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Texas cuts off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, federal judge blocks...
Huzzah to the temporary defeat of this guy's effort to cut off Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood. Texas moved to cut off Medicaid funding on Monday for clinics in the state affiliated with Planned...
View ArticleThe 2016 Presidential Election Will Decide The Fate of The Democratic...
Ian Millhiser, senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, reminds us that no matter how hard Democrats organize to get out the vote, how many petitions we sign, how many marches or meetings or...
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Forced-birthers push for fetal tissue donation ban that would wreck crucial,...
Fetal tissue research could mean big advances in fighting disease and bodily deterioration. But forced-birthers are determined to stop it. Pro-life. Yeah. Uh-huh. In the wake of the bogus scandal...
View ArticleThe Continuing Harassment of Planned Parenthood
When the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held its September 9 hearing called “Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider”—the first of several...
View ArticleArmor of Light -Go see this!
This Friday The Armor of Light is going to open in 20 cities across the nation. http://www.armoroflightfilm.com/... This documentary is asking us have a thoughtful conversation about guns and...
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CA law requires 'Pregnancy Crisis Centers' to offer abortion...
This is a big victory for pro-choice advocates who believe that it's a woman's right to make her own reproductive decisions. The state of California now requires sites called pregnancy crisis...
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Abortion Rights are Economic Rights
Take a look at the following map of the world of abortion laws around the world. The countries in green have relatively unrestricted abortion rights, countries in yellow have more restrictions,...
View ArticleIt's not just states under right-wing control where abortion clinics are...
Molly Redden has spotlighted another aspect of the relentless war on women’s reproductive rights. Anyone who follows such matters is well aware of the impact the forced-birthers are having on abortion...
View ArticleIs anyone surprised an anti-abortion Republican is afraid of research into...
To be honest, there are so many gob-smacking details in the story it's difficult to know which deserve the most mockery.Let's start by noting that the Missouri state senator involved is chair of the...
View ArticleState senator running for Missouri AG wants to stop study of 72-hour waiting...
Blocking research, concealing data or not collecting data in the first place is one of the many ways lawmakers can, and have, skewed opinion and policy. Take, for instance, the National Rifle...
View ArticleSupreme Court agrees to rule in case that could mean a de facto end of...
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take on its first major abortion case since 2007. It’s a Texas case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, and how the Court decides could have an impact on...
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Up to 240,000 Women Have Tried to Give Themselves Abortions in Texas Ever since Texas passed HB2 in 2013, the omnibus abortion law at the heart of a pivotal case the Supreme Court will review early...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Attorney General: Viability Begins at Conception! Outlaw Roe v....
North Dakota’s Attorney General and various Forced Birthers want to redefine the meaning of “viability” and by so doing cause Roe v. Wade to be overturned. In Roe, the United States Supreme Court...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
There’s a lot of health-related news this week. Don’t worry, I’m taking care of your blood pressure by saving some good news for the end.Reproductive Rights:A study suggests that at least 100,000...
View ArticleI hate fundamentalism
I’m angry, and I know I’m not the only one. My 8-year-old knows what happened in Paris last weekend. Kids and adults have the same question: Why? There are the facile answers: “They hate our freedoms.”...
View ArticleIn scathing ruling, 7th Circuit Court reams Wisconsin abortion law on...
In a 2-1 ruling Monday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling and shot down as unconstitutional a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to obtain admitting...
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Open thread for night owls: Planned Parenthood killer named. Media still not...
Terrorism against abortion clinics, and even Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide abortions, didn’t start Friday afternoon. Here’s The New York Times today:Since abortion became legal...
View ArticleMotives behind the Colorado Springs murders? If we have to ask—let's start...
A gunman who shot 11 people on Fridayv, killing three at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, is now in custody. Here is a recent press release from Vicki Cowart, President and CEO of...
View ArticleThe Headstone
The day before yesterday I went for a run. I was on vacation so I was running someplace new. My Strava route took me past a cemetery. Cemeteries are pretty good to run in, because the chances of you...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women 11/22-28/2015
Update: For anyone who has been out of touch, a shooter opened fire at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado yesterday. News is still breaking. Here is the latest from one hour ago: The suspect’s name...
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