Comparing abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, Tennessee legislature...
Just a week after the state’s GOP-heavy House voted to punish Memphis for removing statues that glorified the Confederacy, Tennessee’s mostly-Republican state Senate voted Monday to support the...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Sues Indiana Over Outrageous New Anti-Abortion Law
A new Indiana anti-abortion law “unique and burdensome obligations,” according to a lawsuit filed Monday by Planned Parenthood. Earlier this month, an appeals court blocked portions of a Pence-era...
View ArticleRick Scott Permanently Funds Anti-Abortion "Fake Clinics" With Your Money
If someone told you that taxpayer money was being used to fund InfoWars, the Enquirer, or another fake news outlet, I image you’d be pretty ticked. However, at least---for the most part---they are...
View ArticleWhat's the matter with Iowa? Anti-choice Republicans.
Republicans know the law; they just don’t care. Nowhere is that truer than with respect to reproductive rights. No matter how many times they lose in court, no matter how absurdly unconstitutional...
View ArticleThe Republican Plan to Overturn 'Roe': Making Pregnancy a Punishment
For two decades, Republican legislators have passed increasingly restrictive abortion regulations. The strategy is working, and has slowly chipped away at abortion rights. Lawsuits in response to these...
View ArticleACLU, Planned Parenthood sue Trump over rules to take family planning out of...
Three national reproductive rights groups are suing the Trump administration to protect Title X, the nation’s birth-control and reproductive health program.The two lawsuits filed Wednesday—one by...
View ArticleSC Democrats kill SC Senate GOP's abortion ban with days-long filibuster!
It was a rare legislative win for Democrats in a state where Republicans have had control of both the House and Senate since the turn of the 21st century.I know that every state’s rules about...
View ArticleThe Trump-Pence Theocracy Continues to Take Shape, As "Abstinence" Is...
Between 2007 and 2015, the rate of teen pregnancies in the United States dropped approximately 50%. Much of the credit for that goes to federal and state educational programs that teach teenagers about...
View ArticleHarassment and Threats Against Abortion Providers Triple In One Year Under...
In one instance, a member clinic received a phone call in which the caller stated “I will do anything and everything to stop the unmitigated murders of fetuses.I will do anything to...
View ArticleIowa's New Abortion Law Will Kill Women
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds last Friday signed the nation’s most restrictive abortion legislation into law. The law prohibits abortion clinics in Idaho from performing abortions once a fetal heartbeat...
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CO-Gov: Jared Polis (D) Rolls Out His Plan To Protect & Expand Women's...
Received this e-mail today from Rep, Jared Polis’ (D. CO) gubernatorial campaign:We see it in the news every day. Republicans are trying to close down Planned Parenthood, the Trump administration is...
View ArticleCrisis pregnancy centers are manipulative and dangerous. Trump is sending...
As someone who has worked in the abortion rights and funding movements for the past six years, there’s a lot that enrages me about the current landscape of abortion access and sexual and reproductive...
View ArticleIA-Gov. Gov. Reynolds (R), "We’re Not Slowing Down" After Signing Country’s...
In case you didn’t know, this happened last week:Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law on Friday a bill outlawing abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which often occurs at six weeks and...
View ArticleNew study finds that 27 major U.S. cities are now 'abortion deserts,' thanks...
Abortion has been legal for 45 years, but constant anti-choice attacks on reproductive rights have had devastating effects on people’s ability to exercise their right to terminate an unwanted...
View ArticleLouisiana passes bill barring abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. But ban...
With the help of numerous Democrats, Louisiana legislators have given final approvalby huge margins to a bill that would put the most stringent restrictions on abortion in any state. The bill was...
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This War Again?
Reringing this sadly evergreen alarm in response to the terrible news this morning that the Trump administration is planning to defund Planned Parenthood — and indeed any clinics or women’s health...
View ArticleNew class-action lawsuit says AT&T is 'punishing women for being pregnant'
Many of us are familiar with the fact that the United States is woefully behind on providing paid parental leave, but that is just one part of a larger system where America punishes people for their...
View ArticleIt's official! Ireland has repealed the Eighth Amendment, ending 35-year ban...
Since 1983, Ireland has had some of the harshest reproductive rights laws in the Western world. On Friday, voters came from far and wide to change that. Just moments ago, the Irish government confirmed...
View ArticleSaturday Night Loser’s Club, Vol. DCXLIII: Repeal in Ireland Edition
From The Guardian today, on their live blog on the vote to repeal Ireland’s constitutional amendment from 1983 that equated fetal rights with the rights of pregnant women (and thus effectively...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women who are fed up, taking action, and saving what...
The record-breaking numbers of women running for office and winning elections are the legacies of all the women in history who have been powerful and outspoken or held down but not silenced. Women are...
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