Free Speech Now Denied by Legislator towards Women Legislators

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform. Ryne Sandberg

We need to demand the same from legislators.

Roe vs. Wade landmark decision on American women's right to choose, Michigan while hearing views on whether or not to pass restrictive legislation against abortion decided one woman's inclusion of the word "vagina" on the house floor the anatomically correct word by the way is restricted indefinitely from being able to speak on the house floor again. I have to wonder what he would have thought if someone said pussy...

Anyway, this is America we have the right to free speech as long as it is not to insight a riot or hateful crime.  Legislators cannot be sued for their views on the house floor either, so they so be able to express themselves without prissy men slang also known as fussily and excessively respectable in this case a male trying to quiet women like Lisa Brown whether she is a women or a democratic for speaking her mind.

See full story at http://jezebel.com/5918493/female-legislator-who-dared-say-vagina-during-abortion-debate-banned-from-speaking-on-house-floor

Time covered it here: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/15/watch-after-saying-vagina-a-woman-legislator-is-banned-from-speaking-on-house-floor/

Dear Mr. Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas as a former service worker in the US Army and National Guard I appreciate your service there.  However, your behavior in this incident is deplorable perhaps you should plan on going back to flipping pizza in your parent's business where small town minds gather. (No offense to townee's of course, unless you voted for this guy); what happens on the house floor protects all state representatives from repercussion's such as you dished out; we can only wonder what your wife Marsha's life is like living with you, get a grip Ms. Brown was stating her view and you have no right to quiet women's voice's ever if you are going to hear a side be prepared for both or step down.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino
Michigan has no democracy when it denies freedom of expression from it's own member's.

To the Mother's without a Card Today

As I travel down that old familiar road, I find myself in longing the landscape beckons me; folding me in an embrace that caresses my brow and soothes my soul while releasing my tears with it gentle whispers of home...

Child: Mom?
Mom: yes. 
Child: you know what's weird?
Mom: what?
Child: they started asking about you again (pause), like how's your mom.
Mom: (slowly smiling)
Child: So, I guess "We" do exist...
Mom: Yes, yes we do... we exist ... are you ready then?

                                             
Child:(simply giving that eye brow look)

Mom:(like a reflection in his beautiful eyes) To see the     
                                                                                world ...


That saying when one door closes, another will open ... why it opens is because "we" make life happen; we're mothers - we push past obstacles and break barriers; we are relentless to make this world better for all children ... we will never recoup what we have lost - but by learning, persevering and fighting for it; we will win the future for our children! 

Happy Mother's Day.

Yours in opposing oppression;
Denise-Marie McIntosh

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American Female Employees at Risk

This is America right? Women across the country should be concerned about how their rights are constantly being attacked by male legislators and/or like the Georgetown student not be given the opportunity to speak at a committee hearing on contraception! I do not side or advocate either side’s position Women vs. Men, Democrat vs. Republican, or even the right to choose abortion, but I do ask you to consider whether like men, women have the right to control their own minds and bodies on a case by case individual basis and not be deemed a “slut” by the likes of Russ Limbaugh http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-calls-female-contraception-expert-a-slut-video/

Recently the public debate has come to contraception again, nothing new:

President Obama’s TruthTeam@BarackObama.com #1truth bite for last week centered around: Whether or not WOMEN'S HEALTH CAN BE "MORALLY OBJECTIONABLE" it states the following:

“Thursday, the Senate voted down a bill that would have allowed employers to deny women coverage for birth control and any (unnamed) "objectionable" medical service,… Senators Roy Blunt and Marco Rubio's amendment would have allowed any employer -- not religious institutions, because they are already exempt -- to make this call on behalf of their female employees. That means a woman's boss at a restaurant; retail store, law firm or anywhere would have control over what health care she could receive. After an hour during which he was on the record opposed to it, Mitt Romney said … "Of course I support that amendment." … And we can thank him for paving the way -- ….”

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy, although this case has been deemed controversial, and there are accusations of "judicial activism" by many it is certainly not the standard we see today of judicial oppression.

The idea that a women has control over her body was furthered most notably in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), another controversial case where the Court ruled that a woman's choice to have an abortion was protected as a private decision between her and her doctor. Here lies the dilemma if you believe abortion is murder, the preventable measure is contraception, although there are others that claim this is also a form of murder; the murder in this country and in particular several State’s including but certainly not limited to that of the “Live Free or Die” is that full term abortion is not murder if the doctor snips the spinal cord before the head leaves the birth canal; monitors and nurses have seen the effects on the unborn and seriously describe and recognize that, that is murder.

No matter what advocates for either side state; abortion has lingering side effects on the women who have the procedure; “95% of these women were not at all satisfied with their choice today.” (http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/statistics.asp) Simply making contraception available and resources to educate women and research women’s health could possibly aid in making abortion a thing of the past. However, until women’s rights are enforced, there are devastating life experiences that lead women to this extreme measure not the least of which is rape, incest, and the public mark of being a socially undesirable person as an unwed mother, still exist.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html This site has facts on contraception; ¼ receive care from a family planning clinic that is publicly funded. In light of the other care received at these facilities it is very small compared to their general health needs and deters abortion which can have a greater impact on public funds in the long run. As a community we need to keep up with the health of all our members; better health and insight can only lead to less public money on long term care of its members who can’t afford the rising insurance and medical costs going on in this country today.

There are fences that we must climb and there are fences that we must never cross; not empowering women with control of their own health and bodies is such a fence without women - men would cease to exist as well.