When are we going to get through to legislators and conservatives: Women should have autonomy over their own bodies, including their uterus’ and the decision when and to/if have children! The latest stop in the uterus wars? A potentially damaging federal Health and Human Services regulation could be interpreted to mean that contraceptives are the…
Check this out … Fired up? PLAN‘s partnered up with Health Care for America Now! Come be a part of this important movement!
The United Coalition for Immigrant Rights is hosting their first activist conference right here in LV. And it’s free! Check it. Aug. 16-17. Southern Nevada NOW’s next meeting is Aug. 17 at noon at the Flamingo Library. Did I mention I’m officially a member of NOW as of this month? Speaking of awesome groups I’m…
Cause if you’d kick a kid in the face, maybe this isn’t for you. But even child-free folks like myself would like a world where kids don’t have to face poverty, unsafe conditions, lack of healthcare, cuts in education … and, you know, stuff like that. In fact, there’s going to be a forum on…
Planned Parenthood sent out an update on their progress to influence the platforms for the Nevada Democrats and Republicans. Thought I’d share: Nevada Caucus Update This weekend a six month long campaign to influence the party platform for both the Democratic and Republican parties at every level of state office culminated in a win. The…
So I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to talk about this on the blog, but I think it’s worth a shot because if anyone can offer me some tangible help … well, it would mean a lot. Recently, I found out my 35-year-old cousin has cancer. She’s always been in basically good health and…
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I haven’t had two minutes to rub together lately! Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped a steady stream of blog-worthy stuff from happening in the world around me. 🙂 Am I the only one who’s completely sick of the media’s spin and rhetoric — the Dems are going to eat…
Like a lot of people, I was pretty freaked out when the news broke last week about a potential link between the prescription drug Singulair and suicides. Singulair, made by Merck, is used to treat asthma (that’s me) and allergies and is available in doses ranging from children to adults. According to news reports, while…
Remember the whole birth control costs rising 900% thing? Remember how all it would take is an easy vote in Congress to fix it (at no cost to taxpayers, since it would just reestablish an existing program)? Well, the electeds have done jack about it and now there are women who are really struggling to get access to affordable birth…
My sister works at an RV Park on a busy street. The other night, from her office window she sees a pedestrian get hit by a car. She calls 911. She rushes out to the man, who is bleeding profusely from the face (!), and tells him that everything will be all right, an ambulance…
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