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Friday, April 27, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Walk Away from Walker Wisconsin Women!
Women of Wisconsin need to wake up and walk away from Governor Walker. Since his election in 2010, Gov. Scott Walker has split Wisconsin down the middle and created debates with every signature. His latest signature ended up on Act 219, the Repeal of the Equal Pay Enforcement Act of 2009. In Wisconsin, women receive 75 cents to every man's dollar, lower then the national average of 77 cents. Wisconsin women are getting paid less then men and even other women across the country. This bill takes away a woman's day in court after finding out her paycheck is less then her male counterparts'. Walker's team was lobbied by the Wisconsin Restaurant Association and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce which supported the Repeal, these two organizations have made it clear they do not stand on the side of pay equity. Gov. Walker has made a few public statements in defense of this repeal. The Republican logic of this argument becomes this: Employers are always sexist against women, and the Equal Pay Act makes it easier for them to be sexist and protect themselves. They claim it creates a glass ceiling effect similar to the minimum wage. And finally, women choose to be paid less then men and therefore businesses which consider cost, above all else, will therefore choose to hire the woman because she is cheaper labor then the man considered for the same position.Here's how this policy harms the economy: Women control 12 trillion dollars out of the 18.4 trillion dollars in discretionary spending. In 75% of households women are the primary shoppers. With this amount of money moving through the hands of women we have the spending power to bounce the economy back on track. If you make it harder for women to earn their money, you decrease that purchasing power. We women love shopping, that feel of that new bag, that new pair of pink shoes, that little black dress, we love to spend and shop and consume. The doom-and-gloom economy has made us have to tighten our purses and save up our money for a rainy day. Tell Scott Walker you demand pay equality, demand that little black dress, demand those new shoes, and the right to earn it in court!
My pro-life girls should consider the previous paragraph enough of a slap in the face against women, the following may not agree with your ideology. Be warned - pro-choice liberalism coming up...
The second piece of legislation to be graced by Gov. Walker's signature is the Coercive and Webcam Abortion Prevention Act; authored by Sen Mary Lazich and Rep Michelle Litjens. Lazich has said this bill will "save lives" and allows "women aborting to do so freely and with proper access to a doctor." This bill criminalizes doctors who provide medical services over the webcam while a woman is going through a medically induced abortion. Another aspect of the law is determining if a woman has been coerced or forced into an abortion, doctors must offer domestic abuse services if they feel the woman has been pressured. This bill outlaws a common practice of using a webcam to receive medical advice. This law is incredibly vague and nearly impossible to enforce. It criminalizes a doctor's conversation with any woman in his practice if he does not offer certain advice or alternatives. Because this deliberately murky law has been signed by Gov Walker on April 9th, Planned Parenthood has been forced to stop offering medically induced abortions, which are 25% of all abortions performed by Planned Parenthood clinics. This viable medical option is no longer on the table for Wisconsin, that choice has been stripped. In order to receive a surgical abortion, which is still offered by Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Madison and Milwaukee, you must visit the doctor 3 separate times before receiving that legal medical service. In no way does this allow women more freedom or privacy when needing an abortion. Planned Parenthood has already been attacked by Walker in stripping funds that provide preventative services like breast cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing, and contraception. We need to protect our reproductive rights, our inherent right to choice. A perfectly safe method of abortion which afforded privacy is no longer allowed for you, even if you have been raped, you must be surgically penetrated and can no longer grieve your loss without being lectured.
Wisconsin lost 4500 jobs in March, many of them in retail, a business dominated by women. The biggest issue in these upcoming elections is jobs. Unemployment will determine the mood of the public and will stir economic issues. Women make up the largest bloc of undecided voters, our vote has so much power. Scott Walker's agenda is to limit the rights of women, every single woman across Wisconsin. With these signatures, he has done nothing to put Wisconsin back to work. Wisconsin women can determine the course of the Recall election against Scott Walker. Money talks and we women control a lot of it! We need to Recall Governor Walker, he is no good for Wisconsin's women!
My pro-life girls should consider the previous paragraph enough of a slap in the face against women, the following may not agree with your ideology. Be warned - pro-choice liberalism coming up...
