Sunday, October 30, 2011

Goverment is the problem....except when it comes to your uterus...

Pretty much that is the gist of a ballot initiative in Mississippi this year, as Irin Carmon.

That’s partly because the Personhood movement hopes to do nothing less than reclassify everyday, routine birth control as abortion. The medical definition of pregnancy is when a fertilized egg successfully implants in the uterine wall. If this initiative passes, and fertilized eggs on their own have full legal rights, anything that could potentially block that implantation – something a woman’s body does naturally all the time – could be considered murder. Scientists say hormonal birth-control pills and the morning-after pill work primarily by preventing fertilization in the first place, but the outside possibility, never documented, that an egg could be fertilized anyway and blocked is enough for some pro-lifers.
What I wonder is, if the ACA is so invasive then how is this not?

-Cheers

Monday, October 10, 2011

Fire up that TARDIS....

The estimable Ezra Klein does thorough cataloging of the what went down with the Obama administration during the Great Recession of 2008. It is a very interesting read and does a good job of getting a lot of the relevant information, that is easily forgotten today, out there.

Pretty much the gist of it is: We were more screwed then we thought, and our systems of governance are just not good at handling these sorts of problem.

But I will let the man speak from himself on the subject: