The Doomsday Scenario for Reproductive Rights if Trump is Elected
It's easy to complain on social media that Clinton isn't liberal enough (or is too liberal), that she can't be trusted, that she should have managed her emails differently. When it's time to cast a...
View ArticleI support a woman's right to choose, 100%.
This has been an ugly election season. The vitriol, bullying and misogyny at the top of the Republican ticket (and down much of the GOP line) is impacting all of us in many unseen ways. Donald Trump...
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One Final Plea to Save Abortion. From an Abortion Provider.
Hillary will protect abortion rights.This election has me on edge. You see, everything I’ve worked for all my life is on the line, not to mention the future of this democracy. Some of you may or may...
View ArticleHillary Gives us a Chance. Final Nov 7th Thoughts from a Former Berner.
Until I went into the voting booth last week I wasn’t entirely sure who I would be checking for the Presidential race – Clinton; or Stein as a protest vote since I still ache with anger and...
View ArticleIs an IUD Women's Only Hope for Surviving a Trump Presidency?
Women are now resorting to intrauterine devices (IUDs) to protect themselves during a Trump presidency. The stunning results have left women, people of color, the disabled, transgendered folks, and...
View ArticleGYNOCOLOGICAL REFUGEES!
Why have so many American women become so afraid during the past week? Is there any unspoken rationale behind this crippling frozen dread? Or is it just another of those unfounded female...
View ArticleOrrin Hatch says he will oppose getting rid of the filibuster ! Hope lives on...
Our ability to stop their legislation largely depends upon being able to use the filibuster. Trump will be able to use executive orders as President Obama did. He will have wide latitude in foreign...
View ArticleLest we forget: Anniversary of domestic terror at Planned Parenthood clinic...
It was only a year ago, on November 27, 2015, that we heard and saw on breaking news reports that an attack was taking place at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. xYouTube VideoBy the time...
View ArticlePrepare your daughters to re-fight the same battles their grandmothers...
I have been banging this drum for a long time, but the threat of a Trump (or God forbid, a Pence) administration adds new urgency. At the end of the day, the issue comes down to something real simple....
View ArticleTrump News Today : The Home of the Resistance
In business, Donald Trump loved to use bankruptcy as a means to loot workers of their income and shares of stock. Now, he proposes to apply that same skill to the public with Medicare. Welcome to Trump...
View Article5 Ways to Defend Reproductive Rights Under a Trump Presidency
A Trump presidency could mean a rollback of hard-won reproductive rights, and perhaps even an end to Roe vs. Wade. For this to occur, President-Elect Trump needs just two Supreme Court nominees. The...
View ArticleHouse Rs Won't Investigate Trump's Finances But Double $ for their Planned...
As should surprise absolutely no one, House Republicans—who never shied away from a Clinton scandal (real or imagined) to investigate—have no appetite for investigating the web of conflicts of interest...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
This seems like a good time to be reading up on how to survive the anti-feminist backlash. It’s painful to contemplate what might have been:Policies for paid family leave, more affordable college, and...
View ArticleOhio gov might veto heartbeat bill and sign forced-birthers' real desire: a...
Irin Carmon at NBC News has an interesting take on the so-called “heartbeat” abortion bill that made its way to Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s desk this week, as my colleague Liz Birge has reported. If Kasich...
View ArticleAbortion Under Attack: New Anti-Abortion Laws in Trump's America
President-Elect Donald Trump—the man the Washington Post lambasted for taking five different abortion positions in three days—has not even been inaugurated, but states are already moving to ban...
View ArticleStudy: Abortion Doesn't Cause Mental Health Problems--But Being Denied an...
Yet another study has confirmed that abortion does not harm women’s mental health. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, may be the final nail in the coffin for so-called post-abortion syndrome....
View ArticleJudge Rules Doctors Can Refuse to Treat Women Who Have Had Abortions: What...
Doctors are free to discriminate against transgender patients and women who have had abortions, Texas Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in a federal district court ruling. The ruling blocked a...
View ArticleSchumer implies that nominees' stance on abortion might keep them off the...
Reproductive rights advocates are again facing major fights in 2017, both at the federal and state levels. The most crucial battle will be over whomever Pr*sident Donald Trump nominates to fill...
View ArticleIn 2 minutes, Cory Booker shows the GOP what #Resistance looks like as he...
In response to the GOP’s plan to defund Planned Parenthood, Senator Cory Booker (Dem-NJ) knocked it out of the park this week during a press conference. Here is transcript followed by the short and...
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Meet the women running 240 miles to raise money for Planned Parenthood
Alison Mariella Désir, the founder of the Harlem Run crew and contributor to Women’s Running magazine, announced last week that she and three other women are running from New York City’s Harlem to...
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