I went to state universities after that. Less expensive, and fewer hassles.

i would never have lasted at a school that required attending chapel even once, let alone 3 times a week. it’s a coin toss whether i’d have stormed off first or they’d have tossed me out first. very large, very secular state university with lots of science courses for me.

my parents wanted to become clinic escorts as soon as they heard about the paul hill shooting. i did just barely manage to talk them out of it, pointing out that it would be safer to volunteer for habitat for humanity and play with nail guns instead.

we’re not living in liberal times right now. this conversation might have worked back in the [bill] clinton era, but there are still too many religious zealots [prison good, yay] and too many conservatives-who-think-they-are-centrists [ok, we’ll jail just the abortion providers] who are in power and likely to be for some time.

it’s unikely that the heads of all the catholics on the supreme court will explode in the near future. [no, i don’t wish him ill, either, and it could just have been a bout of hypoglycemia.]

you must not be talking to the same people that i’m talking to, which possibly bodes good for the state of florida, suggesting maybe the demarcation between sane and batshit crazy follows the blackwater river. thank goodness for all the new yorkers who moved down south to get out of the cold.

i think it’s very possible that old laws on the books like those equating abortion with manslaughter might get rolled back, but even if only a few rogue states outlaw abortion, it will be a huge setback for the idea that women are their own persons. there are plenty of otherwise good-hearted and smart people out there who would gladly shoulder the mantle of protecting women from making the terrible decision of having to kill their babies.

but i’ll agree with you that we need to hold lots of conversations and expose all the tactics of the opposition.

The Catholic Church is responsible for the laws in most of Latin America, but that strangle hold is loosening. Nepal has too many problems to mention.

They keep pushing for a ban in Florida, but it isn’t going to happen, because talking about it is worth more than doing it. If they really try to do it, the pols know their terms are over. That’s why the freaks have gone into the assassination business – to do by terror what they could not accomplish by ballots.

Jill. I’ve had this conversation with people, and they really don’t like it when you try to pin them down. The old law for New York was still in some of the Penal Law books at the department where I worked and the charge was the equivalent of Manslaughter. It was a heavy prison sentence. They need to commit on this issue so people can decide.