Category: Justice

  • Arizona for Reproductive Freedom Initiative

    Arizona for Reproductive Freedom Initiative

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    Flight Like Your Rights Depend On It

    This amendment would provide a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom in Arizona, which includes but is not limited to the right to make and effectuate decisions regarding “prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.” The measure would also provide a right to a surgical or medical abortion until the point of viability in the pregnancy. Under this measure, viability is defined as “the point in a pregnancy at which … there is a reasonable likelihood of sustained fetal survival outside the uterus with or without artificial support.” 1

    EJ Montini Opinion – An Arizona voter initiative may be the only way to salvage women’s reproductive rights

    “It’s a question too big to be decided by a slim Republican majority in the Arizona Legislature. It’s a question that should be decided by us.” 2

    Arizona – Help Sign the Petition

    • Reproductive Freedom

      The ACLU of Arizona Responds

      “A decision about having a baby or having an abortion is a deeply personal, private decision best left to a woman, her family, and her doctor. Yet some politicians remain obsessed with interfering. Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed today, and it’s incredibly safe. But laws that make it difficult if not impossible for a woman to get an abortion if she needs one, particularly if she is poor, are increasing at an alarming pace. Since 2011, states have enacted more restrictions to abortion than they did in the previous 10 years combined. Extremist politicians continue to work to shut down women’s health centers, cut off access to affordable birth control, and shame women who have abortions.” 3

    • Abortion Related Ballot Measures

      BallotPedia monitors various legislation throughout the United States regarding women’s rights.

      Click Here for Their Full Listing

  • GoDaddy Supports Women’s Rights

    Thanks Goodness for Progressive Companies Like GoDaddy

    “We’re deeply concerned by the recent changes that limit reproductive rights,” GoDaddy officials said in a statement. “Limiting these rights impacts the ability for people to pursue success on their own terms, which is core to our mission to empower entrepreneurs everywhere, making opportunity more inclusive. That is why a few weeks ago we announced internally that we would be extending our U.S. health benefits to cover travel and travel-related costs for abortion-related and other healthcare needs for employees and their covered spouses and dependents on our health plan.” 4

  • “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh Now on the Supreme Court

    References:

    1. Huffington Post, Andy McDonald, October 6, 2018 – Stephen Colbert Thinks If You Like Beer, You’ll Love The Taste Of ‘Kavanaugh’ – “It’s the perfect beer for the judge who doesn’t want to be judged.”




  • Shame Upon America – Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R)

    Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it’s OK not to sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors

    The Orange Country Register, May 24, 2018, Jeff Collins –

    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R)
    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R) – Wikipedia

    U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told a group of Realtors last week that homeowners should be able to refuse to sell their property to gays and lesbians, a statement that cost him the support of a key national Realtor group.

    “Every homeowner should be able to make a decision not to sell their home to someone (if) they don’t agree with their lifestyle,” Rohrabacher told an Orange County Association of Realtors delegation at a May 16 meeting in Washington, D.C., according to Wayne Woodyard, a former Orange County Realtor president who was at the event.

    On Thursday, Rohrabacher confirmed the accuracy of the sentiment, and added that homeowners should have the right to “choose who they do business with.” [1]

    Read the complete article at The Orange Country Register.

    References:

    1. The Orange Country Register, May 24, 2018, Jeff Collins – Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says it’s OK not to sell homes to gays; loses support of Realtors (PDF)
    2. CNN, May 26, 2018, Clare Foran and Kate Sullivan – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher loses endorsement for saying it’s OK to not sell homes to gay people (PDF)

     

  • The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

    The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden - Available from Amazon.com
    The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden – Available from Amazon.com

    The Assault on Intelligence

    A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community’s work has never been harder or more important. This book by General Michael V. Hayden, The Assault on Intelligence, is a must read.

    In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach all of the United States, Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy, and the role of China in the global community remains unclear. There will always be value to experience and expertise, devotion to facts, humility in the face of complexity, and a respect for ideas, but in this moment they seem more important, and more endangered, than they’ve ever been. American Intelligence–the ultimate truth teller–has a responsibility in a post-truth world beyond merely warning of external dangers, and in The Assault on Intelligence, General Michael Hayden takes up that urgent work with profound passion, insight and authority.

    Michael Hayden, director of the CIA.
    Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA.

    It is a sobering vision. The American intelligence community is more at risk than is commonly understood, for every good reason. Civil war or societal collapse is not necessarily imminent or inevitable, but our democracy’s core structures, processes, and attitudes are under great stress. Many of the premises on which we have based our understanding of governance are now challenged, eroded, or simply gone. And we have a President in office who responds to overwhelming evidence from the intelligence community that the Russians are, by all acceptable standards of cyber conflict, in a state of outright war against us, not by leading a strong response, but by shooting the messenger.

    There are fundamental changes afoot in the world and in this country. The Assault on Intelligence shows us what they are, reveals how crippled we’ve become in our capacity to address them, and points toward a series of effective responses. Because when we lose our intelligence, literally and figuratively, democracy dies.

    References:

    1. Trump – Our First Illegitimate United States President