tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post8805612564108563038..comments2023-10-25T06:16:12.993-05:00Comments on Let's Be Clear: Congratulations to my LGBT brothers and sisters in Washington, DC!!!!DebChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018798227792356966noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post-31131345546561878022010-03-05T16:47:43.205-06:002010-03-05T16:47:43.205-06:00"Good thing my mind's-eye POV is from beh...<b>"Good thing my mind's-eye POV is from behind the exam table, huh?"</b><br /><br /><i>Yeah it is.</i> Heh, heh, heh! :-)<br /><br /><b>"That aside, I'm not sure about "forced sterilization" thing; I'd say it's more like, "the choice of no choice."</b> <br /><br />I was referring to the "Black Stork" shit of the early to mid-1900s and the "Mississippi appendectomies" of Fannie Lou Hamer's day.<br /><br />Going to the doctor to have a "knot in her stomach" removed and ending up, unconscious and splayed while a white, male doctor (the cousin of the plantation owner where she share-cropped) took the "knot" (it's said it was a fibroid tumor) and all the rest of her shit out - she didn't have <i>any</i> choice at all, IMO. She didn't even know it had happened until the cook, who heard it from Miss Ann, told it to Hamer's cousin.<br /><br />But, I hear what you're saying though. From then to now - "the choice of no choice" continues.<br /><br /><b>"... it seems to me like a case of treating a tumor with a BandAid, then blaming the BandAid when the patient dies."</b><br /><br />Perfect analogy!DebChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018798227792356966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post-73617720559050517042010-03-04T22:47:32.868-06:002010-03-04T22:47:32.868-06:00Deb, the mental image you created with the "l...Deb, the mental image you created with the "legs-in-the-stirrups" story is forever seared into my brain, for better or worse. Good thing my mind's-eye POV is from behind the exam table, huh? <br /><br />That aside, I'm not sure about "forced sterilization" thing; I'd say it's more like, "the choice of no choice." Like you said, there are so many things wrong in that campaign that it's hard to know where to start, but basically, it seems to me like a case of treating a tumor with a BandAid, then blaming the BandAid when the patient dies.Ciniehttp://cinie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post-83112796173470054092010-03-04T17:55:55.858-06:002010-03-04T17:55:55.858-06:00ea...I know - same thing for the LGBT community wh...ea...I know - same thing for the LGBT community which Catholic Charitiues has helped along by dropping health benefits for spouses - gay or straight. :smdh: <br /><br />Cin...I'll be on the look-out - and I'll write about her too (despite my wishful thinking). This "womb-lynching," like "high-tech lynching," seems nothing but a dog-whistle to the Black community to cover up the actions of the whistlers. No, forced sterilization in our community is no myth. But that article and its links, are scary and sad manipulations on so many levels - I don't even know where to begin. Remember my legs-in-the-stirrups story? Different I know, but the same - women not having the right to choose for themselves. :smdh: - again.DebChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018798227792356966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post-72845349584335407972010-03-03T19:07:21.146-06:002010-03-03T19:07:21.146-06:00Look for Bernice King to pop up soon rubber stampi...Look for Bernice King to pop up soon rubber stamping black community homophobia while carrying the Civil Rights banner on behalf of the black Christian conservatives in service to the religious right.<br /><br />Just in time to compliment her cousin, Alveda, currently providing the same service and imprimatur to the same forces and their anti-choice agenda.<br /><br />And, while their input is being framed as something new, unfortunately, both have been actively pushing the respective agendas of the right wing for years.<br /><br />http://jezebel.com/5483679/womb-lynching-on-the-anti+choice-targeting-of-african+american-womenCiniehttp://cinie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178687658619226992.post-41473653252558939912010-03-03T11:14:30.337-06:002010-03-03T11:14:30.337-06:00I thought the provider clause was about denying pr...I thought the provider clause was about denying prescribed medical treatment--which frankly is practicing medicine without a license and illegal in every state. But as long as it is about denying women care, it is A-OK!eanoreply@blogger.com