The second piece of legislation to be graced by Gov. Walker's signature is the Coercive and Webcam Abortion Prevention Act; authored by Sen Mary Lazich and Rep Michelle Litjens. Lazich has said this bill will "save lives" and allows "women aborting to do so freely and with proper access to a doctor." This bill criminalizes doctors who provide medical services over the webcam while a woman is going through a medically induced abortion. Another aspect of the law is determining if a woman has been coerced or forced into an abortion, doctors must offer domestic abuse services if they feel the woman has been pressured. This bill outlaws a common practice of using a webcam to receive medical advice. This law is incredibly vague and nearly impossible to enforce. It criminalizes a doctor's conversation with any woman in his practice if he does not offer certain advice or alternatives. Because this deliberately murky law has been signed by Gov Walker on April 9th, Planned Parenthood has been forced to stop offering medically induced abortions, which are 25% of all abortions performed by Planned Parenthood clinics. This viable medical option is no longer on the table for Wisconsin, that choice has been stripped. In order to receive a surgical abortion, which is still offered by Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Madison and Milwaukee, you must visit the doctor 3 separate times before receiving that legal medical service. In no way does this allow women more freedom or privacy when needing an abortion. Planned Parenthood has already been attacked by Walker in stripping funds that provide preventative services like breast cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing, and contraception. We need to protect our reproductive rights, our inherent right to choice. A perfectly safe method of abortion which afforded privacy is no longer allowed for you, even if you have been raped, you must be surgically penetrated and can no longer grieve your loss without being lectured.
Wisconsin lost 4500 jobs in March, many of them in retail, a business dominated by women. The biggest issue in these upcoming elections is jobs. Unemployment will determine the mood of the public and will stir economic issues. Women make up the largest bloc of undecided voters, our vote has so much power. Scott Walker's agenda is to limit the rights of women, every single woman across Wisconsin. With these signatures, he has done nothing to put Wisconsin back to work. Wisconsin women can determine the course of the Recall election against Scott Walker. Money talks and we women control a lot of it! We need to Recall Governor Walker, he is no good for Wisconsin's women!
Planned Parenthood In Ohio, Wisconsin Loses Battles
In one month Gov Walker has attacked women twice, his re-election strategy is making sure he gets the Republicans against Planned Parenthood vote. Women Stand AGAINST SCOTT WALKER! This man is not solving WI's problems by limiting access to a legal medical service.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Friday, April 20, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Now Is the Time. Actually, It's Past Time, Speaker Boehner
Dr David Gunn and James Barrett were killed with a gun bought by an emotionally unstable terrorist named Paul Hill. The NRA has enough influence in Congress, it's time to hear out the other side!
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Monday, April 16, 2012
An Open Letter to the Children of the Army of God
To sin is human, to forgive divine. God forgives every single one of us every single sin we commit in public or in private. God asks us to forgive each other, but this message can be lost even on the most devout. In 2003 Florida gave the lethal injection to Paul Hill. Believers have turned him into a martyr and a saint. This man was not a messenger for God, he was a murderer, plain and simple. The message of his movement The Army of God is a pro-life organization that is committed to protect and preserve life at any cost. Lethal consequences were the result of Paul's actions. In this letter I ask the followers of the Army of God and those that seek to join them to rethink the path of violence. I ask you to forgive your fellow human beings for a sin only you think they have committed. I do not seek to change your mind on life vs. choice. I only seek to stir your beliefs away from violence and back toward the God you love.
The language of the Army of God is inflammatory hyperbole and rhetoric. Anger and rage is not the Christian response. The Holocaust was horrific but abortion clinics are NOT concentration camps. The doctors that perform them are not Hitler. The Supreme Court did not sanction genocide in the Roe V Wade ruling. Using this inflammatory language does not convince anyone, it only provokes the use of violence. Shock value only desensitizes the significance of the historical events. Everyone believes the Holocaust was a wrong, not everyone believes abortion is wrong, and most people will not logically believe abortion is akin to Hitler's genocide. The Army of God uses the message of anger, fear, rage, and blame rather then the message of love, acceptance and forgiveness. If you seek to convince a woman not to get an abortion, do not insult, demean, condemn or judge her. Speak to her with respect, love, understanding and empathy, this is Jesus' message.
