We are lucky to have the following guest post from local Diana Rhodes who attended Lobby Day last week and spoke to our congressional delegation about the Stupak amendment and immigration rights. Take it away Diana! PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM! STOP STUPAK! Recently, I was given the opportunity to fly out to Washington D.C., and…
Whew! I think I need to sit down. It’s been quite a whirlwind since Thursday when I officially became the lead plaintiff in the ACLU and Planned Parenthood lawsuit against Richard Ziser’s Personhood Initiative! First, let me say to all my feminist, progressive and generally wonderful family, friends and fans: Thank you so much! I…
I’ve been chomping at the bit for a few days now because I’ve wanted to share some big news with you. I am the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Richard Ziser’s Personhood Initiative! I am being represented by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood of America. (Here’s the two-part docs.) I must admit that this…
I am honored to have a wonderful guest post today from Maggie McLetchie, staff attorney and Interim Southern Program Director of the ACLU of Nevada. Here, she breaks down the latest Richard Ziser garbage and helps demystify the legalese behind it all. What’s the big deal about “personhood”? On its surface, the “Personhood Initiative” recently…
I can’t say it any better than this. Here’s some information from Planned Parenthood: The Senate recess begins today, and senators will be heading back to their home districts with one thing on their minds: health care reform. I wish I could say it was now just a matter of time until we get a…
So people have been bugging me for weeks to do a post on health care. And since I am a benevolent dictator here at The Siren, your pleas have not fallen on deaf ears. But sometimes the dictator part cancels out the benevolent part. I resent the health care debate because — as I keep…
I’m formulating a post about all this health care reform stuff. But it’s not ready and I do not have time right now to get into all of it. (The short take is that I grew up poor and had very limited access to health care. I’m for all Americans having access to reliable, affordable…
Today I have a guest post about Dr. Tiller’s death at the hands of anti-abortion activists. The writer has asked to remain anonymous, so let’s just call her Friend: Over the past month I have been doing some soul searching about what it means to be pro-choice in America today. The death of Dr. Tiller…
We only need three more states for the necessary majority (38 states) to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment. Nevada has the opportunity to be one of those three as legislation has been introduced. At the hearing last week the opposition came out hard and in numbers. But the history of the ERA in Nevada…
Things I don’t want to completely ignore: The Nevada Women’s Lobby (of which I am a steering committee member) has been working to support ACR5, a bill calling for an interim study on the state of incarcerated women in Nevada. President Obama has started the process to overturn Bush’s misogynistic plot to devalue women’s health…
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