April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

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It’s hard out there for a pimp..er priest

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So a Romanian priest has decided that unless you are as pure as the driven snow, you can’t wear white.

Bucharest, Romania (AHN) – A Romanian priest has introduced a “white dress fine” against non-virgins brides who will wear white dress on their wedding day. The 37-year-old Father Petrica Bratu from Valea Sarii, Romania said the aim of the fine is to prevent couples from living in sin.

The fines will range between $20 to $118 in a nation where the average monthly salary is just $196.

Why the wide range in fines (I pretend) I hear you ask?

Because Father Bratu wants to get his rocks off hearing just how much of dirty girl you’ve been.

“The fine depends on how intimate a couple have been before they get married.”

Under the priest’s white dress fine scheme, couples who had recently moved in together would be fined $20 but brides who were pregnant or had children would pay $118.

Wonder if Father Bratu will be using the money to buy bridal porn?

A woman’s right to life

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The center will appeal to the Nicaraguan human rights council and the Supreme Court, arguing that the law violates a women’s right to life.

Think about that sentence for a minute…..

Has it sunk in?

A woman’s right to life

Who would ever have imagined in the year 2006 almost 2007 that we would be debating whether or not a woman’s life was worth saving.

Nicaragua has decided to enter the debate. Resolved that a fetus, even a dead one, takes precedence over a woman.

The public prosecutor for crimes against women is investigating whether doctors fearful of punishment even before the newly-passed abortion law had gone into effect stood by while Jazmina del Carmen Bojorge, 18, died from complications to her pregnancy.

Bojorge was awaiting her second child when she and her 5-month-old fetus died this month in a public hospital in Managua. Bojorge’s family says they took her to a hospital when she complained of limb pains and weakness. When her condition worsened, doctors say they determined her fetus was dead, but Bojorge went into shock before they could save her.

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Ana Isela Vega, who was three months pregnant when she suffered a miscarriage this month, was refused the necessary procedure to evacuate her uterus in a public hospital in the city of León, said Marta María Blandón, Central America director of Ipas. According to Blandón, the doctors worried they could not operate for legal reasons. Under pressure from women’s groups who explained that the law did not forbid removing an already-deceased fetus, the doctors finally operated.

Of course we know that anti choice types only create these types of laws because of their great love of children.

Um…maybe not

Asked in an interview this month about the case of an 8-year-old Nicaraguan who was raped in 2002 and whose family fought successfully to get her a legal abortion the following year, Navarro replied, “If a 9-year-old is raped, she should have the baby, because that child has rights.”

I’m guessing he wasn’t talking about the 8 year old child.

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Feel good gifting

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Came across this story today.

Amamanta, Spanish for breastfeeding, is a blend of two words that mean love and protection.

It is also the name of a doll family whose members may appeal to holiday shoppers looking beyond the latest Barbie or Bratz doll for a present that’s non-hazardous to body image and can also educate about how babies are made, born and nurtured.

Each 16-inch cloth adult Amamanta doll has genitals and pubic hair, and the mother doll features breasts that can be snapped onto the baby doll’s mouth to help reinforce the importance of breastfeeding.

“I wish children to be happy and grow with the idea that sexuality is important and is part of our lives,” says Margarita Maria Mesa Leal, owner of the company that makes the dolls. Leal hand sews dolls herself, in addition to employing 27 local women in Medellin, Colombia, all of them mothers.

Dolls aren’t cheap; an individual can be purchased for $39 or a family for up to $199. Leal didn’t go into the particulars of what she pays her workers, but she says these prices allow her to pay a living wage and use only high quality materials.

Fantastic too that they show proper birthing, breastfeeding and come in multi racial/cultural varieties.

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The Price…

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Screams splinter the air
Shattered pieces of innocence
Pierce her soul
Unasked for knowledge
Never forgotten
The price a child has paid.

Shunned and alone
With stripes her body is adorned
Her pleas fall to deaf ears
Her life unmourned
Pain grips her now
The price she must pay.

Blood flows like water
Tears flow like rain
Mother cries for daughter
Memories of pain
Silent as unspoken sorrow
Her life ebbs away
She’ll never know the price
A woman must pay.

Abuse as Humour

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How nice to know that abuse can still generate a chuckle or two.

There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night. Officials are questioning a 54-year-old man who forcibly used a cattle brander on his 22-year-old wife the night before their wedding.

The jealous husband explains that he tried to justify the branding by saying he wanted to make sure that other men knew right away that his new wife was his, and only his.

A woman branded on the night before her wedding makes a cute news story. Does it really?

What exactly is cute about the scar she will now carry the rest of her life?

What is cute about the damage to her body and psyche?

What is cute about the breach of trust? The fear? The pain?

There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night.

How could these lines be written unless there was some agreement that she is property? That he had a ‘right’ to commit this act of abuse.

The police say “he has some explaining to do”.

Some explaining? What explanation would make what he did alright?

Well this humour challenged radical feminist sees no humour in this story. I do however find it funny that anyone can say with a straight face feminism is not needed.