Two New Studies Show Shocking Harmful Effects of Anti-Abortion Regulations,...
Right-wing media outlets and anti-choice activists continue to argue that abortion harms women, and that clinic regulations protect everyone. But an avalanche of research shows that abortion improves...
View ArticleIdaho legislature passes bill mandating that women be told their medication...
On Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s desk is a bill mandating that the state Department of Health & Welfare provide abortion providers and their clients with information about an unproven and medically...
View ArticleThought the politics of the Hyde Amendment couldn't get dumber? Guess again.
Yesterday I noted that the GOP is attempting to tack on additional "abortion restriction" language into the proposed ACA stabilization portion of the "must-pass" Omnibus Spending Bill set to be voted...
View ArticleCan Anti-Choicers Pretend to Be Medical Providers? SCOTUS to Hear Fake Clinic...
More than 2,700 fake medical clinics—sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers—around the country use deceptive tactics to talk women out of abortion. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral...
View ArticleThanks to taxpayer funding, 'crisis pregnancy centers' keep lying to women...
At Think Progress, Amanda Michelle Gomez writes about Savannah Low, a pro-choice advocate who mistakenly volunteered for a crisis pregnancy center in Sherman, Texas. These centers are propaganda...
View ArticleOhio Republicans push 100% abortion ban that could mean death penalty for...
Ohio Republicans are relentlessly pushing to limit women’s reproductive rights, proposing yet another anti-abortion law—this time, a complete ban on abortion with the threat of jail time for women and...
View ArticleICE already detains pregnant women, and now it wants to detain even more
According to a new memo signed by acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan, the Trump administration has announced that it is ending a policy that generally released...
View ArticleFederal court bans Trump from blocking abortions for unaccompanied...
At last, a major development in one of the more obscene legal battles of the past year: On Friday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Trump administration to stop...
View ArticleReligious Republican states inform women abortion can be reversed
In the religious war against women being waged by Republicans in Congress and state legislatures, there are unlimited absurdities and atrocities in the crusade to deny women their constitutional human...
View ArticleStudy Slays Another Anti-Choice Lie: Abortions Don't Cause Substance Abuse
Terminating a pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of drug or alcohol abuse in the five years following an abortion, according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs....
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 4/7/2018
One of the scary parts of life in the Trump era is how the boundaries of acceptable behavior keep shifting, and always in the wrong direction. For a long time, anti-choice folks made a pretense of...
View ArticleScott Lloyd's job is to help refugees, but he's spent it blocking abortion...
Scott Lloyd came to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with“a history in the anti-abortion movement,”according to the New York Times. “Before he joined the Trump administration, he worked as a...
View ArticleTrump's worst judicial pick yet appears to favor school segregation and...
Louisiana’s Wendy Vitter is giving professional racist Thomas Farr of North Carolina a run for his money in the contest for Most Deplorable Judicial Nominee. She’s not sure that the Supreme Court got...
View ArticleMore Anti-Choice Lies: Doctors Call 'Abortion Reversal' Study Unethical,...
A study purporting to prove the effectiveness of so-called “abortion reversal” has this week received widespread coverage in the fundamentalist Christian and anti-choice press. Doctors have raised...
View ArticleFighting for Trump—and against women’s rights, Diane Black shows off her GOP...
Hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans may have to bear witness to the new campaign ad for Republican House Representative Diane Black. She’s running for TN governor this year and the frightening ad...
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This Week In the War On Women: Matters of Perception
The WOW links this week brought to mind a well-worn feminist trope I’d never been exposed to until my daughter went off to college and undertook to educate her old Ma with some of her assigned readings...
View ArticleBig win: Federal appeals court rejects Ohio's attempt to defund Planned...
The conservative-leaning Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears federal appeals from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, isn’t usually the source of good news. But on Wednesday, the Sixth...
View ArticleWill Anti-Choice Views Die With Older Generations? New Survey Finds Public...
Abortion views have remained remarkably consistent over time. A majority of Americans support legal abortion, but many think there should be some limits on the procedure. It’s a fact that has long...
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OH-Gov: Richard Cordray (D) & Betty Sutton (D) Slam OH GOP's Attacks On...
Received this e-mail today from Lt. Governor nominee, former Rep. Betty Sutton (D. OH), on behalf of the Richard Cordray (D. OH)/Betty Sutton (D. OH) gubernatorial ticket:Betty Sutton (D. OH) I could...
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ID-Gov: Planned Parenthood Endorses Paulette Jordan (D) For Governor
Received this e-mail today from former Idaho House Representative Paulette Jordan’s (D. ID) gubernatorial campaign:I am proud to stand with women and families across Idaho in this campaign for...
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