Planned Parenthood wins another victory as federal judge permanently enjoins...
In yet another of this year’s victories for reproductive rights advocates, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday made permanent a temporary injunction he issued in June against a Florida...
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PA-Sen: EMILY's List Keeps On Doubling Down To Unseat War On Women Foot...
Received this e-mail today from EMILY’s List in support of Katie McGinty’s (D. PA) U.S. Senate campaign:Katie McGinty (D. PA)It's a fact: We can flip the Senate this year. But we have to buckle down...
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FL-Sen: Patrick Murphy (D) Keeps On Slamming Gov. Scott (R) & Little...
Received this e-mail today from Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D. FL) U.S. Senate campaign:Rep. Patrick Murphy (D. FL)Big news: a federal judge just BLOCKED Rick Scott’s extremist anti-abortion law here in...
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Abortion and birth control in Ohio would be prosecuted as murder under ballot...
Forced Birthers in Ohio want to amend the state constitution to classify all abortions of all types as “aggravated murder.” As if that’s not enough, the proposed measure would put birth control in the...
View ArticleFederal courts in Utah and Wisconsin give reproductive rights advocates two...
It’s been a year of victories for Planned Parenthood and anybody who believes in reproductive rights. This week brought two additional ones. On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson, a George H.W....
View ArticleTo perk up social conservative support, Trump picks noted forced-birther to...
Social conservatives have from the outset of his campaign been suspicious of Donald Trump’s bona fides in matters of concern to them. But slowly, slowly, they’ve come to accept his candidacy, choosing...
View ArticleUntrustworthy Trump works diligently to persuade suspicious forced-birthers...
Who really knows what Donald Trump’s views on abortion are?He’s been working hard to persuade the forced-birther brigades that he’s now on their side, despite his past statements. On Friday, as...
View ArticlePanel's bogus probe into fetal tissue hits $790,000. Next up: Intimidating a...
There’s something contemptible going on in the realm of fetal tissue research. But it’s not researchers who qualify for the description. It’s elected officials whose ultimate agenda is to shut them...
View ArticleStates are funding lying 'crisis pregnancy centers' out of welfare grants...
Bryce Covert and Josh Israel at ThinkProgress have posted an excellent piece on the outcome of their investigation into how seven states are diverting welfare money to forced-birther propaganda fronts...
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This Week in the War on Women
The headlines on Friday all referred to Trumps’“lewd” or “vulgar” comments. It wasn’t until I checked in here at dkos that I saw references to Trump bragging about sexual assault. Even Republicans...
View ArticleOklahoma Supreme Court tosses out yet another of the state's forced-birther laws
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has a long record of blocking or overturning anti-abortion laws in the state. Tuesday, it did it again, unanimously ruling that Senate Bill 642 is unconstitutional. The law...
View ArticleHow Senator Tim Kaine ultimately won the Vice Presidential Debate in 34 seconds
After watching Tuesday night’s Vice Presidential Debate, Republicans will say Governor Mike Pence won and Democrats will say Senator Tim Kaine won. But Kaine did win. By addressing women’s reproductive...
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Trump and Brat: preying on women
Dave Brat (VA-7) has yet to say a word against his pal, sexual predator Donald Trump (see my Daily Kos article on their long-standing ties). In fact, he recently held a rally to get out the vote for...
View ArticlePoland wants to outlaw abortions even when the fetus is so badly deformed...
Only two weeks after a massive nationwide strike and huge demonstrations in the streets by Poland’s women against a proposed law that would ban all abortions and punish women who managed to get one...
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Is Dave Brat a Fraidy Cat? Will he debate Eileen Bedell?
First published in Blue VirginiaAccording to the Culpeper Star-Exponent, Dave Brat (VA-7) has yet to respond to an invitation by the University of Richmond to debate Eileen Bedell; she has...
View ArticleThis 'most-liked' debate clip lifts Planned Parenthood and affirms a woman's...
The morning after the debate, the international healthcare organization for women and men, Planned Parenthood, released a clip from CNN showing a glimpse of how some undecided voters viewed the final...
View ArticlePaul Ryan drives a Mack truck over women’s health
The third and final presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump provide a teachable moment on the subject of abortion.Make that many teachable moments. When...
View Article"Virginia health board lifts contested rules on abortion clinics" - Thanks to...
(Reuters) - Virginia's Board of Health voted on Monday to remove contested regulations on abortion clinics that included meeting hospital-like building standards, a spokeswoman said. The 11-4 vote...
View ArticleIn another reproductive rights victory, federal judge blocks two of Alabama's...
Last May, the Alabama legislature passed and Gov. Robert Bentley signed a law to ban what supporters of such laws around the nation incendiarily call “dismemberment abortion” and physicians call...
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More reasons not to vote Trump: Mike Pence's view of a quasi-theocratic state...
Foundling wheels and drive-up abandonment have existed since the first public record rolls are just the first part of a GOP surveillance state of DNA tracking, registry and identity Big data.Baby...
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