A Call to Birmingham

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Saturday July 07, 2007 · 2:40 PM PDT

2007/07/07 · 14:40

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I got an e-mail from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice last night asking me to come to Birmingham next week. Six years ago the ask came in snail mail and the request was to go to Wichita. I'm not sure what possessed me to do it, but I went. It was a transformative experience.

While the extreme right wing nuts have done a pretty good job taking over the courts, shutting down comprehensive health services for women, intimidating doctors, nurses and nurse-midwives, there remains a loyal core of committed people who support a woman's right to make her own choices about her reproductive fate. When and whether a woman (or girl) is to have a child should not be decided by any church or any government. But there is quite a cadre of authoritarian soldiers who are intent on foisting their own "moral" strictures on all of the rest of us. And those authoritarian soldiers are being deployed in Birmingham to try to shut down the women's clinics in that city on July 14. They have done this before in other states at other clinics. I was there in 2001 when they tried to shut down Dr. Tiller's clinic in Wichita, again.

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 6:32 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 06:32

I wrote this for my own web site, but thought I'd post it here as well. The same story with pictures is here.
Charley on the MTA, from BlueMassGroup (diary here) and I were asked to come and meet briefly with Sen. Kerry after a campaign event on Tuesday. The meeting itself has been reported on several blogs and commented on extensively. This is the story that the newspapers didn't report. I don't know about the TV news as I was no where near a TV Tuesday night. This is about the event at the Perkins School. Read More

Prayers for the People . . . Yearly Kos

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 12:18 PM PDT

2006/06/11 · 12:18

The prayer came out of the haunting quote that has been used often lately by Martin Niemoller (the wiki quote:)

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
We are running out of time, we MUST speak up.

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Tuesday January 10, 2006 · 11:35 AM PST

2006/01/10 · 11:35

OK, enough of interminable thread. Let's get this going in time for Kohl. Read More

Just in: Possible delay in Alito Vote

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Thursday January 05, 2006 · 6:50 PM PST

2006/01/05 · 18:50

Just in from Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said on Thursday it was unclear whether he could avoid a possible Democratic delay and get his panel to vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on January 17 as planned.

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 4:55 PM PDT

2005/09/12 · 16:55

For some this may be a touchy subject. For others it is yet another way in which the progressive community can help.

Many of us are sitting at our keyboards wondering what more we can do to help the people who have been crushed by Katrina. I know that I am looking for ways to help. Since I haven't seen anything regarding this topic and having searched the Kos diaries and not found anything directly related to helping women facing a horrible decision, I offer this.

I received this e-mail a few days ago Read More

Dr. Hager is LEAVING the FDA!

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 6:21 PM PDT

2005/05/13 · 18:21

Despite the fact that the MSM has done its best not to follow up on the story in The Nation about Dr. David Hager and his "sexual preferences," the Dr. has decided not to re-up when his term expires on June 30.

This is huge as the Nation article also exposed the role he played in stalling if not stopping the OTC distribution of Plan B despite the 23-4 vote of the FDA panel in favor.

Kudos for a very brave ex-wife and what's left of the "Liberal" media! Maybe now that it's been in a "real" newspaper, the rest of the MSM might pay some attention? Read More

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