God's Will is unknowable, and rarely understood in the moment. Anyone who believes and says he can understand and interpret the will of God is plain lying to you. God had a plan for Dr. David Gunn, John Britton, James Barrett, Robert Sanderson, and George Tiller. These men were God's children, and he loved them. They would never know Gods' plan for their lives because they were all murdered by those who say they cherish life above all else. They were not deserved of death, their deaths were not justified. Believers may feel they decided their own fate by choosing to perform abortions, they chose to provide a health service to women in need not to be gunned down in parking lot.
Killing someone is wrong, it's murder, it's a felony, a life sentence and for Paul Hill a death sentence. When speaking about his crimes Hill said this, "I thought I'd be filled with religious rapture, but my stomach was a bottomless pit." Paul felt this way because in his soul he knew this was murder, cold-blooded and brutal. If every life, even one that cannot survive outside the womb, is sacred then the lives Hill took are also sacred. Destroying life is acting against God. If you continue down the path of seeking violence you will become a criminal, an outcast, a social pariah. Your liberties will be stripped from you, and your beliefs don't matter in prison. Taking a life is a judgement you are not allowed to pass, an action you will regret, and a loss of your soul. Even if you plant a bomb that doesn't kill anyone you will forever be a criminal. Paul Hill did not save any lives, he took them violently and for this God and society punished him as they will punish you.
Violence is never the answer. There are so many alternatives to death and destruction. Open a counseling center, an adoption service, trying listening to the women who want an abortion instead of preaching to them. Understand and forgive those who do not agree with you. If you are moved to action, called by God to change the world to end abortion then become an activist. Activism is how we change minds. I don't believe abortion is wrong or a sin, I believe it's a choice. That choice can only be taken away by God, not by those that call themselves the Army of God. Violence was not what Jesus taught he would be ashamed of those killing in his name. Love one another and forgive all those who sin against you.
The language of the Army of God is inflammatory hyperbole and rhetoric. Anger and rage is not the Christian response. The Holocaust was horrific but abortion clinics are NOT concentration camps. The doctors that perform them are not Hitler. The Supreme Court did not sanction genocide in the Roe V Wade ruling. Using this inflammatory language does not convince anyone, it only provokes the use of violence. Shock value only desensitizes the significance of the historical events. Everyone believes the Holocaust was a wrong, not everyone believes abortion is wrong, and most people will not logically believe abortion is akin to Hitler's genocide. The Army of God uses the message of anger, fear, rage, and blame rather then the message of love, acceptance and forgiveness. If you seek to convince a woman not to get an abortion, do not insult, demean, condemn or judge her. Speak to her with respect, love, understanding and empathy, this is Jesus' message.
God's Will is unknowable, and rarely understood in the moment. Anyone who believes and says he can understand and interpret the will of God is plain lying to you. God had a plan for Dr. David Gunn, John Britton, James Barrett, Robert Sanderson, and George Tiller. These men were God's children, and he loved them. They would never know Gods' plan for their lives because they were all murdered by those who say they cherish life above all else. They were not deserved of death, their deaths were not justified. Believers may feel they decided their own fate by choosing to perform abortions, they chose to provide a health service to women in need not to be gunned down in parking lot.
Killing someone is wrong, it's murder, it's a felony, a life sentence and for Paul Hill a death sentence. When speaking about his crimes Hill said this, "I thought I'd be filled with religious rapture, but my stomach was a bottomless pit." Paul felt this way because in his soul he knew this was murder, cold-blooded and brutal. If every life, even one that cannot survive outside the womb, is sacred then the lives Hill took are also sacred. Destroying life is acting against God. If you continue down the path of seeking violence you will become a criminal, an outcast, a social pariah. Your liberties will be stripped from you, and your beliefs don't matter in prison. Taking a life is a judgement you are not allowed to pass, an action you will regret, and a loss of your soul. Even if you plant a bomb that doesn't kill anyone you will forever be a criminal. Paul Hill did not save any lives, he took them violently and for this God and society punished him as they will punish you.
Violence is never the answer. There are so many alternatives to death and destruction. Open a counseling center, an adoption service, trying listening to the women who want an abortion instead of preaching to them. Understand and forgive those who do not agree with you. If you are moved to action, called by God to change the world to end abortion then become an activist. Activism is how we change minds. I don't believe abortion is wrong or a sin, I believe it's a choice. That choice can only be taken away by God, not by those that call themselves the Army of God. Violence was not what Jesus taught he would be ashamed of those killing in his name. Love one another and forgive all those who sin against you.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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