"A woman is life without life there is death."
Some abortion-related facts: “Since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton states have constructed a lattice work of abortion law…” “43 states prohibit abortions, generally except when necessary to protect the woman’s life or health, after a specified point in pregnancy, most often fetal viability..” “19 states prohibit partial birth” or late term “abortions, 3 of those laws apply only to postviability abortions.” - Guttmacher Institute/ 10-1-15 “38 states require parental involvement before a minor obtains an abortion.” “59% of women obtaining abortions are mothers.” - Guttmacher Institute/ 2017 Fetal viability means the “ability of a fetus to survive outside of the womb.” “A preterm fetus of less than 23 weeks gestation has little chance of surviving outside of the womb.” -- medical-dictionary-thefreedictionary.com 3% of Planned Parenthood’s budget is spent on abortions, and since 1976 Planned Parenthood abortions cannot be federally funded, but must be funded via other means. 97% of Planned Parenthood’s budget is spent on women’s lives and related health issues. (Washington Post/ 2015) “In 2013, 664,435 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. The abortion rate for 2013 was 12.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 200 abortions per 1,000 live births.” - Jan 6, 2017/Data and statistics-Reproductive Health/CDC Yesterday was International Women's Day... Please give to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Incorporated: 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300/ Frisco, Texas 75034/ 972-248-9200
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"At Hotel Jane Fonda men with back hair have to pay a pet deposit."
Please give to the National Center for Victims of Crime: 2000 M Street, NW/ Suite 480/ Washington D.C. 20036/ 202-467-8700 “In one of my dreams I’m drivin through the Martian countryside, just after survivin a harrowing attack of a tribe of Heathers -- unlike mermaids the creatures’ upper halves are female and their lower halves are female too -- when me and Larry pass some oopamakoopas. These things are like a combination of NFL nose tackles and the Real Wives of Beverly Hills. Larry asks me what the giant creatures are and I say: They’re oopamakoopas. They eat rocks and poop out fertilizer. Larry says: ‘That’s great. Why don’t we take them to earth, they seem very efficient.’ I answer: Because of gravity. I don’t understand how Larry doesn’t know this, uh, but I don’t want to embarrass him. I arch my left eyebrow like Jack Nicholson in The Shining -- crack a welcoming smile. However, I continue in a pedantic monotone since me and Larry are old friends: On earth the oopamakoopas eat rocks okay but because of the denser gravity differential they can only poop out statues of industrial metal drums and we have all of that kind of art that we need on earth.”
Please give to the Natural Resources Council of Maine: 3 Wade Street/ Augusta, Maine 04330/ 207-622-3101 March is Women's History Month.
Darlene McTavish jumped in a cab: her twenty-two-year-old Harley was in the shop, she’d dropped it on an icy corner a week earlier, fortunately she hadn’t been injured but the bike had been pounded. When the taxi glided to a stop in front of FitzGerald’s Grocery Emporium the cabbie said: "Six smackeroos." To Darlene's surprise the meter was double-jointed or two-faced showing separate prices for males and females. The fare for women was $6.00 and the ticket for guys, $4.62. Darlene grumbled: "What the? Where in the Constitution does it"-- “Ahem. Pardon me? That’s just the way it’s always been,” inscrutable with hoodie eyes, the cabbie explained briskly. “Ask anyone, missy." Missy? Darlene took a deep breath, a brilliant calming technique learned from her YWCA Lamaze lessons. Though mystified as to why it was cheaper for a man to ride in a cab than a woman Darlene still shelled out a fair tip: two bucks. Inside Fitzy’s it was the same thing, the same inflammatory mystery lurked behind every price tag: milk was $4.00 for women and $3.08 for men, coffee $7.00 for women and $5.39 for men, and then the kicker, the final flipping insult, Tampons were $5.00 for women and $3.85 for men! Tampons?! Ahhhhh -- Despite being outraged -- her little clamshell ears were fire-engine red (a real warning sign) -- Darlene gently -- breathing in and out, asked the mustachioed cashier with the pug-lumpy face, "What's going on? Y’know this is unfair -- un-American. It's flat out wrong." The cashier shrugged, and said with no small kindness, "Sorry, ma'm, but on the average women make seventy-seven cents for every buck a man makes in this country -- you do the math." -end- (from the short story Ms. McTavish by Kevin O'Kendley, posted earlier, and in the short story section) Some women's history: please see Carbuncle Moon blogs: 1/21/17, 1/3/17, 11/10/16, 11/4/16, 3/19/16.. Pieces in short story section: Dangerfield's Drum, Three Travelers, The Old Dog on the Hill, The Playground, America, Poverty, The Carbuncle, Ready or Not Here Comes Eva, Herr Doktor, St. Nick, Caterina Zutzcu and the Three-Legged dog, and The Birth of Her Caitness... Please give to the National Organization for Women -- NOW: 1100 H Street NW, Suite 300/ Washington DC 20005/ 202-628-8669 A hero can be a migratory cheer of the heart before being shot down in flight by second thoughts, a hero one day a dead duck the next.
