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A real happy ending — 2nd UPDATE

The bill took some big strides on Monday.

First, it made it out of the House Judiciary Committee on vote of 10 to 1 in favor. I testified first, followed by a long list of witnesses ranging from activists to a former inmate who gave birth shackled to legal experts to an OB/GYN and Laraine, the nurse-midwife.

One of the lawmakers really didn't understand what was at stake and kept asking how we planned to protect the guards from these dangerous women if they were unshackled. Clearly, this man ha...

A real happy ending — UPDATED

The bill took some big strides on Monday.

First, it made it out of the House Judiciary Committee on vote of 10 to 1 in favor. I testified first, followed by a long list of witnesses ranging from activists to a former inmate who gave birth shackled to legal experts to an OB/GYN and Laraine, the nurse-midwife.

One of the lawmakers really didn't understand what was at stake and kept asking how we planned to protect the guards from these dangerous women if they were unshackled. Clearly, this man ha...

A real happy ending

The bill took some big strides on Monday.

First, it made it out of the House Judiciary Committee on vote of 10 to 1 in favor. I testified first, followed by a long list of witnesses ranging from activists to a former inmate who gave birth shackled to legal experts to an OB/GYN and Laraine, the nurse-midwife.

One of the lawmakers really didn't understand what was at stake and kept asking how we planned to protect the guards from these dangerous women if they were unshackled. Clearly, this man ha...

MTM goes on a dig

This is my kind of artifact

My college degree and grad school work is in archaeology, but in my 10 years of studying Latin, Greek, and archaeological technique, I never saw a dig that produced anything like this. And when I say that, what I mean is that I spent three months classifying turkey ulna. Yes, turkey wing bones. Three months. The fact that they'd come from Chaeronea in Greece did not excite me.

But this find does.

Just imagine digging him up, using that little brush to clear away layer...

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers everywhere! I hope and pray one day we'll have a world where motherhood is safe for all women, no matter where they live.

This Mother's Day I'd like to honor midwives. Both of my births were attended by midwives, in part because the hospital model of childbirth just didn't work for me. Having a doctor show up at the last second, waiting for him to get his act together before you can push your baby out, all the drapes, steel tools and scissors, all the shouting...

Remembering to breathe

Who cares if it's May 7? Last night it snowed. It had melted by the time the sun was high in the sky, but it's still nippy with the possibility of more snow ahead.

Ah, yes, springtime in the Rockies.

Tulips do look pretty in the snow. And so does my lily of the valley, which is just beginning to bloom. Those flowers are so precious and tiny. I have to get down on my knees in the grass to sniff them. I'm sure that makes a lovely sight.

Out in the veggie garden, I have six-inch high broccoli plant...

Shackling bill passes Senate!

Just a quick and dirty update here...

Senate Bill 193, the shackling bill, passed out of the Senate this morning on a unanimous vote. All 35 members of the State Senate voted in support of it with no debate.

Now on to the House, where it has to make it through a Judiciary hearing and three readings on the House floor — in a week.

I'm ecstatic! So many people told me this couldn't be done this year. I'm so glad I didn't listen to them! There are women whose lives will be less traumatized and whos...

Shackling bill on the Senate floor UPDATED

The anti-shackling bill, which some of you are calling Megan's Law in honor of Megan Rawlings from Unlawful Contact, goes to the floor of the Colorado Senate for debate today. I'm pretty certain it will pass second reading today and third reading tomorrow.

Here's the only hitch: The bill has drawn the attention of people on both sides of the abortion debate, both the pros and the antis, so I expect a bit of a tussle in terms of the bill's language, which is neutral.

I've tried hard to shelter t...

Shackling bill on the Senate floor

The anti-shackling bill, which some of you are calling Megan's Law in honor of Megan Rawlings from Unlawful Contact, goes to the floor of the Colorado Senate for debate today. I'm pretty certain it will pass second reading today and third reading tomorrow.

Here's the only hitch: The bill has drawn the attention of people on both sides of the abortion debate, both the pros and the antis, so I expect a bit of a tussle in terms of the bill's language, which is neutral.

I've tried hard to shelter t...

Just another manic Man-Titty Monday

Me see, me want.

How about a bit of man-chest perfection to kick off your week?

But before we lose ourselves in lust, I want to thank you all for your wonderful comments on my last blog. I got quite caught up in some important planning that needed to be done and didn't get around to answering you. Sorry! I try very hard to answer each and every post, but that just didn't happy this time around.

But I did read them all. Thank you!!!

I am over the moon about the contract, of course, and have to kee...