Today’s Lady News: Bikinis 4 Babies!
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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5:45PM, Friday October 23rd 2009
When it comes to bikinis and abortion protesters, the blog posts just writes itself. Behold: “Millions of girls around the world need a great looking bikini to wear to the beach. Millions of babies around the world need to be saved from being brutally butchered. Bikinis 4 Babies combines these two needs by raising funds to help these innocent and defenseless children through selling some of the best looking bikinis, short sets, skirt sets, rompers & dresses at some of the lowest prices available anywhere.” It’s not quite as ridiculous as National Pro-Life Cupcakes Day, but it’s close! [Bikinis 4 Babies]
Yesterday the Senate voted to broaden the protections against hate crimes to include victims targeted for their gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill already protects victims of violent crimes based on their race, religion, color, and national origin. It now will head to President Obama’s desk, who has said he would sign it. [New York Times]
Pepsi ditched its AMP UP Before You Score iPhone app, which supposedly helped men “score” with different categories of women by offering suggested pickup lines for different categories of women like the cougar, foreign exchange student, and nerd. Yeah, we thought it was dumb, too. [L.A. Times]
Two Sudanese women ages 25 and 27 were fined $110 and sentenced to 20 lashes each for public indecency because they wore pants in public. This incident echos another in Sudan earlier this year when pants-wearing UN journalist Lubna Hussein was sentenced to lashing, which she eventually evaded. [L.A. Times]
According to Illinois state records, one in five orders of protection secured by victims of domestic violence have not been served. Since an order of protection prohibits the abuser from contacting the victim, Illinois’ attorney general and DV advocates are pushing for greater enforcement. [Chicago Tribune]
Protect Marriage Washington, a group that defined marriage as between a man and the woman, collected signatures to put a measure on the state ballot to try and repeal rights afforded to domestic partnerships. But the group balked at the idea that the identities of these signatories would be public and fought to keep their petition private. This week, a Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that disclosing the name of the petition’s signers is totally constitutional. [L.A. Times]
Immigration lawyer Samir Chowhan in Chicago is in hot water after he listed “sexual interaction with me and my partner” as a job condition for women seeking work as a legal assistant at his firm. When a woman contacted him about the job, Chowhan wrote back that she would have to “perform for us sexually” as “part of the interview process.” Granted, he listed this legal assistant position under “Adult Gigs” on Craigslist, but still…ew. [Chicago Tribune]
The Lutheran Church of Sweden, the country’s largest, will marry gay couples starting next month. Last may, the Swedish government introduced a law which afforded gay couples the same marriage rights as straight ones. [BBC]
Hundreds of Peruvians are demonstration against a proposed law to legalize abortion in the case of rape, incest or fetal deformity. Presently, abortion is only legal in Peru in order to save the life of the mother. [BBC]
A major NYC law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, recently promoted five associate lawyers to be partners and four of them were women! The firm chairman said it put in place flex-time and maternity leave to encourage the retention of female lawyers. [New York Law Journal]
”Amelia,” the flick about the legendary life of pilot Amelia Earheart, starring Hilary Swank, debuts tonight!
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MsLiberal
wrote on October 23 2009 @ 05:10 pm: [report]
Bikinis for Babies? Really?
How absurd.
Ginger
wrote on October 23 2009 @ 05:49 pm: [report]
Bikinis for Babies: Because killing your baby denies them the right to possibly be sexually objectified at the tender age of 3 months.
Alexa
wrote on October 23 2009 @ 08:13 pm: [report]
@Ginger, only someone with a warped mind would automatically equate a baby wearing a bikini with sexual objectification. While it may be absurd, that’s just a bit of a stretch, don’t you think? I think it speaks more to your mindset than anything else.
Kati-Anne
wrote on October 23 2009 @ 11:12 pm: [report]
The bikinis aren’t actually for babies, they’re women’s bikinis. That website must be a joke, right? I mean, the cheesy music, the hand-me-down adult superstore mannequins, the mostly awful swimwear… I really hope it’s a joke.
Ginger
wrote on October 24 2009 @ 02:15 am: [report]
@Alexa I had seen something for ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’ a little before writing that. That show always makes me rethink children showing their midriffs.
Now that I am removed from that show and not in the ‘oh dear god, children shouldn’t be paraded around like that’ I can see why you had the reaction to my statement that you did.
MissChaotic
wrote on October 24 2009 @ 02:21 am: [report]
*Still wonders if even half of these pro-lifers have actually adopted children who were products of rape or other disheartening situations (like born orphaned, or crack babies, etc)*
Meg
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 01:06 am: [report]
More like ‘buy a bikini, get a baby.’ Yeah this is ‘smart.’ Help others prevent abortion and what happens when you’re heading in the direction of needing one yourself.