How was your weekend?
Sep. 14th, 2008 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiI'm trying to mesh everything into one post...
But first - if you're not interested in the political issues, check out the Palin Baby Name Generator - my name would be Trinket, it seems. Which I don't dislike.
1. Did you see Sarah Palin in her Tina Fey glasses on SNL last night? Note-perfect and full of amazing soundbites. It's up on Hulu if you missed it last night.
2. Speaking of video clips, the "Not Worth the Risk" one that I've been working on over the last two weeks is up on YouTube and DailyKos and - please pass it around!
I've talked to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mijan about doing a second one, if anyone is interested in participating. We didn't manage to get stem cell research, same-sex marriage, the fact that she calls people who've disagreed with her haters, rape kit coverage, or anything about her utter lack of knowledge of international relations and diplomacy into this one, so if you're interested in participating in a second one, let me know.
3. Speaking of the rape kit issue, it hasn't been covered much by the mainstream media, but the gist of it is, Palin and her chief of police in Wasila billed sexual assault victims for the cost of the rape kit used to collect evidence when they reported the crime. No, they didn't also charge burglary victims for fingerprintings, or battery victims for the cost of photographing their injuries. Just rape victims. Just rape kits.
The quirky thing is, states and municipalities are required to absorb/cover the cost of rape kits because of an important provision in the Violence Against Women Act, which was shepparded through Congress in 1994 by Joe Biden.
Oh, and McCain voted against it at the time. He's also voted against Equal Pay for Equal Work legislation. Dude.
So when Wasila continued charging victims, Alaska's governor pushed passage of a statute that mandated municipalities not charge victims for the rape kit costs, and at that point, they stopped.
Rape kits include the Morning After pill, which prevents conception (that's the implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterine wall). Sarah Palin seems to believe that this is the same thing as an abortion, and as she does not believe in women being able to choose to have an abortion even after being raped, she did not want taxpayers to pay for such things.
The thing is, the Morning After pill does not cause an abortion when used properly. As the Mayo Clinic writes, "Progestin prevents the sperm from reaching the egg and keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus (implantation). Estrogen stops the ovaries from releasing eggs (ovulation) that can be fertilized by sperm."
If you think life begins at conception, then something that blocks implantation does *not* cause an abortion because conception hasn't yet happened. And blocking the ovaries from releasing eggs is also pre-conception!
So her whole thing about wanting women to carry to term even if the pregnancy results from rape or incest? She put that into practice by obligating women to pay for the rape kit that contained something that would prevent conception.
Perhaps this means that she doesn't think life begins at conception but instead she thinks it begins at fertalization! To me, that's meshing church and state because my religion's theology holds that life begins at quickening, and an embryo or a blastocyst is not a living entity.
Anyway, if you think that a woman who's been the victim of rape should be allowed an abortion in the first days of pregnancy, then you have to have a problem with her refusal to comply with the Violence Against Women Act.
4. I ordered some campaign signs and buttons from the Obama website but I got an email yesterday saying that some things were on backorder. Does anyone have recs for any un-"official" storefronts on cafepress or elsewhere that will use any profits from their yard-sign and button-sales for good causes, so I can order from them until the Official stuff arrives?
But first - if you're not interested in the political issues, check out the Palin Baby Name Generator - my name would be Trinket, it seems. Which I don't dislike.
1. Did you see Sarah Palin in her Tina Fey glasses on SNL last night? Note-perfect and full of amazing soundbites. It's up on Hulu if you missed it last night.
2. Speaking of video clips, the "Not Worth the Risk" one that I've been working on over the last two weeks is up on YouTube and DailyKos and - please pass it around!
I've talked to
mijan about doing a second one, if anyone is interested in participating. We didn't manage to get stem cell research, same-sex marriage, the fact that she calls people who've disagreed with her haters, rape kit coverage, or anything about her utter lack of knowledge of international relations and diplomacy into this one, so if you're interested in participating in a second one, let me know. 3. Speaking of the rape kit issue, it hasn't been covered much by the mainstream media, but the gist of it is, Palin and her chief of police in Wasila billed sexual assault victims for the cost of the rape kit used to collect evidence when they reported the crime. No, they didn't also charge burglary victims for fingerprintings, or battery victims for the cost of photographing their injuries. Just rape victims. Just rape kits.
The quirky thing is, states and municipalities are required to absorb/cover the cost of rape kits because of an important provision in the Violence Against Women Act, which was shepparded through Congress in 1994 by Joe Biden.
Oh, and McCain voted against it at the time. He's also voted against Equal Pay for Equal Work legislation. Dude.
So when Wasila continued charging victims, Alaska's governor pushed passage of a statute that mandated municipalities not charge victims for the rape kit costs, and at that point, they stopped.
Rape kits include the Morning After pill, which prevents conception (that's the implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterine wall). Sarah Palin seems to believe that this is the same thing as an abortion, and as she does not believe in women being able to choose to have an abortion even after being raped, she did not want taxpayers to pay for such things.
The thing is, the Morning After pill does not cause an abortion when used properly. As the Mayo Clinic writes, "Progestin prevents the sperm from reaching the egg and keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus (implantation). Estrogen stops the ovaries from releasing eggs (ovulation) that can be fertilized by sperm."
If you think life begins at conception, then something that blocks implantation does *not* cause an abortion because conception hasn't yet happened. And blocking the ovaries from releasing eggs is also pre-conception!
So her whole thing about wanting women to carry to term even if the pregnancy results from rape or incest? She put that into practice by obligating women to pay for the rape kit that contained something that would prevent conception.
Perhaps this means that she doesn't think life begins at conception but instead she thinks it begins at fertalization! To me, that's meshing church and state because my religion's theology holds that life begins at quickening, and an embryo or a blastocyst is not a living entity.
Anyway, if you think that a woman who's been the victim of rape should be allowed an abortion in the first days of pregnancy, then you have to have a problem with her refusal to comply with the Violence Against Women Act.
4. I ordered some campaign signs and buttons from the Obama website but I got an email yesterday saying that some things were on backorder. Does anyone have recs for any un-"official" storefronts on cafepress or elsewhere that will use any profits from their yard-sign and button-sales for good causes, so I can order from them until the Official stuff arrives?
