Numbers Worth Noting

In the 2009 state legislative session alone, 23 bills restricting abortion were introduced in Texas and 18 were introduced in Mississippi.
The number of abortion providers in the United States fell by 25% just between 1992 and 2005.
North Dakota and Mississippi, have only a single abortion provider.  Nationwide, 87 percent of counties in the country lack [...]

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On the ballot: Proposition 4

There you go again. Proposition 4, on the ballot this November in California, would require doctors to notify the parents of teenagers looking to get abortions. It’s basically the same as propositions voted down in 2005 and 2006 (Prop 73 and Prop 85, respectively). This time around, the law’s branded as “Sarah’s Law.” According to [...]

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Keeping It Safe

When not trying to handle a variety of personal tasks here, I spent a little time recently checking in with Louise Melling of the ACLU (who is interviewed here about abstinence education in the sexual backwaters of Albuquerque, New Mexico). It’s easy to get swept up in prostitution scandals (why exactly is this not only [...]

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Losing it

The market? It’s tanking, evidently in part because of miserable job reports, bad housing starts, GIGANTIC losses in the financial sector, and general malaise. We knew this was coming, people. All this time – months of “almost recession, almost recession,”- and now it’s here, like the crippling balloon payment on your car you thought (reasonably) [...]

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Personhood

Henry Hyde died last week. But the Hyde Amendment? That’s still alive and kicking. Guess Mark Antony was right – the evil that people do does live after them. But to get to do evil, you’ve got to be a person first. This is where some of the good people of Colorado might be willing [...]

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