Slumgullion #48

Just a few good links. That's all you need, right?

Bush cuts outpatient Medicaid services -- You heard about this parting gift from our Commander 'n' Thief? The Wonk Room at Think Progress has the details:

After arguing that legislation to cut over-payments to private insurers would “harm beneficiaries by taking private health plan options away from them,” President Bush, on Friday, “narrowed the scope of services that can be provided to poor people under Medicaid’s outpatient hospital benefit.”

In which the Netherlands endangers reproductive freedom -- Sylvia at Problem Chylde writes about a proposed bill that wants any woman deemed unfit to parent to be forced to take contraception for two years or any children she bears will be taken away from her at birth. I followed one link backward from Sylvia to a column for the Toronto Star to a blog post at Disaboom -- isn't it nice to know someone at a major daily reads a crip site?

Where neurodiversity meets feminist theory -- Lindsay at Autist's Corner has a three part series where she assesses an article by Kristin Bumiller titled "Quirky Citizens: Autism, Gender and Reimagining Disability" in the summer issue of the women's-studies journal Signs. Interesting writing from a blogger I hadn't found until now.