Discovery Baby week- my birth story and others
If you’re into birth stories (an acquired taste, clearly) check out mine and other great women BlogHers’ tales on Discovery Health. And I’ll be watching Baby Week, of which Jenny Lauck says, “It’s like Shark Week… except with babies! Baby Week runs Sunday, June 14th through Friday, June 19th at 8 pm.” (Best title: “Obese and Pregnant”) now that I’ve actually had the baby and can’t freak out.
Catherine Connors, Queen of Spain and Renee Ross, Lindsay Ferrier and others. Awesome.
Catherine Connors: it “was the most awesome experience of my life. It was the most terrifying experience of my life, and it all started while I was eating a fajita.”
what the internet is for
Lisa Belkin’s Motherlode column by guest blogger Emmie is titled, “Young, Single and Pregnant.”
In it, a 22 year old found unexpectedly pregnant asks Belkin’s advice about what to do: have the baby, put it up for adoption, or terminate the pregnancy? Belkin, in turn, asks her readers.
Of all the 577 comments, not one that I can see is hateful. Now, the Times probably moderated the comments, but they are still striking for their thoughtfulness, support, and gentle posing of viewpoints.
Just when we think the world is being molded by hate, with Dr. Tilller and the Holocaust Museum, it is touching to see online community at its best.
Emmie, I hope you find peace in your decision.
Why do websites give me so much for free
As I read Naomi Wolf’s piece in the glossy Harper’s Bazaar on why Angelina Jolie is a feminist role model, I thought something I think every single time I hear a report bemoaning the death of traditional journalism, or questioning how social media sites like Twitter can possibly stay viable.
MAKE ME PAY FOR IT!!
Honestly. I don’t deserve all this good stuff online for nothing. If you all band together and make users pay, we will. We’ll have to. What is the big deal?
I think this is what Steve Brill is trying to do with his new Journalism Online model. It’s one for all, and all for one, or it’s nothing. That is the challenge.
Link blogging health care reform- why no single payer option?
Cross posted from MomsRising.org
While doing research for a CNN.com Live appearance on health care reform and the Senate, I collated a series of helpful links. I am a proponent of single payer reform, but as has been reported, it’s just off the table on Capitol Hill. Obama himself said, “if he could start from scratch, single-payer might make sense—the same thing he said during the campaign.” But apparently, single payer is off the table. Without a public option, I don’t see how health reform can last and really make change. Mandating everyone to get insurance doesn’t solve the problem that just having insurance doesn’t really make things better! After all, writes Robert Kuttner,
“The U.S. health care system is the most expensive and least cost-effective in the advanced world mainly because private insurance companies waste about 25 cents on the premium dollar on claims, profits, administration, and marketing. They have no serious financial incentives to emphasize prevention, and every possible incentive to avoid sick people. Doctors and hospitals, meanwhile, make their money from increasing costs.”
Some sort of “public option”–a public health insurance plan (a la Medicare) that competes with private plans– is on the table, but whose version? See here for details. And visit Montanansforsinglepayer.org to see how Montanans are influencing their very influential Senator, Max Baucus.
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Morra Aarons-Mele utilizes social media strategies to help employers, employees and communities connect. She also consults with leading organizations on how women can use the internet for professional and personal development. In her spare time, Morra enjoys blogging about women and politics. Read her full bio >>
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