Sex and Meaning

 Today Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) applauded the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families’ announcement of the launch of a major grassroots mobilization to refer the state abortion ban to the November ballot. The referral will allow the voters of South Dakota to vote to repeal the state’s law criminalizing abortion. The law, signed March 6, 2006, by Gov. Mike Rounds (R), endangers the health of women in South Dakota and violates the right of women and families to make private, personal health care decisions.

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And so the pendulum continues to swing to the far right. Even though when polled the overwhelming majority of Americans approve of a woman’s right to choose, the real question here is the American public willing to stand up and do something about this atrocity? Beyond Planned Parenthood and Baby Boomers (who remember the back alley days prior to Roe Vs Wade) are young men and women willing to stand up for a right that they have always taken for granted? I suppose only time will tell. There has never been a Religious Right movement as there is now — well organised with lots of big business Republican money funding them. It is much more difficult to pull together a grass roots approach nationwide with a population that can seem somewhat disinterested.

I was born the week Roe Vs. Wade passed in 1973. I was also an unplanned pregnancy. I don’t concern myself with the question of whether or not I would have been born if the option were available to my mother. But I do believe that she should have had the option. In addition, I worked many years in family planning clinics and got to see the need for termination up front and center. If you are under the age of 40 (in particular) get educated and please go out and get involved in taking back our rights as human beings. If we don’t begin doing this for ourselves, someone else will for us. The writing is on the wall.

Tuesday 21st of February 2006 10:13
Teachers have raised fears that plays such as Romeo and Juliet could be robbed of their meaning after draft new guidelines said pupils should not act out love scenes in schools.

A peck on the cheek is as far as most portrayals of love should go in order to protect youngsters from abuse, according to the guidelines, reported in the Times Educational Supplement.

source: http://www.news.clitical.com/index.php

“When I first read this I could have sworn the issue took place on American soil. But it seems as if the Brits are giving us a run for our money in the “prude department” on this one. If expression of passion and love are sanitized out of school plays we’ll lose the whole meaning and movement behind the creative force. I’m sure Shakespeare is rolling over in his grave.”