Gov. Palin is a prominent member of Feminists For Life, a fundamentalist group advocating prison for doctors who perform abortions under any circumstances. FFL also opposes birth control, even for married couples.
Nice slogan, eh? “*Refuse to Choose*”
(FFL states that it does not endorse politicians, despite the banner on their homepage endorsing Gov. Palin for Vice President.)
Q&A with Palin on the issues in July 2006
Palin and “Femistists for Life” oppose Birth Control
The problem is that FFL doesn’t just oppose abortion. FFL wants abortion to be illegal. All abortions, period, including those for rape, incest, health, major fetal defects and, although Foster resisted admitting this, even some abortions most doctors would say were necessary to save the woman’s life. (Although FFL is not a Catholic organization, its rejection of therapeutic abortion follows Catholic doctrine.) FFL wants doctors who perform abortions to be punished, possibly with prison terms.
It was extremely difficult to get Foster to say what she thought would happen if abortion was banned. At one point she would not concede that women would continue to have abortions if it was recriminalized; at another she argued that criminalization was no big deal: Instructions on self-abortion were posted on the Internet. I had to work to get her to admit that illegal abortion was common before Roe, and that it was dangerous–numbers on abortion deaths were concocted by pre-Roe legalization advocates, she told me. Yet the FFL website prominently features gory stories of abortion mishaps and discredited claims that abortion causes breast cancer. (Challenged on the cancer connection, Foster says they just want women to have medical information. Asked why they don’t then link to the 2004 Lancet article debunking their cancer claims, she says they are not medical experts and have considered taking the cancer pages down.) So legal abortion is dangerous but illegal abortion would be safe? When I pointed out that in countries where the operation is banned, such as Brazil and Peru, rates are sky-high and abortion a major cause of injury and death, she professed ignorance.
I got similarly evasive answers when I asked why FFL didn’t promote birth control, and when I asked if FFL considered the pill an “abortifacient.” She did tell me that “birth control doesn’t work” for swing-shift nurses because they lose track of their body clock–interesting, if true–or for teenagers, which I know to be false.
Palin visits D.C., lobbies for Alaska issues Feb 25, 2008
Cross Posted on MYDD
Yes, it’s official. After months being courted by many candidates, on the eve of the republican convention, the Supreme Being has finally sent his own message of endorsement for Barack Obama as President.
Dear God,
I know that America is your favorite and that you have been angry with us. I know that you were smiting the United States of America for it’s perversions, when those Ayrabs flew those planes into the twin towers, and I know you took your vengeance upon New Orleans and America with Katrina, because of the queers and feminists and liberals. And Dear God I know you sent us George Walker Bush to save us from those Godless terrorists, and that you told John McCain to choose a good woman like Mrs Palin for his VP. (BTW, I was getting a little worried about John, but now I feel so much better.)
I know all of my friends and I are really excited about the God Fearing Republican Party again and am so looking forward to the Republican Convention in Minnesota this week.
Dear God,
I know that America is your favorite and that you have been angry with us. I know that you were smiting the United States of America for it’s perversions, when those Ayrabs flew those planes into the twin towers, and I know you took your vengeance upon New Orleans and America with Katrina, because of the queers and feminists and liberals. And Dear God I know you sent us George Walker Bush to save us from those Godless terrorists, and that you told John McCain to choose a good woman like Mrs Palin for his VP. (BTW, I was getting a little worried about John, but now I feel so much better.)
I know all of my friends and I are really excited about the God Fearing Republican Party again and am so looking forward to the Republican Convention in Minnesota this week.
The GOP now has a VP candidate who thinks there are too many polar bears. These furry mammals have made the egregious mistake of chosing to move to the area Ms. Palin and her oil buddies would like to start landcaping.
Fortunately, she won’t have to personally go shoot all of the remaining polar bears, since her oil friends are working on drowning them all.
Nine polar bears are at risk of drowning after the ice floe where they lived melted because of global warming, scientists have said. The bears were spotted in open ocean off the northwest coast of Alaska, miles from their normal hunting area by US government oil survey scientists flying over the Chukchi sea.
Scientists who study the polar bear see this group of nine bears trying to swim 400 miles to safety as a bad sign. In an area as vast as the unprecedentedly-large open waters of the Arctic, spotting one group this large and this lost means there are likely many others.
Good evening everyone!
Blogs do not (yet) drive public opinion. The overwhelming majority of voters have probably never heard of DailyKos and certainly haven’t heard of MyDD. We aren’t there yet. We aren’t much better than an echo chamber. We can raise money pretty well and we’re not that bad at organizing. We can, on occasion, do some good opposition research (though the Republican bloggers have done a better job of it thus far).
We really aren’t kind of a big deal (yet). This is very important and it speaks to a misunderstanding. We’re self-centered, and we overestimate both the good we can do, and the damage we can wreak.
Howdy all!
Alaska has a population of roughly 670,000. The 1970 census shows that Cleveland had a population of 750,829, and the 1980 census shows a popuation of 573,912. Then Mayor Dennis Kucinich had executive control over a population (during his term, which ran from 1977 to 1979) roughly equivalent to the modern population of Alaska. The “Boy Mayor” was a dismal failure, leading the city of Cleveland to default on its debt. However, he’d had a full two years running the place. I live not far South of Cleveland, so the story is known to me.
Sarah Palin has been in charge of Alaska for about 18 months. Anyone care to point out to the Republicans that Congressman Kucinich was more qualified prior to winning his seat?
Cross posted at MyDD
Dan Quayle, met Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin, met 1988.
This pick is a disaster in many ways. I find that it is my civil duty to list them, so here goes:
1. McCain experience attack meme? Dead. She has 19 months experience as the Governor of Alaska. Otherwise, she was mayor of a small town, and a Beauty Queen, (love those pics, BTW). She is now a heartbeat away from running the country. How comforting.
2. Bush/Cheney big oil? She’s so deeply immersed in big oil, it makes Cheney look like Al Gore. No maverick environmentalist here. Alternative energy? No! Let’s fucking drill some more, and some more, and some more.