Please give to the Veteran's Assistance Foundation, Incorporated: 304 East Veterans Street/ Tomah, Wisconsin 54660/ 608-372-1280. “The Trump New Jersey Sphincter -- the 8th Wonder of the World -- has a butt for a face on a lion’s body. Not exactly like the Sphinx in Egypt but kinda. Gale force winds emanate from the butt-hole and blow tourists out to sea. The Russians, love it…”
(from one of my first cartoon ideas back in the 80s -- I had a word of assistance on this one) Please give to the Shriner's Hospitals: 3551 North Broad Street/ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140/ 215-430-4000/ And: 2425 Stockton Boulevard/ Sacramento, California 95817/ 916-453-2000/ and: Some History:
Israel and Palestine: 1947: United Nations adopts Resolution 181 partitioning the British Mandate of Palestine into two states/nations: Israel and Palestine (which includes the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). 1948: Israel and Palestine become countries for the first time. Palestinians resist partition. Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish groups begin fighting. The war escalates when Arab forces -- Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Yemenese, Syrian -- including the Arab Legion, invade. The war ends in 1949. As a result of the conflict, the two-state solution does not take place, a flight of Palestinian refugees begins, Israel becomes larger, Egypt controls the Gaza Strip, and (Trans)Jordan the West Bank. 1956: Israel, France, and Britain invade Egypt’s western Suez Canal area and the Sinai, after President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. The joint forces withdraw by 1957. 1967: Israel launches preemptive airstrikes against Egypt. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq retaliate. The Six-Day War results in Israel’s capture of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Israel still occupies 2/3rds of the Golan Heights, controls the West Bank with the Palestinian Authority. 1973 Yom Kippur War: On Yom Kippur, a Jewish religious holiday, Egypt and Syria invade Israel. After suffering losses, Israel counterattacks, repulses Egyptian and Syrian troops, and recaptures the Golan Heights. The war lasts nineteen days. With President Jimmy Carter in 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Peace Accords. Egypt recognizes Israel’s right to exist. Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize. President Sadat is assassinated as a result of his participation in the accords. In 1993, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed by the Palestinian Authority and Israel. A two-state solution is still recognized as a viable goal. The Palestinian Authority recognizes Israel’s right to exist. 2012: The U.N. recognizes Palestine as an observer state with rights of statehood. Approximately 91,105 Arabs and 24,969 Israelis (2016 statistics) have been killed in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1920, or beginning with the end of Ottoman Empire’s control of the Palestine region and the start of the League of Nations’ (British) Mandate. In the Mideast: Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan recognize Israel’s right to exist. Please see Carbuncle Moon post: 6/21/16 Sources: Wikipedia, historynet, Office of the Historian, Britannica.com, the history learning site, history.com, cnn.com, BBC, Jewish Virtual Library, Google, Speech by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Quora, History News Network, CBS... Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Season of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting, penance, abstinence, and reflection, which prepares for Christ's Redemption. On the Day of Ashes, a Christian is marked on the forehead by a paste made of ashes and formed in the shape of a cross. - Catholic Online |
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