Category: Abortion, Feminism, Women’s Rights
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Blue on Blue: Richmond Progressive Attacks White Feminist Privilege
by James A. Bacon There’s big money in telling White people how racist they are. Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo have made millions of dollars doing it. Now Saira Rao, an Indian-American Richmond resident, has figured out how to cash in on the action. Rao has written a book with Colorado co-author Regina Jackson,…
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Abortions in Virginia – Data for the Debate
by James C. Sherlock With all of the controversy, it is useful to know the facts of what has been happening with abortions in Virginia. The Centers for Disease Control conducts abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions and the number of abortion-related deaths in the United States.…
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Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Targeted in June Attack
by Scott Dreyer According to the Catholic New Agency’s “Tracker: Pro-abortion attacks in the U.S. continue,” there have been over 90 attacks on crisis pregnancy centers, churches, and other pro-life targets since May 2022. That was when the draft opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Mississippi Dobbs case was leaked to the public. To date,…
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Twofers, Threefers
by Jim McCarthy As time passes, it seems a safe bet to conclude that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson will be deemed an upheaval to American culture and politics greater than that of Brown v Board of Education. Dobbs may have unleashed a kraken-worthy pandemic of civic monsters to rival that…
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Virginia Jews and Their Differing Views on Abortion – Don’t Ask Public Radio
by James C. Sherlock Another day, and more intentionally misleading headlines in Virginia. This one from Radio IQ, written by Sandy Hausman. Jewish community leaders will fight attempts to restrict abortion in Virginia From the text. Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn, the only Jewish woman in the General Assembly, organized an online gathering to discuss her religion’s…
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The Abortion Hypocrisy of Glenn Youngkin
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Governor Youngkin recently told a forum organized by The Family Foundation that life begins at conception. I agree with that statement. He went on to say that he wanted to “protect life.” However, he said that he would be willing to settle for a bill that prohibits abortions after 20 weeks of…
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Impact of Supremes’ Roe v. Wade Ruling Way Overstated
by Ken Reid Should Governor Glenn Youngkin succeed in getting the Virginia General Assembly to curb abortion in Virginia from 25 weeks of pregnancy (at present) to 15, some 97% of abortions will still be protected, according to 2019 stats from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, in six of the eight…
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Prosecutors Who Won’t Do Their Jobs
by Kerry Dougherty Two local prosecutors just earned an A in both Fearmongering 101 and Grandstanding 101. Ramon Fatehi of Norfolk and Stephanie Morales of Portsmouth used the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V Wade to summon the press and draw attention to, well, themselves. The duo pronounced themselves “horrified” that the highest court would…
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Virginia Law, Abortion, Expectant Mothers and Medical Professionals
by James C. Sherlock To clarify for those who misunderstand or knowingly misrepresent the statements of Republican leaders in the General Assembly concerning a new law on abortion, a woman aborting her unborn child is not proposed to be the subject of legal sanctions. The targets in the mainstream Republican proposals being developed for a new abortion…
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Roe v Wade Is Gone
by Kerry Dougherty I hate writing about abortion. Americans are not persuadable on the topic. Minds are made up. But here is what I will say about Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade: Any lawyer who understands the Constitution will privately admit that the 1973 decision was always on shaky ground. An over-reaching…
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The “Occasional” Butchery of Children
By James C. Sherlock The New York Post wrote recently: At 12 years old, Chloe Cole decided she was transgender. At 13, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she’d made a mistake. Note the gracious acceptance of agency…
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Fairfax County and Protection of Supreme Court Justices Revisited
by James C. Sherlock In response to the adjacent exhortation by Fairfax County from its home page, I am speaking up. Defend the homes of the Supreme Court Justices who live in your county. I offer breaking news to many who only read and watch progressive media, including the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Justice Kavanaugh…
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Ideas Suffer the Casualty of Casualness
by Jim McCarthy Skilled polemicists and rhetoricians (perhaps even unskilled) can present material in a seemingly unbiased way even while intentionally distorting it. A recent Bacon’s Rebellion article bemoaned the assertion of Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano in a New York Times op-ed piece that he would “never prosecute a woman for having an…
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A Culture of Cowardice
by Kerry Dougherty Where are the American men? Real men, not the soft-handed cellphone addicts with product in their hair and vagina hats on their heads. Guys like my father, who once chased a pervert out of a crowded Manhattan movie theater for several blocks after a stranger took the seat next to mine and…
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Commonwealth Attorney Nullification
Steve Descano has written an op-ed piece in The New York Times. Should the U.S. Supreme Court roll back Roe vs. Wade, says the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney, he will never prosecute a woman for having an abortion — “no matter what the law in Virginia says.” The CA provides several reasons for opposing blanket…