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thoughts on NOW and the Stupak Amendment

Dis­claimer: I haven’t been fol­low­ing the health care stuff too closely, because it is exhaust­ing, but this par­tic­u­lar aspect inter­ests me. The National Orga­ni­za­tion for Women is very upset because the Stu­pak Amend­ment passed and is part of the health care bill that passed the house the other day. Accord­ing to the NYT, the Amend­ment “would …

November 9, 2009 – 7:15 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in criticisms of feminism, current events, feminism, health care, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

is cultural libertarianism entailed by political libertarianism?

A cou­ple of months ago, I had a debate with a lib­er­tar­ian friend over whether cul­tural lib­er­tar­i­an­ism is correct/good/necessary/whatever. At the time, I was sure that I was what you would call a “cul­tural lib­er­tar­ian fem­i­nist,” as spec­i­fied in the Lib­eral Fem­i­nism entry on the Stan­ford Ency­clo­pe­dia of Phi­los­o­phy (a rep­utable source). Recently, Kerry How­ley …

October 28, 2009 – 9:24 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in ethics, feminism, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)