bearing Structure, Conservatives, Fucking Morons | 2 Comments

Our Surreal Abortion Debate

Posted on November 2, 2012 by

One of the truly bizarre things about the recent focus of the abortion debate on the ‘rape exception’ is rape is not even close to a minor reason for abortion. That’s not to say that the Republican position on rape … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Public Health | 2 Comments

President Obama Needs to Take Lessons From Elizabeth Warren

Posted on October 13, 2012 by

Cuz Warren speaks real good (boldface mine): I have no doubt Sen Brown is a good husband and a good father to his daughters, but this is an issue that affects ALL of our daughters and our granddaughters. And what … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Democrats, Feminism | 1 Comment

The ‘Judeo-Christian’ Tradition: The Anti-Abortion-Wailing Wall Edition

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

Once again, we witness the ridiculous spectacle of the theopolitical right twisting Judaism to its own devices, this time in the service of anti-abortionism: Plans for a full-size replica of the Western Wall in Jerusalem are being drawn up in … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Jewish Stuff | 2 Comments

One Very Interesting Finding About U.S. Jews (and Some Others That Aren’t So Shocking)

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

The Public Religion Research Institute recently released a survey, “Jewish Values in 2012” (note: if you’re not a regular reader, I’m Jewish). I’ll get to that in a minute, but this, from an article in The Forward about the survey, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Democrats, Jewish Stuff

Martin Luther King on Planned Parenthood

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

One of the most idiotic tropes from the theocratic right is how they claim that they are following in the footsteps of the civil rights movement. Well, here’s what Martin Luther King had to say about family planning, contraception, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Public Health

Why Is There Less Hassle to Opt Out of Vaccination Than to Get a Safe and Legal Abortion?

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

There has been a spate of bills, introduced by conservatives, designed to make getting abortions more difficult. One feature of these bill is that healthcare providers are forced to tell women about the consequences of the abortion (and, in some … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Vaccination

As Long As Women Have Been Getting Pregnant…

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

…they have been getting ‘unpregnant.’ From a recent Frank Bruni op-ed (boldface mine): He has thought a lot about how customs, laws and religion do and don’t jibe with women’s actions and autonomy. “In all centuries, through all history, women … Continue reading →

Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Civil Liberties, Public Health | 1 Comment