Picks of the Week from the Daily Kos Community, Jan. 19 (and yet another...
Greetings, fearless members of the Daily Kos Community! Hope you didn’t miss these Picks too much while I was on vacation last week (no worries if you didn’t notice). We’re back with a LOT of great...
View ArticleNew Threats to Reproductive Rights Loom on the 46th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
[WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 22, 2019] On the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision the Population Institute is releasing its seventh annual 50-State Report Card on Reproductive Health and...
View ArticleForced-birthers lose a round in Iowa as state judge strikes down 'fetal...
On the 46th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, reproductive rights activists won a victory Tuesday when an Iowa state judge struck down a 2018 law...
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This Week in the War on Women: Madam Speaker Edition
This week we learned (if we didn’t already know) why Republicans worked so hard to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming Speaker of the House. And in the process of ending the government shutdown Pelosi...
View ArticleMMFA: "Right-wing media are flat-out lying about later abortions being...
Media Matters For America has the best (and most accurate) headline on this! Right-wing media are flat-out lying about later abortions being "infanticide"Democrats have recently pushed measures at the...
View ArticleThe fate of reproductive rights in the U.S. will be decided by five men this...
Next week (by Thursday, February 7, to be exact), the United States Supreme Court will be faced with a basic decision: whether to allow a lower court’s ruling—diametrically at odds with the High...
View ArticleKellyanne Conway caught on camera threatening to perform abortions on women...
We laugh at her for her invention of “alternative facts” and cheer whenever a TV anchor gets the better of her. She was pulled back some from making public appearances because her sneering glibness...
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Whether "Medicare for All" or "Medicare for More", there's another big nut...
In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion except to save the life of the woman, or if the pregnancy arises from incest or...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
The anti-#MeToo backlash seems to have settled on a preferred talking point. For instance, the Toronto police ruled out charges after 30 women reported sexual assault by a former RCMP doctor. "The...
View ArticleIllinois set to expand abortion rights in contrast to its neighboring states
With New York passing the Reproductive Health Act into law, Illinoisis set to be the next state to expand abortion rights in the face of Roe v. Wade either being severely neutered or overturned...
View ArticleWoman has stillborn baby while in ICE custody, officials respond that it's...
A Honduran woman who was six months pregnant went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody last week. In a statement, immigration...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: We belong here and won't be written out of...
March is Women’s History Month offically, although every month is women’s history month here at WOW. Twice a month on Saturday, officebss posts WOW2 Women Trailblazers and Events in Our History. The...
View ArticleMiscarriages of women in ICE custody nearly double following Trump...
Immigrants rights advocates warned that the Trump administration’s 2017 policy change allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain more pregnant women would have devastating...
View ArticleTennessee House passes 'fetal heartbeat' bill, as Republicans block incest,...
Although the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down laws in North Dakota and Arkansas barring abortions after a “fetal heartbeat” is heard, and an Iowa state judge did the same to a similar law in...
View ArticleGeorgia Democrat responds to anti-abortion bill with 'Testicular Bill of Rights'
Georgia Republicans are at it again, trying to control women’s bodies through the law—but this time, state Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick is replying in kind with her “Testicular Bill of Rights” showing what...
View ArticleCourt rules that while women have a right to abortion, doctors have no right...
In an 11-6 decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Ohio can cut off $1.5 million in funding for all 27 Planned Parenthood-affiliated health clinics in the state because three of...
View ArticleWith sights set on the Supreme Court overturning Roe, Arkansas and Utah pass...
Another day, and another couple of state legislatures decide to pass abortion cut-offs that supporters know won’t pass constitutional muster unless the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. This...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 3/16/2019
Once in a while you run across a story that’s a perfect storm of racism, sexism, and authoritarian cruelty. Scott Lloyd at the Office of Refugee Resettlement was keeping a spreadsheet tracking the...
View ArticleJust try and take away contraception and WOMEN will come after your Viagra ..
The Rachel Maddow Show last night was horrifying and the gatekeeper, a Trump apointee over migrant girls pregnant as young as 11 or 12 is just beyond nuts. ( Read an article he wrote in 2015).There is...
View ArticleTrump Administration Omitted Women's Reproductive Rights from the Annual...
In 2017, the State Department didn’t include a section on Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Annual Human Rights Report. The State Department made no announcement that this change was to appear in the...
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