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That time 12 News Phoenix helped anti-choicers stalk an abortion clinic and their patient

Posted on April 26, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | Comments Off

Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com, and with a special note to my friends here who act like this is all a rhetorical exercise: This shit is real. Anti-choicers have succeeded in criminalizing pregnancy and in enlisting news stations to help them in that. This could be you or someone you care about next.

Nothing inflammatory here!

Last month there was a big buzz in the local anti-choice rumor mill about a “born alive abortion” that had allegedly occurred at a Phoenix clinic. I reported on the absurdity of the whole allegation at that time and how the MSM ought not allow themselves to be played by wild-eyed anti-abortion zealots. But, apparently, Channel 12 in Phoenix sees a real public interest in helping those zealots to harass abortion providers and in giving out potentially identifying information about a patient (her age), as they did on the Thursday 10pm broadcast.

The police reports shows the mother, 27, had been scheduled for an abortion, but went into what the report called, “spontaneous labor.” The doctor at the clinic near downtown Phoenix told police she had checked for a fetal heartbeat before the procedure and found none. She said she believed the baby would be stillborn. Continue reading →

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Tagged abortion, anti-choicers, channel 12 phoenix, conspiracy theories

In which I (sigh) have to give Bob Lord a Pro-Choice 101 lecture

Posted on April 22, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | 5 comments

I discovered this April 9th post of Bob Lord’s as I was searching for another one and decided to read it, though I’ve been avoiding his stuff as a general rule while the primary is still going on. I’ve also decided to make what began as a comment into a full post.

Bob, as you know, I’m the person you quoted here:

I personally could not care less what a male religious leader who believes women are walking baby machines thinks about our Presidential election but I can understand why either candidate would seek his favor.

This apparently inspired your tirade lambasting those of us who weren’t impressed by Bernie Sanders’ recent Pope-stalking junket and whom you believe to place too much importance on “abortion” as a campaign issue. Well, as someone who pays careful attention to what you still (despite “representing Planned Parenthood”) deem to be a trivial little ladies side issue that can, and must, be jettisoned whenever More Important™ issues (IOW those that affect men) are on the table, allow me to explain: Continue reading →

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Posted in Abortion, Bob Lord, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Debates, Donna Gratehouse, Gender Equality, GOP War On..., Healthcare, President, Primaries

Tagged abortion, pope

“Nice” John Kasich has not-so-nice things to say about rape

Posted on April 15, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | 1 comment

Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com

This is @JohnKasich's entire answer to a female student who asked about "sexual violence, harassment, and rape" pic.twitter.com/cQOgpubrPv

— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) April 15, 2016

There are so many things wrong with what GOP Presidential candidate John Kasich said here that it’s hard to know where to start. Continue reading →

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Posted in Abortion, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Commentary, Crime, Donna Gratehouse, Elections, Gender Equality, GOP War On..., Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Party Politics, President, Primaries

Tagged abortion, John Kasich, rape

That one comment that makes it all clear

Posted on April 12, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | 2 comments

Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com

This guy.

The competition for Worst GOP Arizona Legislator Ever is stiff these days, given Rep. David Gowan’s not-smart snit toward reporters having the temerity to *gasp* report on things he’s doing. That’s pretty bad but, purely on the basis of shocking callousness, I’m going to have to go with Senate President Andy Biggs (pictured), who is currently running for Congress, while refusing to consider a bill that would provide health care to 30,000 Arizona children from low income families.

EJ Montini finds it to be pretty appalling:

Since the beginning of the legislative session Senate President Andy Biggs — who won a $10 million Publishers Clearing House prize a few years back – has refused to give Arizona’s hard-luck poor kids the health care they deserve. Continue reading →

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Posted in Abortion, Arizona State Legislature, Budgets, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Commentary, Congress, Donna Gratehouse, Economics, Editorial, Elections, Gender Equality, GOP War On..., Governor, Healthcare, Legislation, Maricopa, Primaries, Racism, Taxes

Tagged abortion, andy biggs, ej montini, kids care

Cathi Herrod’s outrage over the FDA is yet another exposition of the narcissism, authoritarianism at the heart of the anti-choice movement

Posted on April 5, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | Comments Off

What, you thought it was about “saving babies”?

Thanks to the 1992 Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v Casey, that made a “mess” of jurisprudence around abortion, GOP-led states have had largely free reign to pass intrusive restrictions on women’s health care under the guise of “health and safety”. While these laws are sometimes blocked by courts, anti-choicers continue to revive them, wasting millions of dollars in the process, in the hopes of exhausting opponents and/or getting more favorable court decisions as Republicans continue to stack the nation’s courts with ideologically friendly judges.

One such law was Arizona’s requirement that abortion doctors use outdated FDA protocol in dispensing abortion pills. The original label from 2000 recommended use of the pills only until the seventh week of pregnancy. But FDA guidelines are not laws and physicians commonly experiment with different levels and uses of medication to do what’s best for their patients. This is typical with many types of medications, not just for abortion. Arizona anti-choicers first tried to override the judgment of doctors on medication abortion in 2012, but were thwarted in court. This year, under Governor Doug Ducey, who is arguably even more anti-choice than his predecessor Jan Brewer, they brought it back as SB1324, which Ducey signed last week. Continue reading →

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Tagged abortion, cathi herrod, center for arizona policy, medication abortion, RU486

Anti-choice leaders are lying as part of “strategy”. Believe that.

Posted on April 2, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie | Comments Off

More like Lie Site

This Life Site News article I linked to yesterday continues to get comments (more than a hundred now) and most of them express vehement opposition to the article’s thesis that the anti-abortion movement is not interested in prosecuting women. It appears that plenty of loyal readers of the site very much want to punish women and are offended by the suggestion that they don’t.

Here’s one comment, among the many, from an irate rank-and-file anti-choicer who bristles at the notion of letting women who murder their unborn children (in her opinion) escape from criminal liability:

All these many years I have considered myself pro-life, only now to be told by professional pro-lifers that I am most definitely not. How disappointing…

I’m sure somewhere in 126 comments it has already been said, but I do not understand this view that all women seeking abortion are ‘victims’. As a woman, I find this highly insulting. Certainly some women are coerced and threatened into procuring abortion, especially very young women and this must be taken into account, (and punish the one guilty of coercing her to the fullest extent!) but far too many women merely use abortion as birth control, many of them guilty of multiple abortions. I reject the claim that these women bear no responsibility for the murder of their own offspring. Factor in the advent of ultrasound and internet and it is even hard to give the benefit of the doubt that they are truly ignorant of the life growing within them not being merely a ‘clump of cells’. (The main reason PP hates ultrasound requirements and informed consent laws) Even Dorito’s commercials erode the chance of ignorance! They almost certainly know that it is a human life that they are taking, or are willfully ignorant. Continue reading →