RedHead Confetti

Warning: This blog is ranty, it contains sarcasm, anger and profanity. It discusses abortion rights. If you can't handle that, this one isn't for you. So, I’ve been thinking about this for a few weeks now. It started with the Ohio and Missouri heart-beat bills, compounded with the travesty coming out of Alabama, and came to a boil with Georgia’s “Hold my beer” bill. Each of these, and mind you this isn’t all of them, are bills that specifically ban abortion care. Each of these is couched as a way to “protect babies”, but treats women like an afterthought—if they think of us, at all! We have been reduced to incubators, to hosts, to objects. And to say I’m angry, or pissed, is probably the understatement of the century. [NB: You can see an article here , discussing all abortion bills that have passed, or are being taken up, on state level. Not all of them ban it. Some actually protect it. For your edification.] I read “The Handmaid’s Tale” when I was a kid. I had t...

Did you know that there is a huge problem in the US with women waiting until the last trimester to abort pregnancies based on the sex and/or race of the foetus? Did you know that? Well if you said yes, then  you have probably seen the artfully edited videos that Lila Rose and Live Action put out, proving it. She wants you to know that not only does she want women to have their abortions in the public square [ nope, not a joke ] and that sex is supposed to be only for the sacred act of child bearing in a marriage-- without birth control [ nope, not a joke, either ], she will show you the hypocrisy of the women's rights movement and how our support for abortions means that we're willing to sacrifice female foetuses-- because she decided so-called "gender-cide" is a big deal here. It isn't. [If you think Lila Rose is a truth-teller, I ask you, respectfully, to send me the information debunking PP and Media Matters, and various other groups that have investigat...

**Edited to add a link to SGK corporate sponsors.** For many years I have had a small list of "pet charities".; you know, groups and charities I send money to every year. Even if I can only send 5 or 10 bucks each, every one of them got a money order, a cheque or an online debit payment. I never made a big deal out of it-- I mean, who does, right? You send in your pennies, and I send in my pennies, and soon our pennies add up to dollars that can really help. At least, that's the idea. Monday, the 20th of January the Susan G Komen Foundation * announced they would no longer partner with Planned Parenthood in order to help provide breast cancer screenings to poor and uninsured women. They claim it's not about abortion, per se but because they did some rule clean up, and now, suddenly, can't possibly give money or grants to groups that are <gasp> under investigation! Anyone with eyeballs knows the so-called investigations are vendettas against PP and...