KY state Rep. trolls GOP with bill mandating wives' written consent for...
Since the Roe v. Wade decision prevented state laws outlawing abortion, the anti-choice movement has resorted to using legislation to add ridiculous and tedious steps before a patient can get an...
View Article4 Abortion News Stories You Might Have Missed in February
With Donald Trump in office and a Supreme Court in flux, Republicans may be closer than they have been in decades to undermining, and potentially even destroying, Roe vs. Wade. It's easy to become...
View ArticleUnder Trumpcare, women will pay for having sex one way or another
Unintended pregnancies way down? Abortions at a record low? Those are consequences of Obamacare you can kiss goodbye under Trumpcare. The Republican healthcare plan is all about taking away women’s...
View ArticleA Texas legislative effort to fund anti-abortion alternatives to Planned...
A major claim of the forced birthers seeking to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federally funded reimbursements for the health care it provides women is that other clinics will step in to fill...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 3/18/17
As the second month of the Trump/GOP administration ends, fatigue is starting to set in. It seems like we have to fight on every front at once. The best advice I’ve heard is to pick one or two issues...
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This Week in the War on Women: they only want to make the world better (for...
Yay, women aren’t facing loss of health care rights due to dismantling the ACA. But the process of deciding how to take the ACA apart emphasized what we already know about Republican men’s plans for...
View ArticleOklahoma lawmaker says "Rape and Incest are the Will of God" so abortion...
This Republican politician’s idea of what his god is like is all too indicative of how he thinks the world should work for women.Oklahoma State Representative George Faught, the author of a...
View ArticleI live for my children, I fight for the vulnerable, and now I am running for...
I have spent the past 15 years of my life as an educator and the past ten years helping refugees seeking political asylum in federal courts. I looked around me and said to myself, “if I can help the...
View ArticleIowa Anti-Abortionists Want to Take Women's Adulthood From Them (unless married)
As a man, I could never get pregnant. As a gay man, I am never going to get anyone pregnant. So, abortion is not a big issue for me except where I see the nexus of the right to control one’s own body...
View ArticleNo, Neil Gorsuch is Neither 'Highly Qualified' Nor a 'Nice Guy'
Nice guys don’t support discrimination against mothers.As debate over the relative merits of filibustering Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch swirls, some moderate Democrats have defended the judge as...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks Indiana law that Pence signed mandating ultrasounds 18...
A federal judge has blocked an Indiana law signed by Mike Pence in 2016 when he was still governor to force women to obtain an ultrasound at least 18 hours before getting an abortion. Judge Tanya...
View ArticleFebruary protests by the numbers: Anti-Trump resistance dominates protest...
A group of researchers who originally tallied protests crowds for the Women's Marches in late January extended their work into a monthly series tracking who's protesting where, and why. Washington Post...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
It was difficult watching a far-right judge confirmed for a stolen Supreme Court seat this week. On that and other issues, it’s tempting to think about the might-have-beens, if the we’d had someone in...
View ArticleCruel, Mind-Abducted Republican Lies (Oops! I mean “Alternative Facts”) and...
First, to introduce myself, I am William West, M.D. (aka “Beket” on Daily Kos), a physician trained and experienced long and extensively in the practice of both psychiatry and obstetrics and...
View ArticleN.J. congressman's suggested split of Planned Parenthood draws boos and...
New Jersey Rep. Leonard Lance, a Republican representing the 7th Congressional District, got a lot of flak at his 70-minute town hall gathering Wednesday. Although he was challenged on a number of...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: in science, in marathons, in art, and...
Today is the March for Science and I wanted to write more about women scientists but I’m having computer:DK dysfunction. So what you see tonight are the news items our dedicated WOW women entered into...
View ArticleFor Me, Tom Perez Is Blowing It.
I didn’t have a dog in the fight about who was going to Chair the DNC because I didn’t believe it mattered. Boy was I wrong. In the Age of Trump, my party is managing not to expand the base but to push...
View ArticleThe DNC supporting Heath Mello—in a general election—is exactly what a 50...
The front page of the Saturday New York Times features a “Dems in disarray”article describing the divide over Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez publicly supporting Heath Mello in the Omaha mayor’s race....
View ArticlePA Senator to Female Journalist on Bill to Cut Planned Parenthood? 'Alright,...
That is what Pennsylvania State Senator John Eichelberger told a female reporter after she questioned his plan to defund Planned Parenthood. The incident occurred after the Pennsylvania Senate Finance...
View ArticleIowa's Supreme Court blocks anti-abortion restrictions two hours after being...
On Friday, May 5th at 8:30 am, Republican Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed a number of extreme anti-abortion restrictions into law. The Republican-controlled state legislature’s new law only lasted...
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