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Black Kos, Week In Review
COMMENTARY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTIST AND INVENTORSByBlack Kos Editor, Sephius1You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be successful—unless, like Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, your goal in life is to...
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Our favorite stories from the Daily Kos Community
Well, this was one helluva week, wasn’t it? Living in this country is absolutely exhausting right now, in ways I don’t think many of us thought we’d ever encounter again. But somehow, day after day, we...
View ArticleMen - 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies
I just read this twitter thread from Gabrielle Blair.xIâÂÂm a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I've been listening...
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This Week in the War on Women: September 9-15, 2018
Lots of news this week, so let’s get right to it! Abuse and Harassment Not just pedophilia: abuse of adult women by Catholic priests alleged to be even more pervasive. It's all about...
View ArticleMO, AZ & MN-Sen: EMILY's List Helps These Women Win A Democratic Senate...
Received this e-mail today from EMILY’s List:New polls are in for three of our critical Senate races:MISSOURI: Claire McCaskill (D) is trailing Josh Hawley (R) by three points, 44% - 47%. ARIZONA:...
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This Week in the War on Women: 10/6/2018
As Sady Doyle put it: Reality now outstrips my feminist paranoia.Remember a thousand years ago, when the Orange Menace bragged on camera about “grabbing women by the pussy,” and Republicans all...
View ArticleLove and intimacy and other traps.
I have a very special animus towards those who use positive things to ruin people’s lives.Like priests who use religion to groom their victims. Leaders who use the language of women’s empowerment to...
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International Day of the Girl Child
Today is the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child, a small step in the right direction toward mobilizing human potential for the improvement of peoples' lives on a global scale. It is...
View ArticleA People’s History of Climate Adaptation: Women + LGBT + People of Color...
In episode 75 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons takes a journey with the Freedom to Breath bus tour on location in New Orleans. During his visit, Doug attends a town hall on women and minority groups...
View Article"Three States Get Ready to Vote on Abortion" and it's just now being...
I’m astounded and disgusted that the upcoming vote on ballot initiatives about abortion in these three states is just now being talked about on a national level. No doubt, some people in those states...
View ArticleComplaint says pharmacist denied medicine to miscarrying woman because of...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a complaint with the Meijer supermarket chain after a woman says a pharmacist refused to fill her prescription to treat and complete a miscarriage....
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: Down to the Wire
We’re down to the wire on what may be the most consequential election yet, the last chance to put a check on Drumpf and his band of misogynist crooks. Women have been resisting this administration...
View ArticleStates Quietly Pass Unconstitutional Abortion Laws
Amid high-profile coverage of elections in Texas, Florida, Georgia and other states, several states put referendums on the ballot that would radically change abortion laws. These laws remain...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: Hear Us Roar
Watching the Federalist Society welcome Brett Kavanaugh while Christine Blasey Ford’s family is hiding out from death threats, I was once again struck by how much depends on refusing to hear women....
View ArticleTrump's acting attorney general is a special breed of anti-abortion zealot
Donald Trump’s illegally installed acting attorney general is an anti-abortion extremist who is beyond the norm even for Trump’s administration of anti-abortion extremists, a deep dive by the Guardian...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Some time ago, there was an item in the WOW diary about a man who was sure his female friends were exaggerating about getting dick pics and harassment on dating sites. Finally he created a fake...
View ArticleSupreme Court's conservatives split on Planned Parenthood case, hinting at...
The Supreme Court’s conservatives just split on whether to hear a Planned Parenthood-related case. Four votes are required to grant a case, but just three of the conservative justices favored hearing...
View ArticleMichigan Moves to Ban Telemedicine Abortion, Despite Research Demonstrating...
Telemedicine abortion is a safe, affordable alternative to traditional clinic-based abortion procedures. Yet Michigan is working to ban abortion-related telemedicine. It’s a scientifically unsupported...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 2019
It’s hard to sum up 2018, in part because every year of the Trump administration feels like a couple of decades. Here’s one attempt at The Year of the Woman in review.The part that sticks with me most...
View ArticleThe US Maternal Mortality Rate is a Pro-Choice Issue
The U.S. maternal mortality rate is the worst in the developed world. While other nations have seen dramatic drops in deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S....
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