US Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died.
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, medical officials said. She was 58.
Tubbs Jones, a Democrat in her fifth term representing parts of Cleveland and its suburbs, suffered the aneurysm Tuesday evening while [...]
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RIP Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Posted in Culture, US House on August 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
TN Hospitals Reducing Health Care for Women
Posted in Reproductive Health, tagged HCA, Reproductive Health, TN on August 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week Rachael alerted us that since St. Mary’s took over Baptist hospital system, Babtist will no longer be offering women tubal ligations.
Early this year, I posted on the Knoxville, TN merger of the city’s Baptist Hospital into St. Mary’s (a Catholic system) and the resulting end of access to tubal ligation and vasectomy at [...]
While You Were Caught Up In The American Idolization of the VP
Posted in 2008 Elections, Bush Administration, Civil Rights, Health, Military & War, tagged 2008 presidential elections, arsenic, Caroline Kennedy, diabetes, Georgia, Obama, Russia on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As America is caught up in who Obama will choose for a running mate, and when exactly will he announce, The Bear is flexing it’s cowboy muscles, staying in Georgia, scooping up Georgian troops and, somehow believes that they had the right to stay in the “buffer zone” as they reject the UNSC resolution.
The draft [...]
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