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Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.


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Best lines ever.

Producer: "I'm an artist! I took some time off to... to explore other aspects of my life!"
Investigator: "Narcotics and despair?"
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Writer's Block: Not So Genius

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Which modern invention do you think the world would be better off without?
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The atomic bomb. It was due to atomic bomb testing that we became a nuclear power and have shifted the very basic value of war, pushing the limits of science and chemistry into places we can never back out of. There's no telling what kind of a world we would have without the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction hanging like a guillotine over the heads of developing nations.
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I've been doing a lot of thinking

Cross posted to Insanejournal.

So, I've been doing a lot of thinking, and yard work, and shopping, (and now drinking because after helping lay down two flats of sod on no sleep I think I deserve it) and I have talked to my parents and aunt and a few friends, I have come to a conclusion. A few of them.

One, I am a freak. I have been a freak for a long, long time and it's about damn time I admit it, and OWN my freakness. I have no motivation to *change* my freakness and I have *built* a good portion of my self identity around my freakness and at 23 I don't want to go fucking around with my self identity. I like my self identity. I am very, very fond of myself, and I've worked hard to get just this far and I just... don't want to lose any of that.

Two, I am completely done freaking out, because I am done being a thirteen year old girl and am going right back to being me, however confused I happen to be about certain things. It is not helpful to freak out, and being a spaz about certain things only reinforces the freak. It's like having an argument about hardwood floors verses carpet while a rhino shits in your living room. People look at you funny and wonder what planet your brain came from.

Three, it's a lot damned easier to go with the flow than I ever imagined, and I think a large part of that ease is what fueled the spaz factor. This is nothing *bad*. It just *is*. And the only thing to do with the spaz factor is to fucking cope and deal. And try to keep it a lot more private next time. Sorry to those I managed to make uncomfortable. As a future warning, that may happen again as I am unpredictable. I apologize in advance.
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Time Line for TurkVincent/ImmortalSquall verse

I.... really need this. Yes, I fucked canon, that... was completely unintentional but I can't think how to fix it *now* and really... It won't effect the story *that* much.... I don't think....

None of this was written in order, and some has yet to be written... It's planned... kinda...


The First Meeting: Squall and Vincent

Jail Bird: Twitchy gaurds

Bleeding Out: Pissy Vincent

Beware the Black Cat: The hunter prowles.

Paper and Penknives: The cat comes back.

Mission Start: Infiltrating Shinra

Sacred: Some things are holy

Capture: Turnabout's fair play

Subject X: Hojo

Lab Lion: The price for being special

Thunder: Escape

Salvation: Running from Ifalna's POV

Rightness: Gast

Innocent: Elmyra

Liars: Problems with immortality

Peace Lost: Choosing sides.

Blood Jungle: Wutai

Blood Jungle 2: Resolution of Wutai

Town of Bones: Setting up shop

Coffin Days: Vincent meet the foursome

Sahara Snow: After Jenova

Hello Again: Old not friends

Wash Away: The past remains

Finding Home: Family reunion, spiky style

Flock Patterns: Getting Ready To Ride.

Blood Ties: Enter the den

Meeting Mother, Part One: Face off from Vince's POV

Meeting Mother, Part Two: Face off from Cloud's POV

Ringing Peace: After Sephiroth

What Is Ours: Touch Not The Owned

Turk: An offer and a threat

Not So Bad: Settling down in the aftermath

Paradise Lost: Life goes on... strangely.

Beginning Tomorrow: Making progress past denile.