Deconstructing Elaine
Planet Jackson Hole, Oct 8, 2008."Interruption during the first trimester of a first pregnancy causes a cessation of cell differentiation..."Well, yeah.If a pregnancy ends, the body will respond...
View ArticleA ramble after a long absence
Hi everyone. It's Mary W. aka Meg D. writing here. Sorry for my embarrassingly long absence from blogging. Life has been chaotic, but I won't bore you with details. Besides, what's far more interesting...
View ArticleSarah Palin: the anti-intellectual boor
Can I just say how tired I am of her? The more we learn the more frightening she is. Recently she criticized government funding for fruit fly research as wasteful and went on to comment that some fruit...
View ArticleTo Scan or not to Scan
I'm linking to this new article on The Slate by William Saletan talking about ultrasounds, birth defects and abortion. In the article, he discusses the conundrum facing pro-lifers regarding the...
View ArticleVote!
Hey Jacksonites! Maybe you knew this already but we can vote early in Wyoming. We don't have to wait for next Tuesday. So if for any reason you think your Tuesday schedule will be too busy or hectic to...
View ArticleYour tax dollars promoting "absitence until marriage"
This just in from Feminist Daily News Wire:"Healthy Marriage" Funds Improperly Used to Promote Abstinence A report issued on October 27 by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that some...
View ArticleNatalie at the Obama acceptance speech
Check out this great blog post from Natalie Balthrop, from Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary, who attended Obama's acceptance speech in Chicago! .
View ArticleKeith Olbermann Defends Gay Marriage - and brings tears to this blogger's eyes
More straight men should stand up for gay marriage rights the way MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann did last night.
View Articlecool quote
The people who dream are very often the people who see,and dreaming and seeing precede doing.-Margaret E. SangsterMargaret E. Sangster was an American author and editor during the 19th century. She is...
View ArticleArticle 13
A priest in South Carolina has told his parishioners that they should not take communion if they voted for Barack Obama unless they confess their sin of cooperating with "intrinsic evil". No joke. The...
View ArticleThought provoking message
Rugged individualism, a cherished value in American society, can cloud our vision, causing us to forget that leaders ultimately serve others.-Delorese AmbroseI really like this quote. I feel like our...
View ArticleMoving Toward the New Year
As I reflect on 2008, I am feeling compelled to ask myself how I have touched other lives in my behavior this year. I always generate personal goals for the upcoming year and would like my objectives...
View ArticleAnother nice thought
Finding ourselves takes time. It ishard work and it is worth doing.- Anne Wilson SchaefAnne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D., is the author of Women's Reality and Co-Dependence. She is a lecturer, organizational...
View ArticleWarm Idea
If the world seems cold to you,Kindle fires to warm it!-Lucy LarcomLucy Larcom was an American poet born in Boston in 1824. She died in 1893. She was the ninth of ten children and worked in a cotton...
View ArticleChange we need!
It looks like President-Elect Obama (just a few more hours!) will act quickly to reverse the Bush's administration's global war on family planning. To me, this is a good sign of things to come..
View ArticleWhat he said.
President Obama yesterday issued a statement on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, reiterating his support for abortion rights, but also saying he is interested in abortion reduction. The statement:"On...
View ArticleObama signs bill extending statutory limitation period to file lawsuit for...
More good news on the equality front. And three cheers for Lilly Ledbetter! .
View ArticleRight to Life ad - Planet Jackson Hole 2.04.09
“… I honestly think of your advertisement each day before I open the Jackson Hole paper. It is difficult because I am reminded of the abortion I had over 40 years ago. I think your readers should know...
View ArticleRep. Sue Wallis rocks.
A Wyoming House of Representatives bill that would have required doctors to offer an ultrasound to any woman seeking an abortion has been defeated in...
View ArticleGet Well Soon Ruth!
I found this nice NYT piece about Justice Ginsburg's increasing dissatisfaction with the direction the Supreme Court has taken over the past few years. Let's hope she has a full and speedy recovery...
View ArticleV-Day Jackson 2009
This coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday Jackson Community Theater presents "V-Day Jackson 2009", three evenings of playwright Eve Ensler's works. Thursday's performance is "A Memory, A Monologue, A...
View ArticleReally? with Emma (apologies to Seth)
Really, Archbishop Sobrinho? God wants a nine year old girl to carry to term a pregnancy caused by rape at the hands of her stepfather? Really? When she's too small to even carry twins to term and...
View ArticleSharia law and tweens getting married
To me, the most astounding part of this story about a mother trying to arrange an annulment for her eight-year old daughter is the quote from the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia: "A girl aged 10 or 12 can...
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