This Week in the War on Women
I can remember a time — it wasn’t even that long ago — when even anti-choice Republicans agreed that there were some circumstances, such as rape or danger to the woman’s health, when abortion should...
View ArticleAbortion rate plummets to lowest level since the procedure became legal...
Campaign ActionBoth the rate and the overall number of abortions in the United States has plummeted to the lowest level on record since the safe medical procedure became legal across the country in...
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BETO to Iowa Steak Fry Crowd: Now's the Time to Tap into Our Courage, Not Our...
On the heels of Beto’s remarkable trip to Aurora, Colorado, where he met with the survivors of mass shootings as well as gun owners and which nomandates diaried here, Beto O’Rourke gave a barn burner...
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"I'm not afraid to shoot down [anti-]gun groups."
Thus spake Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase, whipping up her gun rights base in an effort to dodge an inevitable bullet: gun control legislation, which is favored by the vast majority of...
View ArticleHealth clinic closures put women’s lives at risk
What happens when clinics providing healthcare services to women close? Among other things, American women will needlessly die. That’s the horrifying conclusion from a recent study published in the...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Sorry, we’re running late today, so please post any additional links in comments. It’s been a wild week for all of us. As always, this diary is a team effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, Besame,...
View ArticleMother says Philadelphia cop gave her 'retaliatory' ticket because she was...
Caroline New and her baby, Amelia, went to the Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday afternoon. New was there to pick up her sister and have baby and aunt meet for the first time. Sadly,...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood announces brand-new, secretly built Illinois 'mega clinic'
Campaign ActionPlanned Parenthood just announced a brand new ‘mega clinic’ facility in southern Illinois, as first reported by CBS News. The news agency, which went behind the scenes at the clinic...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 9/29-10/5/2019: More Climate Edition
This was the week that Greta Thunberg was in the news all over, so I wanted to know other women who have been fighting for solutions to climate change. As Besame noted, there are many reasons for women...
View ArticleHow We Miss the Point on Abortion
Today marks the first anniversary of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, a lifetime Supreme Court Justice approved with less than a true majority vote in the U.S. Senate, and whose judicial record shows...
View ArticleTales of workplace discrimination flood Twitter after Warren shares story the...
Pregnancy discrimination: It’s real! As covered here at Daily Kos, Massachusetts Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren recently faced attacks from members of the far right, who did not...
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This Week in the War on Women
Conservative commentators thought they had a “gotcha” when records from 1971 didn’t explicitly say “we are firing Elizabeth Warren for being pregnant.” There were efforts to spin this into a narrative...
View ArticleKamala Harris doesn't mince words on healthcare and abortion bans in debate:...
In tonight’s Democratic Debate, California Sen. Kamala Harris erupted the conversation with an important point: Reproductive health has gotten almost no air time. While New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand...
View ArticleMissouri officials track women's periods on a spreadsheet
On day two of a weeklong hearing determined to shut down Missouri’s last abortion clinic, the state’s health director admitted he was using a spreadsheet to track the menstrual cycle of Planned...
View ArticleWriting his own chapter of The Handmaid's Tale, Missouri official tracked...
Campaign ActionMissouri officials backed by activist forced-birthers, and with the wholehearted support of Republican Gov. Mike Parsons, have been trying to shut down the state’s last abortion clinic...
View ArticleNew York judge blocks Trump's 'conscience rule' to deny medical care for...
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer struck down the Trump administration's “conscience rule” that would have protected healthcare providers, as well as health plans, if they refused to participate in...
View ArticleHappy "Thanks, Birth Control" Day
Every November 13th, we observe Thanks, Birth Control Day. As 99 percent of women in the US will use a contraceptive method at one point or another, birth control should be celebrated. But the Trump...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood debuts online tool that helps people find their closest...
Planned Parenthood now offers a new online tool that may seriously help people seeking abortions figure out where to actually get them. Among the numerous unfair barriers that people who want an...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: When Will the War Be Over?
I came late to feminism. (Forgive me if I’ve told you this story before) — my 15 year old son woke me.He came home with a note from his health teacher complaining about his failure of participation in...
View ArticleOhio's Gynoticians say: Let's Reimplant Ectopic Pregnancies!
Their so-called “heartbeat” bill wasn’t extreme enough. Ohio’s Republican lawmakers have been in the news again this week for proposing to make all abortions illegal and charge doctors who perform...
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