Date: 2009-10-18 22:47 Subject: so angry, words cannot express... Security: Public Tags: citizen's rights and responsibilities, economics, ethics, law, politics, women's personhood

So, rape of one employee by several other employees is not crime, but a dispute between employees?

Oh, hell no.

*vastly ashamed of Senate, of companies purporting to represent American business interests, and of people the age of my children who should know better. Maybe they don't want better, but they should know better.*

ETA credit to tammy212 whose post here alerted me to the background of all this. *still and forever outraged*

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Date: 2009-10-04 02:37 Subject: everything i like about thoughtful meta, right here, right now Security: Public Tags: fandom, meta, movies, star trek, women's personhood, writing

http://taraljc.livejournal.com/1366255.html

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Date: 2008-09-20 23:49 Subject: PEDTM 20 Security: Public Tags: citizen rights and responsibilities, economics, history, pedtm, politics, uni, women's personhood

So the deadline for the HHS resolution about changing access to birth control/abortion by changing the rules re: requiring providers to prescribe/dispense comes up on September 25th. That means there are only a few more days to contact your Congress or Senate people, or contact Health and Human Services yourself, and make your point of view known.

I don't really care for having the government- any government, be it local, state, or federal- in my business. I'd much rather practices affecting the common health be made by the commonwealth- by the educated, practiced judgment of my fellow citizens and peers.

But this decision relates to collected, pooled tax money that is used to pay for and support our collective, pooled health- and it's being proposed without the kind of large-scale, in-depth, educated national conversation that I feel is crucial to maintaining a healthy nation.

Maybe it's true. Maybe abstinence is the best method of birth control, taking into account physical, emotional, and spiritual health of all concerned. Then in that case, isn't the conversation about why everyone- everyone- should be practicing abstinence if they're not up for supporting and raising (well) the child of any act of intercourse that leads to conception?

I can never quite get my thoughts to go in a straight enough line to have this all make sense in a post- but I do feel it's a hugely important subject, one that gets a lot of inflammatory energy thrown at it but not much deep, reasoned, compassionate thought.

Which, now, I'm going to go and try to give it more of, while I do my coursework for Native American Studies (in which I finally nail down the shameful role of some Quakers in the destruction of Native American family life through boarding schools, and find my shame is not deep enough, yet, to help me formulate some action that can, in some way, help me try to put things right at this late hour).

Blessings on your heads.

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