by Laura | Oct 28, 2010 | Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related Political issues
More on the governor’s race in Oklahoma with Republican candidate Mary Fallin and Democratic candidate Jari Askins. Fallin has claimed motherhood is what makes her more qualified, and she’s received push back on this. Good Morning America took up the...
by Laura | Oct 25, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree-Related Political issues
In previous posts I’ve lamented about how women political and judicial candidates get criticized for not being mothers–somehow being childfree makes them less qualified. Well, the issue is up again with the current Oklahoma governor’s race....
by Laura | Sep 16, 2010 | Childfree-Related Political issues
Watching Christine O’Donnell win this the primary in Delaware brought to mind other conservative pro-life women who ran in the primaries, some of whom are now going to be in the mid term elections. But let’s start with O’Donnell. Not only pro...
by Laura | Sep 10, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related Political issues
I am pleased to see that Australia’s Julia Gillard gained enough to support to form a minority government and remains Australia’s prime minister. Back while she was campaigning she got major flack for being “deliberately barren.” The treatment...
by Laura | Jun 25, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related Political issues
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, is being “heralded as …the vanguard of a new breed of ‘pro-women, pro-life’ feminists” in the mold of Sarah Palin’s conservative pro-life agenda. And she’s not...