How Abortion Bans Will Cost Taxpayers Billions
Abortion bans won’t just cost women their lives and their dreams. They will also cost taxpayers billions of dollars in healthcare costs for unplanned pregnancies, welfare and other government benefits,...
View ArticleMissouri health officials refuse to renew license of state's last remaining...
Like many other Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the nation, the nonprofit Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood in St. Louis provides a range of direct medical care and family...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Every so often, there’s a story that’s a prefect catch-22 of patriarchy. This one is just….WTF?Joseph Irby was arrested for ramming his estranged wife’s car and running her off the road. And then:A...
View ArticleNon-binary activist asked about trans inclusive reproductive health. Julián...
On Saturday, 20 of the 2020 presidential hopefuls participated in a forum on reproductive rights. Planned Parenthood hosted the forum, which took place at the University of South Carolina, and...
View ArticleWhat do 63% of young voters want more than simply defeating Trump?...
What are young voters looking for when it comes to 2020? According to the results of a new TargetSmart/Civiqs poll, it’s more than just defeating Donald Trump. In fact, what people want is simple: 63%...
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Kamala 2020--Improving Abortion Access and Black Maternal Health
Kamala Harris learned from her breast cancer researcher mother how seldom women are heard and respected in the health care system. Women of color face even greater inequities:She would come home mad,...
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This Week in the War for Women: Fighting-for- Independence-Well-Armed Edition
Readers may want to quick-scroll down for a fast notion of what’s here. Feel free to pick’n’choose, since it’s pretty long — my feelings won’t be hurt, and anyway you can always come back again later...
View ArticleProsecutors drop manslaughter charges against Alabama shooting victim whose...
Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old woman from Alabama, was charged with manslaughter by a grand jury after she was shot in the stomach. Her fetus died after she was shot by another woman during a fight.Now,...
View Article60 percent of Americans now support abortion rights — highest in nearly 25 years
It’s amazing what staring down the barrel of a Handmaid’s Tale-style dystopia can do.In the wake of some particularly draconian abortion laws recently passed by several mostly Southern states,...
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This Week in the War on Women
The long-overdue arrest of Jeffrey Epstein was a step in the right direction, but some of the media coverage is painful to watch, as they straw-grasp for euphemisms like “sex with underage women” to...
View ArticleBirth Strike!
I’m doing some reading before writing a significant idea post that will probably serve as jumping-off point for the book I am slllowllly working towards (The Woman Citizen). As part of that, I read...
View ArticleThe most important issue for Democrats in 2020? The courts
As the 2020 election season heats up, voters’ priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ranks as its top issues. Earlier this year, the...
View ArticleThis Week In the War On Women - July 20: Déjà Vu All Over Again Edition
Before we start, for a list of all this group’s Saturday diaries Jan 2019 onward: click HERE, the “wow1” tag. Everyone organizes their own as they choose, and the group contributes and helps! And...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: There is a new wave of Feminism! Organising for our...
It’s been a tough couple of years both personally and politically. On a personal level, I had serious health issues which, of necessity, required me to pull back from political organising and...
View ArticleMore than 52,000 activists call on Congress to prevent attacks on...
On a rainy but thankfully relatively cool summer morning in Washington, I joined People for the American Way to deliver more than 52,000 signatures to 11 members of the House, demanding support for the...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood, et al., sue Missouri over its unconstitutional eight-week...
Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Paul, Weiss—the private law firm that battled to legalize marriage equality—filed suit late Tuesday against Missouri’s latest draconian...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Casting my memory back to the Columbine massacre, when it felt like the world stopped, I can’t believe how we got to a place where mass shootings have become everyday news. There have been 17 mass...
View Article'Gag' rule blocking federal funds for abortion referrals will go forward...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday turned down Planned Parenthood’s request that it reverse its July decision allowing the Trump regime’s implementation of a gag rule against making abortion...
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Gagging Title X-funded groups is doing just what Trump regime hoped: Creating...
Two weeks ago the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, pending the outcome of litigation, the government could implement its rule barring Title X Family Planning Program monies from going to...
View ArticleThis Week in the War for Women: Dreaming of a Female President Edition
I was dreaming this several months ago, and I’m still dreaming it…Remarkably, there was a grand total of six women contending for our great nation’s highest office in this election. Although I’d...
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