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The “Pajammer Party” is Providence Roller Derby’s first event of 2009!  This party is being held at the Scurvy Dog at 1718 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island on Wednesday, January 28th at 9pm.  So break up the monotony of your work week, by partying with us!

Here’s the bar:

http://scurvydogbar.com

or

http://www.myspace.com/scurvydogbar

Admission for this event is totally free.  It should be a really fun time, so put on your pj’s and come out and hang with us.

We’ve still got a few months before our home season starts, but please check out our allstar team, The Rhode Island Riveters!  They will be bouting against H.A.R.D. (Harrisburg Area Roller Derby)  at the RI Convention Center on April 11, 2009.

Also, dates are still up in the air, but our junior varsity team, The Killah Bees (aka my heart) will be playing before the home season as well.  I will keep you posted.

For more information about Providence Roller Derby or roller derby in general, you can check out our website at

http://www.providencerollerderby.com

and/or

you can ask me.

Training hard for my second season,

Sis Boom Bonnie

I have yet to find a “pro-life” organization that supports and promotes  birth control.  If you’ve read my previous blogs on this subject matter, you are aware that I am pro-choice, but a big advocate on simply preventing unwanted pregnancy before it occurs.  As an open-minded individual who likes to look at issues from many angles, I have navigated several “prolife” websites.  Here are my findings:

1.  http://www.prolife.com/ is a religious-based, anti-choice website, that considers “career and education” false gods that women worship.  The site shows several pics of mutilated fetuses and has interviews with former abortion providers who claim that they always believed they were committing murder, but it was such a lucrative business that they continued to do so.   I could not find any mention of contraceptives throughout the site.

2.  http://www.prolife.org/  Prolife.org is an informative website about what is happening in the news in regards to abortion laws.  There was no mention of contraceptives that I could find.

3.  http://prolifeaction.org/about/  Prolife Action seeks to overturn abortion laws by way of peaceful protest.  They work on recruiting young people to join the anti-choice movement.  They discuss abortion and it’s aftermath.  There is no mention of contraceptives.

4.  http://www.prolifeblogs.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=contraceptives&IncludeBlogs=2&limit=20  Prolife Blogs is a site where bloggers discuss anti-choice issues.  The link is what came up when I did a search for contraceptives.  One article claims that “normal women can’t remember to take the pill consistantly, thus leading to more abortions.”  There are several articles about risk factors of the pill and how it isn’t as effective as we are led to believe.  There is NO information on how to properly use contraceptives at all.  I should add that most of these blogs seemed to be written by men.  From personal experience, I can tell you that during the 8 years that I was sexually active with men, I was on the pill (Or-tho-tricyclen and later Or-tho-tricyclen Low) and using condoms.  I never had ANY complications or adverse side-effects and I have never been pregnant or had an STD.

Now lets take a look at some Pro-choice websites:

1.  http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/index.html  Naral Pro-Choice America is a pro-choice organization that supports a woman’s right to choose, family planning, comprehensive sex education, and birth control.  There weren’t any details about actual abortion procedures as I was hoping there would be.  There are NO opinions, just facts present.

2.  http://prochoice.com/  Pro-choice.com is actually NOT a pro-choice website.  The site gives information on 3 options: parenthood, adoption, and abortion.  The majority of the site is saturated with opinions, as most anti-choice websites are.  There is no mention of birth control.

3.  http://www.prochoice.org/  Pro-choice.org is an organization called the National Abortion Federation.  This site was VERY informative.  It goes into detail about every type of abortion procedure and gives many ways that you can get involved in your community.  There is mention of Emergency Contraception, but not of promoting birth control pills or condoms.

4.  http://www.protectchoice.org/  Protect Choice is an organization dedicated to bridging the gap between young women and the organizations that serve them.  They promote comprehensive sex ed, birth control, and reproductive rights.  I was delighted to see the image of the woman, raising her fist in solidarity, incompassed by a woman’s symbol.  I have this same image tattooed on my leg.  I fell in love with the image at The March For Women’s Lives in 2003.  A picture is worth a thousand words…

I urge you to read all the information you can get your hands on about this topic, educate yourself, and speak with women who have had abortions or chosen not to.  Get the real story from the people that lived it.  AND, for goddess sake, promote birth control, will ya?

Today I heard an interesting take on homosexuality and the Bible.  An older, religious, gay, man,that I know, explained it like this:  During biblical times, humans were so underpopulated that homosexual acts were considered a form of contraception, in other words, wasting of the seed.  Homosexuality was never considered a “sin”, it was just discouraged during a time when the Jewish population could have been totally wiped out if no one was reproducing.  Because the world is now overpopulated, homosexuality is becoming more accepted and homosexual acts legalized.

I had never heard this view point before, but it does make sense.  If I were a believer in God, I do believe that I would adopt this angle as my own.  We are all aware that there is scientific evidence that being gay is NOT a choice.  Gay people and straight people have varying levels of estrogen and testosterone making “gayness” completely biological.  So, if you believe in God why can’t you believe that God made gay people too?  Unless of course, you feel that you made a conscious choice to be straight….that would certainly open up a whole new can of worms.

The word “homosexuality” wasn’t even coined until the 19th century, so why is it found in translations of the Bible?

What are your thoughts?  Why all the hatred and discrimination?