I know that there’s at least one Stinquer who is a NRA member, and a few more who like shooting guns, but really?  And I thought pink cleats on NFL players was whoring out.

Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  The P-22 Hope Edition has an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America’s top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales.

I can’t make shit like this up. I think parting ways with Komen is about the best thing to happen to Planned Parenthood in ages.

The documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. opens tomorrow. Talk about good timing.

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Because I’ll start stroking out if I talk at length about the pink-plastering Komen Foundation deciding they can’t fund breast cancer testing programs at Planned Parenthood clinics, yet I can’t quite totally pivot away from the Department of Lady Bits to the Department of Soul Train Memories tonight, I present to you my nominee for Stinque’s Shero of the Day:

To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.

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I think we can safely predict who is not getting laid tonight, or for a long time in the future.

A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Greg Fultz, 35, to immediately take down a billboard on a main street in Alamogordo that implies his ex-girlfriend had an abortion.  The woman sought a protective order to remove the billboard, which shows Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, “This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!”

Holding aside his abuse of the English language, Fultz’s ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. Her attorney told reporters it was irrelevant whether or not her client had ever been pregnant.

[SF Chronicle]

Last Friday the Kansas Legislature approved a bill that would prohibit health insurance companies from offering their customers coverage for abortion procedures, unless the woman’s life was endangered by continuing the pregnancy.

GOP Representative Pete DeGraaf, who also is a pastor, called for the prohibition even in cases where a woman is pregnant as a result of rape.  A female colleague of Rep. DeGraaf argued that this would be further punishment of a rape victim, to which he replied:

“We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?”

She responded, “And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?”

DeGraaf retorted, “I have a spare tire on my car.  I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.”

If any Stinquers want to take a break from smashing their heads on their desks, DeGraaf’s Web site lists his office number as 785-296-7693, his home phone as 316-777-0715, and his e-mail as pete.degraaf@house.ks.gov.  You’ll also note that the first-term legislator has sponsored a bill to create “covenant marriages” in Kansas.

[Kos]

“After jettisoning controversial legislative language narrowing the definition of rape for the purposes of abortion law, House Republicans are attempting a backdoor maneuver to ensure that solely victims of ‘forcible rape’ are eligible for federal funding if they seek abortions.” Forcible rape doesn’t include statutory rape. Statutory rape includes incest. [Mother Jones, via Raw Story]

With all the attention lately to birthers and afterbirthers, we may have lost track as to what is going on with the pre-birthers. Remember, the 2010 election was about  how people don’t want the government to get between them and their doctor.

Oh, wait.

Well, never fear, Stinque has your War on Lady-Bits weekly update:

In Louisiana, a state representative who last year had proposed a $1,000 payment to poor women getting sterilized coupled with tax incentives for “college-educated, higher-income people to have more children,” has introduced a bill that would rename the medical procedure of abortion as “feticide,” and make anyone – including a pregnant woman – guilty of a felony sentence of 15 years in prison, for any death of a fetus.  He explained his reasoning for the bill with this gem:

“I think the main difference between 1973 and now is that technology that we have. We can peer into the uterus and see an image that even my 4-year-old would say, you know, that’s a baby.”

Alrighty. Let’s move along to another part of the country, shall we? These are just the highlights from the past week or so.   According to Slate, 916 measures regulating reproductive rights have been introduced in 49 states since the start of the year. Read more »

“It’s not like I used slang,” said [Florida state rep Scott] Randolph, who actually got the line from his wife. He said Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus.

Florida pages must be at least 12 years old.

[St. Petersburg Times]