Dan Savage Says:

Straight Rights Update: Earlier this month, Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family-planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women," one Republican state rep told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying promiscuity is okay." On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine—a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year—from being made available.

The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child-support payments, gentlemen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.

What's it going to take to get a straight-rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back!

the cat

After having Escher's eye taken out, it turns out that the problem with it was a malignant tumor. The cancer had already spread, so she has a limited amount of time left. In a year so so, her liver will fail.

Mississippi's assault on sex

In Mississippi, it is now illegal to sell sex toys. But not just any kind of sex toy, "any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”

Why?

Apparently, genitals are only to be stimulated by one's lawfully wedded, spouse (of the opposite sex), and only for the purpose of procreation. Which of course, limits orgasm only to males. Yes, I'm aware that they did not outlaw masturbation in general, but I'm sure they would have if it were possible.

South Dakota

It's good to hear that somebody in South Dakota is doing something about the new abortion law.

President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge, Cecelia Fire Thunder said, “I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”

http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/013061.asp

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Thanks to Dwivian and Fleur.