EXACTLY.

We're talking pap smears, mammograms, pelvic exams, and general health-and-wellness. AND various birth control means. For some parts of the country, Planned Parenthood is the ONLY place women can get health care of ANY sort. Only a tiny fraction of their work involves ending pregnancies. I think the last figure I saw was a big fat THREE percent.

O. M. G.

I wouldn't have needed the line drawing. But then again, I have a dirty mind. Another byproduct of Catholic school.

I donate to Planned Parenthood every month.

Proudly. That's where most of my extra money goes, these days.

That doesn't matter. Any more than our majority vote did in 2016.

I'm going to be interested to see how young women, who've lived ALL THEIR LIVES with the protections of Roe v Wade, will do, and how they respond, when they wake up one morning and realize that the protections they took for granted are suddenly GONE.

I brought this up during a conversation with my daughter and a couple of her friends while they were still in high school. Were talking politics. I told them that my generation fought and struggled and marched and petitioned and rabble-roused to win this right - that now benefits THEM as it did my generation before we started becoming acquainted with menopause. I told them they needed to stay vigilant and NOT take it for granted because there were forces aligned to do everything possible to take that right away from them. I doubt they'll remember that conversation or warning now. But they sure as shit will as soon as Roe v Wade is overturned.

One thing I do find intriguing, though. Now that trump has been so ham-handed in his treatment of our two closest international neighbors and friends, Canada and Mexico, how soon do you suppose it'll be before each of those countries sets up safe 'n' legal clinics inside their borders for American women who need help? He's done NOTHING to act like a friend or neighbor. He's insulted them, called them names, and taken steps that hit them directly in the trade department. Do you think they'd feel like being cooperative? I doubt it. If I were either of their leaders, Trudeau or the new guy in Mexico, that'd be the first thing I'd think of - to poke trump in the eye and show him how I felt about being shat upon the way he has. Some "fine" way he treats a friend, 'eh?

Hmmmm... MOST interesting.

I just skimmed the table of contents so far. It looks like a long read and I want to give it the time it deserves.

On first glance, though, I’m wondering if it could be the “Powell Memo of the Left.” If so, GOOD GRIEF DO WE EVER NEED IT!!!!!!!!!!

Lock them ALL up. From the top down.

It all started with Ronald Reagan.

Great cartoon!

No shit.

I blurt that out every time I see or hear one of the bad guys on the air. “WHAT is WRONG with you??????”

LOVE this!

Whether it’s real or not. I like children cage-free too. They grow up a lot better that way.