Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: meghan daum

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Schlafly still cranking along

Oh, shit! Phyllis Schlafly is still alive and still cranking along...

I can't believe it. This nemesis of my youth, the heady 1970s when we were trying to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, is still fighting feminism.

And she has a niece who is carrying on the family tradition in a Gen-X way.

The good news is that Meghan Daum has inteviewed the niece and provides some key information to deflate the myths Schlafly has perpetuated.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum-column-schlafly-20110331,0,2982491.column

In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.