A Woman's Work is Never Done, and Honored Even Less

Okay kids, a couple of things have come to my attention that I feel compelled to share.

First off an article at NOW's website brings to our attention attitudes towards woman put forth by the Bush administrations proposed social security policy. Second, and just as scary, NARAL has an article about pharmacies refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control.

I try very hard to only put out information. Either of things I find cool, or things I find scary. However, where these two things are concerned, I am driven to comment. I don't know how many of you out there have read the book, The Handmaid's Tale, well I have, and it scared the shit out of me. Not because it was so fantastic that these things were virtually impossible, but rather because we are racing towards them. For those of you that have not read this book, it is a futuristic story of an America where woman are stripped of their identities and forced in to state sanctioned positions of either whore, wife, or baby machine. I am over simplifying it for the sake of brevity.
I mention these two articles and this book because if you pay attention, you'll notice that we are stripping women of their financial independence, and removing their ability to control their own fertility. With these two things we move backwards in our attitudes of women's roles.
I don't know how you feel about all of this, but impoverished, pregnant and paralyzed is not my idea of freedom.

Please, it is paramount that you all act on these issues. Think of what these things mean for you and the rest of the women in your life. Also, there are permanant links on this page to a number of pro-woman websites, If perchance you are not framiliar with them, I implore you to add them to your political conscienceness.