Melissa Harris-Perry’s Panel looks at Elizabeth Smart’s recent comments on abstinence-only sex education and whether the policy is effective.
Aissatou’s story also shows how badly the one-year deadline wastes the immigration system’s already strained resources. When people with legitimate claims for asylum are forced to seek waivers to the deadline bar, it pushes their cases into the already overburdened immigration courts and diverts limited time and resources that would be better spent assessing the merits of asylum applications. The resources that Aissatou and Patrick exerted to meet the high standard of evidence required to obtain a waiver to the deadline bar—expert witnesses, medical exams, and extensive documentation—shows how the one-year deadline restricts protections only to those who can afford high quality legal counsel or are fortunate to connect with one of a limited number of legal aid organizations (like NIJC) who can provide pro bono representation.
This is pretty effin cool. Watching these straight people react to being asked a question that gay people have been asked forever is pretty delightful. If only more people were this empathetic and understanding…
In Honor of National Masturbation Month, Let’s Ask Ourselves: What’s the “Point” of Sex?
Here’s a lesson from John Corvino, AKA “The Gay Moralist” about masturbation, Aquinas, and New Natural Law. He discusses the views of the 13th Century philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas and some of his intellectual heirs today—self-styled “new natural lawyers” like Robert George of Princeton—who provide the intellectual basis for much of contemporary social conservative thought.
GOP War On Women Stigmatizes Patients While Closing Clinics
Julie Burkhart of Trust Women Foundation, and Tammi Kromenaker, director of Red River Women’s Clinic in North Dakota, talk with Rachel Maddow about how patients and practitioners are weathering clinic-killing TRAP laws that are the new strategy in the GOP war on women’s health services.
In 2011, Rep. Gwen Moore breaks down the reality of having black babies, and the falsity of the “black genocide” lie.
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond, using the newest x-ray scanning technology that won its two inventors the Nobel Prize.
A recent YouTube video posted by David Leach from the anti-choice group Army of God should cause local law enforcement officials to raise their local terrorist alert to red. The video is a recording of a recent jailhouse conversation with Scott Roeder, the convicted murderer of Dr. Tiller. What follows is a partial transcript.
Leach: If someone would shoot the new abortionist like Scott shot George Tiller back in the Operation Rescue days, people called him Tiller the Killer, hardly anyone would appreciate it, but the babies. It will be a blessing to the babies, everyone else will panic. Of all places to open up a killing office, to reopen the one office in the United States more notorious for decades than any other is an act of defiance against God and the last remaining remnants of reverence for human life. It is what the Supreme Court classifies as “fighting words,” like throwing lard in a Mosque, burning a cross in a Black neighborhood, or immersing a cross in urine at taxpayers’ expense. It is a reckless act. It is not the act of someone who values their own safety. It is a gauntlet thrown down, by someone who wants a fight. Of course, I don’t know if anyone will pick up the gauntlet. I didn’t know Scott would act, before he did.
Roeder: It is a little bit death-defying for someone to walk back in there. For Julie “Darkheart” to walk back in there and reopen a murder mill where a man was stopped. It’s almost like putting a target on your back, saying, “Well, let’s see if you can shoot ME! I have to go back to what Pastor Mike Bray said: If 100 abortionists were shot, they [surviving abortionists] would probably go out of business. I think eight have been shot, so we’ve got 92 to go. Maybe she’ll be number nine. I don’t know, but she’s kind of painting a target on her.
The video is obviously a message to abortion terrorists near and far. Scott Roeder even bestows Burkhart with a sinister name, “Julie Darkheart,” a la “Tiller the Killer.”
What women deserve - Sonya Renee.
This woman is my hero.
