Submit a Story!

MOMOCRATS Latest Blog Posts

Add as Favorite Claim Blog Help

http://momocrats.typepad.com/momocrats/ - Raising the Next Generation of Blue

Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.

If you're the owner of MOMOCRATS, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.

The MOMocrats want you to Vote Sarah!
Yeah, we know what you're thinking... but really, do you think we would ban all Sarahs from getting our votes? That would be like assuming all Husseins are somehow bad. A vote for Sarah is a vote for a friend, a colleague, a fellow MOMocrat! We want to send Sarah to the Winter Olympics! Sarah ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Et tu, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists?
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued new guidelines for pap smears, which screen for cervical cancer. Previously, they suggested beginning testing after becoming sexually active and testing annually starting in your twenties. Now, they say women in their 20s ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Go Read: US-China Tussles Over Currency Exchange
momocrats.typepad.com — You may have heard that next week President Obama will be visiting Asia, and significantly, the People's Republic of China. One big bone of contention is the way China pegs its Yuan (or RenMinBi) to the US Dollar. For a long time, it was at 8Y : $1USD. Currently it seems to be running 7:1. The ... (more) Go Read: US-China Tussles Over Currency Exchange
Go Read It: US Catholic Conference of Bishops' Hypocrisy on Federal Tax Dollars & the Stupak-Pitts Amendment
Not all Catholics believe the exact same thing. There are Catholics for Choice , Catholics who use contraception, and then...there's the US Conference on Catholic Bishops, which was an active, energetic force lobbying politicians to pass Stu-Pitts prior to the recent House vote on the ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

Dear Members of the House Who Voted for Stupak-Pitts,
 Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and accept the enclosed package. In it you will find my uterus. I believe you’ll see that the tag on the bottom says, “Please return to original owner, the United States House of Representatives, when not in use.”   Per those ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

BRUNNER SAYS U.S. HOUSE ACTION MOVES WOMEN'S RIGHTS BACKWARD
MOMocrats are happy to welcome back guest poster Ohio Secretary of State and Senate Candidate Jennifer Brunner as she comments about the Stu-Pitts action in the House and the untenable effect it has on women's right to access legal health care. She sent this official statement, which we are ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

It's a Mad World in the US House of Representatives when it comes to Health Care Reform
The US House of Representatives just asked women to take a sucker punch in the ovaries , "Sacrifice your fair access to LEGAL health care for the GREATER GOOD." I think women have been sacrificing too much for too long for the greater good. Elected officials -- put in office, by the way, most ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

The Stu-Pitts of Congress, and Women's Health Care From the Waist Up
Forgive me if I sound a little bitter despite being deeply moved by the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act this past weekend in the House. It IS a huge achievement and one-third of what we need to get the bill to President Obama to sign. I'm proud and grateful so many wonderful elected ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

I'm still waiting for those defenders of children to defend them.
Image by andyofne via Flickr Really, this just goes beyond the pale. Picketing the school where our President's children attend with racist, threatening, hateful signs? Fred Phelps ’ Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that goes around the country staging anti-gay rallies at some of ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

A Word on Gay Marriage
As everyone celebrates the one-year anniversary of the historic election of President Obama a lot of us, especially here in California are sadly reminded of another anniversary this week. The anniversary of the passing of Proposition 8 , which was made even more painful after a similar vote ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!

"Off With Their Heads!" (Hey, They Aren't Using Them Anyway)
I'm sure by now most MOMocrats readers have seen the video of Billionaires for Wealth serenading Bill McInturff as he speaks to America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). But, if you haven't yet witnessed the spectacle, please feast your eyes: I saw the video on Rachel Maddow. ...
MommyBlips: vote it up!