Mar. 2nd, 2012

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From my unsorted links dump, some stuff re the current efforts to restrict US women's freedom:

How the Catholic Church almost came to accept birth control

Four Ways to Show How the "Religious Liberty" Claim Against Contraceptive Coverage Is Nonsense

About my 'spilled semen' amendment to Oklahoma's Personhood bill

An Oral History of Plan B

Woman Jailed, Ostracized After Resorting to Self-Administered Abortion: What Is This, Puritan America?: "In the United States, abortion is technically a legal right, but as these cases show, it’s not functionally a right."

Study Reveals Who Gets Late-Term Abortions. "These women were more likely to be young, black, less educated and living in poverty than women who had earlier abortions. They were also more likely to have experienced violence at the hands of the man who got them pregnant and to have dealt with at least three serious life events in the last year."

Solving America’s teen sex problem

More Texas Schools Choose to Teach Abstinence-Plus

Events in the US are important to me partly because I have friends and family Up Over, but also because unsavoury bits of American politics tend to find their way into Australia - and everywhere else, for example, Senegal.

And finally: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh. I mean it. "So, thank you, Mr. Limbaugh. I sincerely appreciate that you have finally come out and courageously said what all of your über-con buddies are thinking: If you’re not in control of who we’re having sex with, we’re no better than whores to you... It explains why birth control is the most horrific thing ever, it only encourages the whores to continue their whoredom."
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Brain going at 1000000000000 miles an hour. Gabbling, agitated, singing, full of beans, making brilliant connections. If this isn't bipolar I'm a coelocanth's great-aunt. (Sleep's gone to heck and I have PMS symptoms - cause or effect?)

Have already plotted out the entire first episode of a potentially watchable version of Elementary in my head. (No time to write it as fanfic or whatevs, though.)

ETA: I THINK THE MUG OF STRONG COFFEE MAY HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE

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