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Governor Bryant, Our Father, baby-daddy, holy miracles and repopulating the...
Update: MSDH confirmed to me that $1500 from the general fund was used for the room rental at the request of Governor Bryant and negotiated by Nycole Campbell-Lewis (member of the governor’s task...
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Name tags
Attempting to attend as many name-badge requiring teen pregnancy get togethers as possible.
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Mississippi Teen Pregnancy Faith Based Summit: Sales Pitch for Truth in...
Update: MS Dept. Of Human Services returned my call and is going to check on whether or not any DHS money was used for event. Salvation Army has donated space in the past. Truth in Action may have...
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Dinner
This has been my longest stay in Mississippi. I leave Thursday – a full three weeks after I arrived. Tomorrow night I am hosting a ladies dinner. There will be a box of wine, a bunch of food* and...
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Lt. Gov. wants $7.5mm for guns in school (why not for real sex ed?) and...
JACKSON, Mississippi — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves is proposing a $7.5 million program to help schools hire trained and armed law enforcement officers to work on campus. Reeves said Friday that...
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Mississippi HB 151: seizing cord blood of underage mothers without...
I don’t think I have seen anything like this yet (except of course when Mississippi tried it last year). In the war on women this appears to be a relatively new one. It attacks women on so many...
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Jackson Women’s Clinic
An ever present anti-choice protestor at the Jackson Women’s Health Clinic The clinic is now officially in violation of the de facto TRAP law. After applying to numerous hospitals for admission...
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Abortion and Guns – pick your amendment 14th or 2nd
I had come to Jackson as a part of the project on sexual education, religion and public policy. But, the truth is a much wider net had to be cast. I couldn’t talk about sex-ed without talking about...
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Ab-Plus, Ab-Only and God
Very brief overview of the two events I attended today – Ab-Plus conference and the Governor’s teen pregnancy summit. Much, much more to come.
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Return to Mississippi, HB999′s first year and ACLU investigates Bryant...
NOTE: Scroll to bottom of page for info on the saucy bit about ACLU + Bryant Administration = Investigation of misuse of state/federal funds! I head back to Mississippi this weekend to wrap this...
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Monday
In front of Rainbow food co-op: “You’ve got a friend in Jesus” Mississippi plate. I got a “namaste” from the gentle hippie manning the register. In front of the Women’s Health Clinic which provides...
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Tuesday
Dana, head of Pro Life Mississippi, just got a new headset speaker so she could preach out front of the Women’s Clinic. She has taken up the job after another member was allegedly arrested for...
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Wednesday
Long talk on the porch last night with my friend Betty about the project. Since it is coming to a close (the grant that is) I have been thinking about what this thing has meant, where it can go, what...
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Clamming Up
It is religion that motivates Governor Phil Bryant. When I first came to Mississippi, I thought perhaps Bryant was a political opportunist, playing along with the wishes of the many. But Bryant is a...
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Girls as chewing gum, spit cups and transparent pieces of soiled tape
HB 999 states that abstinence only shall remain the state standard for sexual education, despite the fact it opens the door a crack for “ab-plus”. Here is a pretty forceful voice against that kind of...
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The Great Wall of Mississippi
_____________________________________________ It is important to understand the difficulty of reporting in the South. Establishing trust. Finding those people willing to talk to a reporter – let...
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Thursday, May 23
Today was interview day at MPB. I kicked it off with by speaking with Dr. Currier of the Mississippi Department of Health about ab-only vs. ab-plus. The interview was as I expected, very matter of...
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Mississippi HB 151: seizing cord blood of underage mothers without...
Reblogged from Mississippi: UPDATE: This bill was signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant. I attended a teen pregnancy prevention task force summit last week and this bill was championed as one of...
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