Morning Roundup: Jacksonville Mayoral Candidate Jokes About Bombing Abortion Clinics
South Dakota wants to require a crisis pregnancy center visit before an abortion, racist billboards appear in Manhattan, Oklahoma and Missouri advance bills banning abortion at 20 weeks, and a Jacksonville mayoral canditate jokes about bombing clinics, but said it was ok, the audience was Catholic.
South Dakota moves forward with a bill requiring a woman to visit a crisis pregnancy center before an abortion, racist billboards appear in Manhattan, Oklahoma and Missouri advance bills banning abortion at 20 weeks, and a Jacksonville mayoral canditate joked about bombing clinics, but said it was ok, because his audience was Catholic.
- The South Dakota House has passed a bill requiring women to visit crisis pregnancy centers for “counseling” by an anti-choice activist before being able to terminate a pregnancy. Aside from mandating “harassment, propaganda and coercion,” the bill is also unconstitutional, and the state will need to spend mass amounts of money to defend it in court.
- The racist anti-choice billboard campaign has reached Manhattan, and New Yorkers aren’t too happy about it. Picturing a little African-American girl, the ad reads, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.” One man was so disgusted he called the city’s 311 hotline to report it.
- Oklahoma is moving forward on an abortion ban at 20 weeks (based on the false notion of “fetal pain”), as is Missouri, based on viability.
- A Jacksonville, Florida, mayoral candidate joked about bombing abortion clinics, but said it was appropriate, because he did so in front of a Catholic audience, who was “110% pro-life.” (Does he also make racist jokes when no people of color are around?) While bragging about how anti-choice he is, he said,
the only thing he wouldn’t do was bomb an abortion clinic, then the law-and-order advocate added, with a laugh, “but it may cross my mind.”
The Mandarin crowd applauded.
Catholics, and anti-abortion activists in the area had differing reactions. Most said the “joke” was not funny, but one attendee said, “”There’s no reason to get so serious about the whole thing.”
Feb 23
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- Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages – Mother Jones (blog)
- Kansas House to debate 2 anti-abortion measures – NTV
- Side effects of the GOP’s war on family planning – Washington Post
- Family planning faces funding cuts – In-Forum
- Bill to benefit rape victims – StandardNet
- No side effects reported in first phase trials of HIV vaccine – MSN India
- Female post-coital gel promises to block HIV – The Swazi Observer
- Kline denies allegations at ethics hearing – Kansas City Star
- Planned Parenthood attacked – San Antonio Current
Feb 22
- Ending family planning funds could affect 54000 in W.Va. – Charleston Gazette
- COLUMN: New bill smacks of state-sponsored terror – USD Volante Online
- Man wins leave to appeal in HIV case – ABC Online
- Does legal attack on Title X violate women’s freedom? – BG News
- Planned Parenthood fears the worst – Metro.us
- SD House passes abortion counseling measure – NECN
- Mo. proposed 20-week cut-off for abortions meets praise, criticism – Southeast Missourian
- Anti-Abortion Billboard Sparks Controversy – NBC New York
- Bill requiring women to have sonograms misses the mark – Hilltop Views
- Catholics: Hogan wrong to think they’re OK with clinic bombing humor – Florida Times-Union
- South Dakota Advances Bill Mandating Controversial Anti-Abortion Counseling – Mother Jones
- Side effects of the GOP’s war on family planning – Washington Post
- Pa. newspapers petition to open sealed abortion case – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Elite Controllers – Are They the Key to an HIV Vaccine? – About.com: Health
- FDA Considers Over the Counter Status for “Morning After” Pill for Girls Under 17 – Fox News
- TERRY: Will Boehner defund Planned Parenthood? – Washington Times
- House bills aim to defund abortion – Washington Times
- Abstinence, OU Style – Jewschool
- Oklahoma House committee passes fetal pain anti-abortion measure for 20-week … – KFOR
- Statins reduce T-lymphocyte activation in HIV – TheHeart.Org
- Focus placed on education as UN women’s commission begins annual session – UN News Centre
- Did Jackie Speier Shatter “Common Ground?” – Religion Dispatches
- HIV, AIDS and the church’s response – Fiji Times
- Catania’s “Over the Counter” Birth Control Isn’t Actually Over the Counter – Washington City Paper (blog)
- Magic Johnson lending support to fight against AIDS in San Antonio – Bizjournals.com
- The government says I’m financially able to have six children – Victoria Advocate (blog)
- NARAL Knocks Hayworth and Gibson Over Birth Control – Politics on the Hudson (blog)
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- Defund Title X, increase abortion – Boise State University The Arbiter Online
- Fox’s Bolling Ignores Key Fact While Promoting Lila Rose’s Planned Parenthood … – Media Matters for America
- America Used to Agree on Public Funding for Family Planning. What Happened? – Slate Magazine (blog)
- Santorum gets Colberted (with video) – Pennsylvania Ave. (blog)
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- A Guide To GOP Proposals To Slash Family Planning – Kaiser Health News
- Dem 2012 Candidate Randall Terry to Protest GOP Funding Planned Parenthood – Sunshine State News (blog)
- Designer Babies Will Be Godless Achievement Machines – Discover Magazine (blog)
- Don’t let Republicans kill family planning – Tufts Daily
- African American Women Health Issues – EmpowHer
- Iowans challenged to end ‘culture of silence’ – Iowa Independent
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- Fighting maternal, infant mortality – Nation Online