NAPW Shares the Truth with Sarah Palin

All this talk about Sarah Palin and the rights of fetuses (feti?) has got to make you wonder, what does this all mean for women exactly? Remember them? The vessels for the unborn? The people with vayjayjays? 

If you have ever wondered what fetal protection laws do to pregnant women, then check out the work of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Here's their mission: 

National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)works to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women, and those who are most vulnerable - low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. NAPW seeks to ensure that women do not lose their constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy, that addiction and other health and welfare problems they face during pregnancy are addressed as health issues, not as crimes; that families are not needlessly separated, based on medical misinformation; and that pregnant and parenting women have access to a full range of reproductive health services, as well as non-punitive drug treatment services. By focusing on the rights of pregnant women, NAPW broadens and strengthens the reproductive justice, drug policy reform, and other interconnected social justice movements in America today.

This organization does what the right to life pretends to do.  Next check out their ED's open letter to Sarah Palin.  Read it all please but I will share one highlight:

According to the press reports, instead of going straight to a hospital you chose to get on a long airplane flight back to Alaska.

When Pamela Rae Stewart, allegedly, didn't get to the hospital quickly enough on the day of her delivery, she was arrested in California on the theory that she had violated the rights of her fetus.

Let's get this done. Obama/Biden '08. Not only because they rock, but because McCain/Palin is too costly for American women.

This is for all of you community organizers out there....

If you don't read/watch Jay's blog, get on it. http://www.illdoctrine.com

John McCain's Judgment

Ok, so now in addition to a serious abuse of power issue in what is being dubbed "troopergate" Governor Palin's 17 year old daughter is five months pregnant, and the Governor was once a member of a secessionist party in Alaska. There is actually more... I understand that Obama thinks families are off limits and I respect him for that, but her idea that "abstinence" is an actual policy to keep kids from not getting pregnant or having sex or contracting diseases is an issue and it places her in the ridiculous position of being a hypocrite and foolish like the rest of the Rethuglicans. Pathetic. It also places John McCain's judgment front and center, begging the question why on earth would he choose this obscure Governor from Alaska?

See below what is actually the best argument on why she has no business on the ticket. Campbell Scott, who I have never really had an opinion of seriously challenges this bozo from the McCain campaign on her foreign policy credibility, which is none. The McCain argument is "yeah, but Obama doesn't either." She tears apart that argument. It is worth every second.