Blue Herald

The people who come up with ideas like this remind me of flies. Why? Because, as irrelevant as flies are, they have a way of getting in your face and annoying the hell out of you. It’s the whole reason for their existence. The only difference I see between the two is that flies are [...]

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 Anyone from Colorado reading……you might want to act on this. You can read more about this amendment here. From an email I received from ProgressNowAction:
Sad to say, but it’s official. Amendment 48, the so-called “Personhood Amendment“, will be on the November ballot in Colorado.

This may sound crazy, because it did to us when we first [...]

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A number of bloggers participated in “Blog for Choice Day 2008″ on 1/22/08 to celebrate Roe v. Wade’s 35th Anniversary (I’m a bit late). Via Shark-Fu, here’s a long list of participating bloggers, and here’s Salon’s “Roe, 35 years later,” featuring reflections from several feminists.
Melissa McEwan adds a few thoughts and passes on John [...]

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The new face of the antiabortion movement: Post-Abortion Syndrome–for men.
Pity the Man
Pity the man who conceived four babies with four women and suffered anxiety attacks and nightmares after all four, with his consent, were aborted. Pity the man who saw his soon-to-be-born baby on an ultrasound and instantly came to believe that he “had killed [...]

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Abortions performed in the United States have dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, numbers not seen since 1976. And people from both sides of the issue are taking credit.
Guttmacher Institute’s, Rachel K. Jones, says, “It could be more women using contraception and not having as many unintended pregnancies. It could be more restrictions on abortions [...]

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Looks like this 20-year-old law student is trying to make a name for herself.
If it weren’t for their utter hypocrisy and complete lack of sympathy and understanding for a woman that’s considering abortion, I wouldn’t be as sickened by the anti-women’s rights crowd. Just once I’d like to see in the news where someone that [...]

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In June, Thompson called for “federal courts doing what they are suppose to do, not somebody else’s job; not as social arbitrators of this nation.”
I agree whole-heartedly with the above statement. So why does Fred Thompson and the entire Christian-right want to install judges that are all too happy to stick their noses in where [...]

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First of all, in these impromptu ‘interviews’ you did not include or obtain the response from Joseph Scheidler, the founder and president of the Pro Life Action League (prolifeaction. o r g). My answer to your question is “There SHOULD be a penalty for the woman if abortion were made ILLEGAL AGAIN. The penalty could [...]

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By LINDA GREENHOUSE
from The New York Times
Whatever else may be said about the Supreme Court’s current term, which ends in about a month, it will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it.
Both in the abortion case the court decided last month and the discrimination ruling it [...]

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That title would make you think of a group of people, probably led by Cindy Sheehan, camped out in front of the White House trying to bring an end to this senseless war.
Nope. The “pro-death except before birth” crowd are at it again.

Pro-Lifers Ready to Kick-Off Rallies for Life
WASHINGTON - Pro-lifers across the nation are [...]

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