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Huffing, Puffing, Posting, Flogging, and Flacking: I've Been Talking Back |
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Last year, I started my blog, http://www.sivesiftingsrebeccasivetalksback.com, so that I could share my thoughts about the hot topics-of-the-day.
Lo and behold, along came healthcare reform. Talk about hot topics: Almost from the start, women's health, most particularly women's reproductive health, moved front and center in the healthcare-reform action.
To capture my view of this action, I've put pen to paper, sometimes furiously, ever since.
Well, all the action crested this week with Congressional passage of the President's healthcare reform bill, and the President's signing of an Executive Order, confirming The Hyde Amendment's application to healthcare reform and making passage of the bill possible.
My blogposts about healthcare reform, and its implications for women, have regularly appeared in The Huffington Post and RH Reality Check.
You may find them here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-sive and here: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/4103.
My blogposts have also been picked-up by: The Daily Kos, Real Clear Politics/Best of the Blogs, Medical News Today, Beltway Blips, Blogrunner, WTTW Chicago Tonight, Buzzflash, on a lot of Facebook pages and in a lot of twitterers' tweets, on numerous websites of political, women's, and health organizations, and, last but not least, (it's interesting, I'll say that), by some really weird websites, blogs, and content-aggregators. But, no-one has knocked on my door yet, so that's a good thing!
Today, I share with you this perspective of mine--on this American ordeal, not-to-say, American dilemma, for two reasons: First, because American women's right to healthcare turned out to be the crux of the matter for the President and the Congress.
In this context, I hope my blogposts will give you some sense of that struggle, from the perspective of a thinker, writer, organizer, and speaker, from an activist over the course of a lifetime.
Second, I share my perspective because these writings of mine reflect my ongoing commitment to you, my clients, colleagues, and friends: My ongoing committment to advocate, personally, for what you believe, too: The world needs to be a better place for American women and their families.
If I may help you in your work to achieve this goal, I hope you will be in-touch.
Best wishes.
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