I notice at the end she won't be holding her breath so I guess she doesn't puff the stuff either.
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McKnight went down so that the anti-choice movement could gain ground on meshing multi-pronged attacks on women’s rights, reproductive rights, and civil liberties.
As was the case with McKnight, this ruling ultimately communicates the reality that female bodies still to other entities: to the government and the men who write most of these laws criminalizing our choices. (Not to take anything away from the impact of the bible-thumping, crazed hordes of anti-choice women. )
As women, we must keep asking the question of how far have we come in our right to control our own bodies, in the context of the cultures and societies in which we live.
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I, for one, want to see how interested the media would be in pursuing the kind of intensive coverage we saw devoted to a woman who had already lost all of her ability to function and live without life support. Both women’s stories revolve(d) around the government’s intervention in a person’s right to live or die. In this case, Raich’s loyal husband and lawyer is fighting for her right to live just as strongly as Schiavo’s loyal husband fought for her right to die. For that, he was made the subject of spectacle, and the Schiavo story drew national headlines. The sad, almost surreal media frenzy surrounding her death was also chronicled, sometimes minute by minute, on pro-life blogs everywhere.
To all the anti-choice folks out there talkin’ all that smack about wanting to make sure human life is sacrosanct … So, show me what you’ve got.
Members of the 4th Estate, I want to see you throw the same kind of effort into covering Raich’s case as Schiavo’s.
I won’t be holding my breath, but I’m still giving it a shot. Show me what you’ve got.
Schiavo vs. Raich coverage: Where's the outrage?
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Shhhhh, Mikey lost his last name in some circles too and more, while Terri regained her own. It may even become a verb or infinitive "to schiavo someone".
That goes for newscasters, headline writers, well-wishers, gawkers and everyone else. If we're not calling her husband "Steve," isn't it demeaning to call her "Tara"? And hasn't she been demeaned enough?
Unfortunate circumstance has already made a public figure of a private person, much as it did two years ago with Terri Schiavo, who also lost her last name in the process.
There's an air of cheap celebrity to one-name appellations -- Britney, Whitney, Rosie, K-Fed. The memory of Tara Grant, or Ms. Grant, or Grant, or whatever you care to call her besides Tara, deserves better.
What happened to respect in the Tara Grant case?
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