myJaxonIf we don’t go crazy once in a while, we’ll all go crazy. - Hawkeye

Last night, I posted an article asking people to sign a petition going against the idea that birth control is a form of abortion. I know this can be a touchy subject and I’ve already seen where people think this is a lie and there’s no proof, so I went digging for some news article on the subject.

Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, I don’t care, but I do use birth control and if that right was to be taken away from me, I don’t know what I would do. We can’t afford to have another child right now and emotionally, neither of us are ready for another one. However, if birth control were to become illegal, that choice would be taken away from me. Condoms are fine and dandy, but they’re not reliable. I want to be sure that when/if I have another child, that’s its our choice. That it wasn’t an “OOPS” and then we have to deal with it.

Abortion at Saddleback Forum: If Life Begins at Conception, What About Contraception? by RHRealityCheck

The Bush Administration is now on record planning to equate contraception with abortion, for the purpose of allowing health care workers to deny patients access to contraception. It is clear the Bush Administration believes that contraception is abortion.

The plight of the lame duck by the Los Angels Times

The White House recently proposed a radical change to the Endangered Species Act that would allow government agencies to bypass a heretofore mandatory scientific review process that evaluates the impact of their actions. The Department of Health and Human Services drafted a new rule that could redefine abortion to include some forms of contraception and allow doctors and pharmacists to deny them to women as they see fit.

Don’t Let Bush Administration Redefine Pregnancy by the Connecticut Courant

But a recent proposal at the federal Department of Health and Human Services threatens to muddy all that. Ostensibly, the proposal seeks to protect health care workers who, for religious or moral reasons, don’t want to participate in abortions. The proposal suggests that for the purposes of health care workers, pregnancy begins when the sperm and the egg are joined, at the act of sex — something with which august bodies such as the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the British Medical Association disagree. Those groups and others say pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg implants itself into the uterine wall — a few days later that the Bush administration would have it.

New proposal could affect access to birth control WELLNESS by the Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star

The controversy arises because of the draft’s definition of abortion. To quote the proposal, abortion would be redefined as “any of the various procedures–including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action–that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.

Clinton swears to fight the “insulting” plan of abortion by Cayanmama

Sen. Hillary Clinton commented on the Bush administration’s plan for defining some of the very widely used methods of contraception as “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to the women.

The former Democratic presidential candidate teamed up with family planning groups in condemning the proposals that define abortion and actually include contraception methods like intrauterine devices and birth control pills. It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are compelled to offer contraception and legal abortion to women.

This is a touchy subject for me, so I’m not going to say too much other than the fact that this should not happen. I’ve signed the petition and now I’m asking everyone else to do the same thing. Whether you agree with it or not, I’m not trying to get into that discussion, but everyone should know what Bush is trying to do………
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I had to share something with you. Can you imagine living in a place where birth control is considered an “abortion” and health insurers won’t cover it? Where even rape victims are denied emergency contraception?

It seems unbelievable, but the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine “abortion” to include birth control. The Houston Chronicle says this could wipe out dozens of state laws that protect women’s reproductive freedom and protect rape victims. And this proposed “rule change” doesn’t need congressional approval.

I just signed a message to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, whose department is considering this rule change, telling him: “Contraception is NOT abortion.” Can you add your voice to this cause? Click here to sign the message.

Thanks!

George Carlin is dead!? He can’t be dead. He was too funny. He was hilarious and we were lucky to get a chance to see him at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC a couple of years ago. He is going to be missed.

George Carlin, a comedian famed equally for his bawdy routines about drugs and obscenities and for his ability to render absurd the most commonplace of items in modern life, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital yesterday, a spokesman said. He was 71. - The Boston Globe

So I’ve been blogging here, mySpace, and Facebook for awhile now and I’ve found something really awesome….Share This. Basically, it allows me to share any link I found to Facebook or mySpace, which means I can post a link to any posts I make on my blog site. However, it really doesn’t work well with mySpace. In fact, I really don’t like it for mySpace. But it’s awesome for Facebook. I’ve already posted so many different articles and it’s so easy.

Since I’ve found this, I’ve been reassessing my social networks. Originally, the only reason I even signed up for mySpace was to keep in touch with a few friends who used it exclusively and I kinda got sucked in, but not really in a good way. You see, I don’t run any program by Microsoft on my computer. I’m strictly a Linux girl and mySpace doesn’t work well with Linux. Oh, I can still do everything, but the blog post editor doesn’t work (I can only use the basic editor) and I have to upload photos one at a time and that can take awhile and oftentimes crashes Firefox on me.

On Facebook, everything works like it should. I can upload multiple photos at a time, I can share links from all of my blogs (Literary Escapism and Open Source Cook) and I don’t have to retype or copy them into mySpace. Plus, Facebook is just cleaner. I can add a bunch of different apps, but it doesn’t change the general layout or take forever to load.

So I’ve made the decision to junk mySpace. I’ll still keep the site up and active, but I’m not going to add any more posts, pictures, or anything else. I need to start reorganizing my time and trying to keep three different blogging sites is taking up too much time. If you want to stay current with me, then stick around. If you want to find me on Facebook, here I am.

Ian freaked out Jesse and I yesterday. If you have been reading Ian’s site, then you’re aware that we’ve started a new sleep method; if you haven’t been, we’ve started putting Ian to bed using the Ferber Method (which is Cry It Out) to get him to go to sleep. Well, we laid him down about noon yesterday, and he didn’t like that, and he was sleeping by 12:30ish. About 1pm, I sent Jesse in to open the bedroom door so Ian could let us know when he was up. It was a simple thing to do…crack open the door enough so Ian could stick his hand out and open the door. What Jesse wasn’t expecting to find was a locked door. Ian had locked himself in the bedroom and we didn’t even know it could lock. There is nothing on the outside doorknob to indicate that it could even lock, so we had no way of getting into the room. Ian was still sleeping, so we were able to freak out about it on our own. We called Emergency Maintanence and they called us back pretty quickly. They talked with Jesse on the phone, trying to give us different ideas on how to get the door open until the guy could get here. Thankfully, we were able to get the door open, unfortunately, Ian had woken up 3-5 minutes before that. Either way, we got him out and they are suppose to show up this afternoon to change the lock so it doesn’t happen again.

In other things, I was watching the Colbert Report this afternoon and I saw them talking about an article from the BBC. They are talking about how a study found that computer keyboards can actually be dirtier than someone’s toilet.

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.

Sadly, I can actually believe it too. I know my old keyboards could be quite…interesting.