Health Care Reform. It's the LAW.

The dust is still settling and all I could cobble together to post re the health care bill, for now, is here.  There are some links there which discuss the bill from a woman's perspective.

More to come on this topic, I am sure...

My fellow women: please help improve the federal health care bill

You can spend three minutes and make a huge difference.  What to do is laid out here:
http://beepbeep.livejournal.com/1119845.html .

There is very little time, so please make a quick call (instructions given) and sign a petition now!

If You Want Abortion In The US To Remain Legal/Safe/Affordable...

then you may want to read this

and then DO this

and check this out as well.

Why? Because abortion rights in this country are very much threatened by the health care bill which has already passed the House of Representatives--one big step on the way to becoming law. It's now the Senate's turn to make their decisions. In other words, time to speak up for what you want asap.

As for me...I'm not fond of abortion...which means I am REALLY not fond of back-alley abortions. I favor keeping the procedure legal and safe and using common-sense means to reduce its use (such as caring about how mothers and children are doing even AFTER the baby is actually born...)

Anyway, the fight is on.

The amusing part is seeing so many diehard penny-wise-pound-foolish antitaxers claiming victory for their pocketbooks because THEY will no longer be paying for any part of women's abortions (those not covered any more by insurance.) As if children didn't cost anything to raise--to their families, but also to the community. Not that I begrudge children their education, etc., but I just have to laugh at these bitter Scrooges who can't add up the pennies properly.

The Health Care Bill

I wanted to post something about the historic bill which just passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. This is my women's issues blog, but certainly many women are interested in women's health issues as well as family health and have had special problems such as being discriminated against by health insurers.

But the current incarnation of U.S. health care reform is very complicated, and in the end the best I could do in a big hurry was to gather together some of the information I have and make it available here .

I hope it helps any of you who might be trying to find out how the legislation might affect you if it is passed.

California In Trouble

It looks like a lot of the poor, the sick, and the kids in my state are about to get hit hard by budget-balancing madness. The current proposed cuts are unlike anything we have ever seen before and seem like they are designed to send California back into Dickensian England's version of social services. More info here and a petition here.

May Is Lupus Awareness Month!

Learn about Lupus.

It Should Be Mothers' Day Every Day

For the health and safety of mothers and newborns around the world, that is.

Sometimes having my life threatened makes me irritable.

True confessions.