Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
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Mommy’s gonna knock your block off…
Forget brunch. Sports promoters in a Peruvian city are honoring its mothers by inviting them to slip on gloves and head protectors and try to punch each others’ lights out.
Split Personality… Obama proposes to split the agency that oversees offshore drilling.
Beware the sleeper issue of… Abortion. No, really. Not many people are talking about it. Seriously.
Two things you don’t talk to friends about- Religion and Politics. That is, if you still want them to be you’re friends.
CBS is kicking this age-old adage through the uprights and throwing caution to the wind.
In a move that will be sure fan the flames (are we using enough metaphors here) of the proverbial “culture wars,” the network approved the airing of a controversial pro-life (or is it anti-abortion?) Super Bowl ad. The ad features the Heisman Trophy-winning Tim Tebow, and his mother Pam Tebow.
Hut! Hut!
ABC News gives us the overhead coverage on the pro-life plug…
Paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, the ad tells the story of Bob and Pam Tebow, who was pregnant with their fifth child when the couple travelled to the Philippines on a missionary trip.
As you can image, some people aren’t please with the networks call. WaPo keeps us in the know…
After learning of the ad late Monday, Women’s Media Center (speaking on behalf of the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority Foundation and other organizations) asked CBS to pull the ad. It also questioned how and why the network, which used to forbid “advocacy” advertising
Senator Nelson will make us all smile if Health care is sorted out
For months and months and months and MONTHS, the nation has suffered through a never-ending health care debate.
Thankfully, we at USDemocrazy have decent health coverage. This is fortunate as we are suffering from aneurysms, ulcers, night sweats, strokes, and convulsions (due in large part to our general lack of exercise, caused by our non-stop monitoring of the health care debate).
But today, we can boldly announce there might be a tentative chance of an unconfirmed possibility that the Health care debate will (kinda/sorta/maybe) be all over!
Yes! The news of the day is if the Senate stays on its current track they will pass health care legislation by Christmas! Hooray!
But that’s not the end. (you really thought this was going to end?) …read more.
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Why the gift of a HUMAN BRAIN is driving scientists simply wild!
The Catholic Church is writing an amendment to the Health Care Reform Bill?!? Why the issue of abortion might be a bigger road block than public option…
Let’s get pumped for Copenhagen and practice BOYCOTT “Going Green” ! Read why one columnist thinks “Going Green” is actually hurting our efforts to save Mother Earth!
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We here at USDemocrazy are trying are hard (a novelty for us) to follow the recent health care hullabaloo that took place in Washington on Saturday night (check it out here).
In the midst of sleeping, eating, diligent research, we learned the health care bill the House passed on Saturday is upsetting a few people.
For a start, pro-choice advocates are none too pleased with the bill as it doesn’t allow coverage for the controversial practice of abortions.
We here at USDemocrazy are just trying to keep are heads down, as fingers are being pointed and kitchen sinks are zinging through the air. We don’t have any answers to the health care bill/ abortion debate, but one of these people may do…
OK, we here at USDemocrazy are a little miffed. We were COMPLETELY snubbed by the world of academia… No one asked us to make a commencement speech! (And we have some great material worked up… Just saying…)
While being bitter about this snubbery, we have been keeping up with the speeches being made by President Obama at both the graduations of Arizona State University and the University of Notre Dame.
It’s a pretty big deal to get the president to speak at your commencement. This year there has been particular controversy surrounding speeches by Obama… not so much for the speeches’ content but for their context.
First, there was ASU… which decided not to award the President an honorary doctorate.
The traditional bargain at these events is: you speak at the commencement, the school hands you a nice degree as a token of appreciation. ASU cited the fact that Obama’s achievements as president are still unknown and therefore he doesn’t merit a degree just yet. (On the other hand, we have reached a pinnacle in our blogging career… Can we get one of those degree thingies?)
Then there was The Notre Dame graduation. There was dissent over the choice of Obama for the commencement speaker. The point of contention was The President’s view on abortionwhich varies from that espoused by the Vatican. Student activists protested meanwhile, the Vatican has adopted a “Mum’s the word!” policy on the situation.
Speaking of the abortion debate, it’s worth noting that Obama lifted a ban that restricted federal money from going to groups that perform or endorse abortions. This the Vatican had some very strong words for…
Yet, Obama decided to bring up the elephant in the room when making his address, saying:
So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions. Let’s reduce unintended pregnancies. Let’s make adoption more available. Let’s provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term.
And, as should be expected, there were some jeers from the audience. But, a seasoned politician, Obama took them in stride.
That’s a lot of controversy over one speech. But, that seems to be the game of politics. (That’s why we like to be bystanders.)
If you’re interested in all that Obama said, here’s a transcript, and here’s video.
And now we get to wait for this weekend’s address by Obama to the Naval Academy while hoping everything goes smoothly, for once.
