A Day Late, but Always Timely

Many thanks to Marrtha Knits, knitting friend in Brooklyn.  She wondered if I'd seen this candy heart and message from Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood. 

Nope...my contributions go to local PPs rather than National (we all make choices)--especially with more and more clinics and providers around the country under seige.  It was Alabama this past summer where a massive effort by anti-choicers once again threatened staff in Birmingham. 

Last week, another alert from the Feminist Majority about intensifed attacks  on women and the privacy of our medical records--in Kansas:

... subpoenas follow the grand jury’s demands for the medical records of some 2,000 women from Dr. George Tiller’s Wichita clinic. Dr. Tiller’s attorneys appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, arguing that turning over the records would violate patients’ privacy. The Kansas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the subpoena while it reviews the case. 

Well, some of us do know what's the matter with Kansas, where you-know-who won Republican seal of approval in the recent primary.  I hasten to add that all is not as it should be right here in New York City, blue-state's center (?). I might be arrested--at least shooed off, by the N.Y. Police Department if I attempted to distribute free condoms in front of a high school.  (But not at Columbia University as we did last May.)

I'd be interested in hearing from readers about how you make decisions about giving dollars for choice and related issues of Safe Sex.   Requests from organizations, a friend's plea, a memory?

In honor of National Condom Week, a close-up of my newly-knitted Condom Amulet, "Old Stockings 'R Us,"  (vintage buttons, pantyhouse, 2 stockings).

Photo by Kay Gardiner, Mason-Dixon Knitting as we plotted Knitty City exhibit. Her iconic Condom Amulet creation, "Ballband Key Chain" appears HERE and on Ravelry, new and growing knit and crochet community site.

Comments

[marianne]

Every time I read about condoms on your blog, I wish I actually had the need for one! (I think I have one worn out, packaged condom in my nightstand drawer from the old days.) Yeah, it calls to me like the pages of a favorite photo album. ;)

My money? My donations go from hand to human hand. I personally choose to give to others in need rather than organizations. Or, the hands of those soliciting for organizations. xoxo Marianne

[Martha]

I don't think that's a candy heart. I think it's a condom heart. Perhaps it's edible...

[naomi dagen bloom]

yes, martha,

my spouse noticed the same flaw in my vision. guess that's what happens to us conceptual artists: we're often fuzzy on the details! thanks, naomi