This Week in the War on Women
The grief and anger are overwhelming this week, all across the country. In the midst of a raging pandemic, people are risking arrest and violence to protest an outrageous racist killing by police...
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HELP ME MAX THIS CHECK OUT!For eight weeks I have been receiving daily psychiatric treatments for my depression (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation — TMS if you are curious. Yes — it helps a lot). As I...
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View Article‘Trying to survive in Puerto Rico’: A conversation with Taller Salud
For 40 years, the reproductive justice organization Taller Salud has been providing direct services to Puerto Rican survivors of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence. Founded in 1979,...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 6/20/2020
As #BlackLivesMatter protests erupt across the country, and voices are raised for reform or defunding of the police, the three cops who burst in and shot Breonna Taylor remain free. Taylor was a...
View ArticleReproductive justice advocates across the South doing ‘radical work’ in the...
In the months leading up to Monday’s Supreme Court decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, which overturned a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges with a nearby...
View ArticleME, CO, IA, SC, NC & AZ-Sen: Colllins' (R) Brett Kavanaugh Problem Is...
First off, she needs to be called out for her bull shit:Embattled Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a statement Monday that she agreed with the Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana’s...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 7/4/2020
The reality is hitting in waves: COVID-19 is going to be the New Abnormal for a long time, and the United States is doing a much worse job at fighting it than almost every other country. Some prominent...
View ArticleThe strictest abortion ban in the nation targets communities of color
As pro-choice advocates in Louisiana breathe a sigh of relief after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the June Medical Services case last week, Tennessee is gearing up for a fight against one of the...
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👩🏽🔧This Week In the War On Women 7/11/20 w/ poll on...
Our Saturday evening diaries offer a weekly summary of news on women's issues, and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to comment in the discussion, bring...
View ArticleFive questions for Amanda Reyes, leader of Yellowhammer Fund that bought an...
Back in 2016, Amanda Reyes and some friends were active in Tuscaloosa as escorts at the West Alabama Women’s Center, one of the Cotton State’s three remaining clinics providing abortions. They had...
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As we wait to hear the announcement of Joe Biden’s running mate, negative stories seem to be hitting all over the place about all of the candidates. Part of this is routine in politics, of course. But...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Unite the Struggles and Fight like Hell!
It is that time again, you know, the one that occurs every 4 years whereby both parties put out their respective platforms and we look at them and say well some of what is on offer is actually truly...
View ArticleCO-Sen: Denver Post, "Cory Gardner (R) poses a threat to safe and legal...
Anna Ramirez Crawford, board chair for the Women;s Lobby of Colorado has a good op-ed piece out in the Denver Post that goes after U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s (R. CO) abysmal record on women’s health...
View ArticleTed Cruz claims pregnancy is not life-threatening, and Twitter has an...
Sen. Ted Cruz, a man who’s been convinced of his own brilliance at least since he was a teenager, decided Wednesday to show just how willfully ignorant he is. Tweeting about the medical abortion drug...
View ArticleStanding Up to Sterilization, Eugenics and the Abuse of Women
“Keep your hands off my uterus!” That’s an often-repeated placard and plea at women’s marches I’ve attended over the past forty years. In the U.S. and abroad, it’s a common, continuing refrain because...
View ArticleThe woman he may pick could paint the SC orange to hide the work of RBG. It...
My sympathies to the family of Justice Gingsburg’s family. My further sympathies for our daughters and granddaughters, POC and the disabled. Meet Barbara Lagoa: He and DeSantis working hand in hand...
View ArticleA Catholic’s Case Against Amy Coney Barrett
It may be tempting to focus primarily on Amy Coney Barrett’s membership in People of Praise. But we shouldn’t. As a Catholic, I find that organization to be concerning and her involvement, maybe also...
View ArticleSupreme Court nominee Barrett signed extremist group's ad decrying 'barbaric...
It should not be a surprise that the person Donald J. Trump has nominated to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes abortion is “always immoral.”...
View Article44 years of the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment is 44 years too long
Campaign ActionSeptember 30 commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, an archaic, anti-abortion provision that bans abortion coverage for people enrolled in Medicaid and other federal...
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