The Writing Life: Keeping me honest

Neither a bad day nor a good day...just a day.

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favorite bit:

Death sobered you. It made you think about things like term life insurance, next of kin, and how badly your friends were going to screw up your wake if you didn’t leave them explicit instructions.

This affects you too, guys.

Because if we can't get access to reliable birth control? Lots of women saying you're not getting access to reliable sexual intercourse. And I for one will be carrying the means to enforce that decsion for myself. They can take away my sexual rights but they don't seem willing to take away my right to bear arms... (or walk with armed bears).


Just go here, 'k? Read. And if you think it's all screaming hysteria, do a little research for yourself. Then read the first statement again.

And say, all together now, WTF?

a follow-up to my previous post

Got this in the mail when I logged in. Copy, paste and repost at will. And ACT, people.


ACT FOR CHANGE ACTIVISM UPDATE: March 29, 2005

ActForChange and Working Assets are proud to bring you an urgent alert from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the leading national advocate for
personal privacy and a woman's right to choose. This urgent action calls on our nation's biggest pharmacies to ensure that they fill
women's prescriptions for birth control, including the morning-after pill. It may seem like common sense to you and me, but in as many as
20 states, pharmacies can refuse to fill such prescriptions.

NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation is one of the 50 outstanding nonprofits being supported by ActForChange's parent company, Working
Assets.

http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/eejp0BBkl60Okb0jFt0E6

This year we're proud to all be working together in support of reproductive freedom.

I urge you to take action below in support of women's reproductive rights. Together, we are making a difference.

Jennifer Willis
Director, ActForChange.com
________________________________________

Dear ActForChange Member,

It usually happens like this: a woman goes to her doctor and receives her birth control prescription, and then gets it filled
at the pharmacy. Right? Wrong. Welcome to the anti-choice movement's latest - and most insidious - attack on a woman's right to
choose.

Here's what's happening: In as many as 20 states, pharmacies are able to refuse to fill women's prescriptions for contraception - including
the morning-after pill.

It's truly outrageous. When a woman and her doctor decide that a prescription for contraception is in the woman's best interest, a
third party has no right to override that decision. Pharmacies must ensure that their customers get their doctor-prescribed medication
without delay or inconvenience.

To tell our nation's biggest pharmacies - Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens and Eckerd - not to stand between a woman and her
physician. Click below:

http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/eejp0BBkl60Okb0xCR0Ei

We know that access to birth control prevents unintended pregnancies and reduces the need for abortion. So, it makes no sense that
politicians and pharmacies are making it harder for women to get their pills instead of making them more accessible.

Get outraged at this intrusion into medical privacy, and join NARAL Pro-Choice America in ensuring that our pharmacies fill women's birth
control prescriptions.

To learn more and sign the letter to pharmacies, click below:

http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/eejp0BBkl60Okb0xCR0Ei

Sincerely,
Nancy Keenan, President
NARAL Pro-Choice America

Please forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about this important campaign!