Women's health care and contraception

I AM A WOMAN

And NO MAN
NO GROUP OF MEN
NO INSTITUTION OF MEN
hold dominion over me, my mind, my body, my life, my choices, my vagina, or my uterus

If you attempt to restrict my access - or my sisters' access - to health care or contraception
WE WILL FIGHT YOU AND WE WILL WIN

Do not fool yourselves for ONE MOMENT that you have the right to speak for women, their choices, their thoughts, or their lives ANY MORE

Your attempts to own us, to harm us, to control us, to dictate policy to us, to impose your will over us -
IS AT AN END

You look scared, and I can smell your fear. And you should be afraid. Cause we aren't going to take your shit anymore.

We know how to direct 80% of the buying power and we know how to vote.

The age of old, crooked, white men is over. Consider this the death knell. Deep down, you know it. And we know it too.

Oh, and one more thing - deprive us of access and we will deprive YOU of access. If you take my meaning.

WE ARE THE MAJORITY

WE ARE THE 52%

.......Thank you, FaceBook

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Clay Aiken Speaks Out Against Amendment One

Well, sometimes I do put politics into this blog. not often because I'd alienate quite a few people as I am a flaming liberal and proud of it, but not everyone is of my political persuasion and that's OK, you won't go to hell or anything *g*. I keed! I keed!

Anyway, I believe in equality for all. Being a woman of a certain age, I remember when it was perfectly OK for a male boss to tell a female employee to come into work with no bra so the customers could ogle her and if she protested, he had every right to fire her. I know what it's like to make less than a man for the same job, still happens today. I know what it's like to have to work harder and be better than a male in order to get the same recognition he does. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of gender. It ain't fun.

I don't live in North Carolina, but Clay Aiken does and since I'm a fan of his, I blog about some things that are important to him and, at the same time, open my eyes to things that I might not necessarily hear about in my neck of the woods. This video was pointed out to me today and as I watched it, Clay said something about how this certain amendment that 'they' are trying to pass in NC would affect children. I never thought of it that way.

Let's start from the beginning. Check out this website: http://www.protectncfamilies.org/home
This is where I got my information. Evidently, North Carolina is proposing an amendment called "Amendment One". From the website:

On September 13th, the North Carolina Legislature proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would ban legal recognition for all unmarried couples, strip protections and benefits from families across our state, hurt our business climate and economic development and put our children in danger.

I never thought about how an amendment like this one could, potentially, strip children of medical insurance or affect the way the law treats domestic violence batterers. The website is very interesting and they lay out the issues in a way that makes for easy navigating the site. Here's Clay's video:




Let me know your thoughts.


Clay Aiken
North Carolina
Amendment One