This Week in the War on Women
Perhaps it’s a sign of how much feminism has become mainstreamed: the right is now trying to repackage anti-feminist judge Amy Coney Barrett as a “feminist icon.” They’re even ripping off the...
View ArticleLatinas/xs face systemic barriers to reproductive care at every level
by Laura JiménezIn recent months, through the chaos and devastation of a deadly global pandemic, an economic recession, and endemic police violence, the daily news cycle has become the source of...
View ArticleJoe, You Can't "Pass Legislation to Make Roe the Law of the Land." But There...
I watched most of Joe Biden’s Town Hall on MSNBC last night, and thought he did fine, except for one moment that made me cringe, like it does every time I hear a Democrat say that if the Supreme Court...
View ArticleNew SCOTUS nomination won't stop the fight for reproductive justice
As the future of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance, reproductive rights and justice in the United States are particularly at risk. But people around the country have long faced significant...
View ArticleWHY WOULD AN ANTI-ABORTION PRESIDENT TAKE A COVID DRUG TESTED ON ABORTED...
I have been reading your comments, they are great. I was pleasantly surprised to learn there are people out there as jaded as I am. While Mr. Trump’s Evangelical supporters are willing to overlook...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
In a week that included such stories concerning women as the vice presidential debate, in which Kamala Harris walked the line between strength and not being seen as an angry black woman; in which four...
View ArticleA Better Response on Court Expansion Isn't Difficult
I’m not a campaign professional. No one has ever paid me to write a speech for them. So, I’m baffled at the callowness and lack of precision in how Biden and Harris are responding to court expansion....
View ArticleMI-Sen: John James (R) Received Donations From Militia Members Who Plotted To...
Donna Provencher at The American Independent has a great piece about how U.S. Senate candidate, John James (R. MI), has been cozening up right-wing extremists like Ted Nugent (pictured above) and some...
View ArticleSorry, Republicans, but a majority of American Catholics are pro-choice
It is one of the GOP’s tried and untrue slanders, deployed every time a Republican President nominates an anti-abortion Catholic to the federal judiciary. The GOP and its amen corner claim Democrats...
View ArticleThis week on the Brief: ACB's extremism, expanding the courts, and stealing...
This week The Brief hosts Markos and Kerry were joined live by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, and Carolyn Fiddler, Daily Kos’ own Communications Director, to discuss packing and...
View ArticleRightwing Packing on Supreme Court Means ERA More Crucial Than Ever to...
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comIt is so curious how right-wingers, Trumpers see mask-wearing mandate for public health as “tyranny” but can’t wait to force women to bear babies, even if her...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 10/24/2020
Another day, another highly placed media pundit being sexually inappropriate. This time it was Jeffrey Toobin (of The New Yorker and CNN), giving colleagues an unwanted eyeful when he left the camera...
View ArticlePompeo Signs America's Name to Int'l Anti-Abortion Agreement While Praising...
Three headlines this morning start my day with a feeling of outrage and horror. The third one makes me feel like I’ve time traveled backward 50 years. Thank Donald Trump (and Mike Pompeo) and his band...
View ArticleAnti-LGBTQ, anti-choice group endorses a 'truly grateful' Susan Collins
Does Sen. Susan Collins know that her vote for Brett Kavanaugh put her “moderate” reputation up in smoke? Or is she just that desperate as she trails in polls with less than two weeks to go before the...
View ArticleConey Barrett confirmation stirs ‘sleeping giant’ pro-choice religious community
In the weeks leading up to Monday’s Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, there was a slate of reporting about abortion and religious communities. Much of the reporting was ahistorical,...
View ArticleIvanka Trump is ‘unapologetically’ against abortion rights. Jared tried...
Ran out of room on that title. :-(This article was just published at Raw Story:President Donald Trump’s daughter was asked about her views on abortion during an interview with Real Clear Politics...“I...
View ArticleJoe Biden expected to roll back abortion restrictions early on in his...
Short of expanding the Supreme Court, when he takes the oath and becomes president in January, Joe Biden won’t be able to do much about any decisions the ever-more conservative court majority may make...
View ArticleTwo New Atrocities on the Abortion Front: Bad in Mississippi But Far Worse in...
I don’t feel good enough to write this but I’ll give it a shot just because the information needs to be out there and no one else has mentioned it here. This is the sort of vindictive, misogynistic...
View ArticleContrast: Argentina vs. Ohio. Going Forward or Going Backward?
Ohio House lawmakers passed a bill that would require an aborted fetus to be cremated or buried in latest burden on reproductive rightsLeave it to Ohio to march backward on reproductive rights. The...
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ACM: On Supporting Reproductive Justice and Women’s Bodily Autonomy
Watching Amy Coney-Barrett’s confirmation proceedings for the SCOTUS, there were several distressing exchanges that occurred. One that stands out occurred during Senator Amy Klobuchar’s questions where...
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