Just whose Life are these people "Pro?"
The Right-Wing repeatedly claims the mantle of "Pro-Life" except for anytime someone who has been actually born is at risk. They say there is no "Right to Privacy" in the Constitution when also there...
View ArticleThe Death of Stare Decisis and the Demise of the 4th Amendment
I was out of the country in May when news of the SCOTUS leak in which Justice Samuel Alito’s policy statement went viral. I hadn’t watched TV for a week and barely signed onto social media but when I...
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Is the fertilized egg, blastocyst, zygote, embryo a person, a separate self?...
A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of a discussion about religion, a Kossack made this comment:No, science is not the best tool we have for every problem. It is particularly useless in investigating...
View ArticleDaily Kos/Civiqs poll: Majority of Americans support common-sense gun safety...
The best antidote for hot takes is hard data, and the latest Daily Kos/Civiqs poll is here with your cure. This survey of 1,316 registered voters was conducted online from June 4-7 and reveals that 83%...
View ArticleOverturning Roe could have consequences for people with intellectual and...
This article was originally published at PrismIntellectually and developmentally disabled people have historically been weaponized against abortion rights by conservative politicians, or forced into...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 6/5-11/2022: Toxic Masculinity Edition
Welp, the GOP continues to blame mass shootings on everything but guns. Doors, pot, mental illness, video games, and now smartphones. Meanwhilst, Cucker Tarlson insists that we need “traditional...
View ArticleIf 2 future Presidents arrange for abortions, and appoint 5 SCOTUS justices,...
Consider the scenario. First, why did Donald Trump dodge this interview question from Maureen Dowd about past encounters, and outcomes, with women. [April 2016 interview]Dowd:“I had to ask: When he...
View ArticleFighting for AAPI abortion care means disaggregating data
by Jenn FangThis article was originally published at Prism.Based on the recent leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion draft, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to strike down Roe...
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This Week in the War on Women
The recent settlement by Lyft is such perfect metaphor for the war on women. Lyft concealed cases like the one involving Alison Turkos, who was kidnapped at gunpoint by Lyft driver in 2017, driven to...
View ArticleLaws targeting free speech about abortion would put journalists in the line...
This article was originally published at PrismWhat does it mean for a website to “encourage” abortion? New anti-abortion model legislation released last week by the National Right to Life Committee...
View ArticleDespite opposing lack of exceptions, Louisiana's Democratic governor signs...
As the country awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on whether or not they will actually overturn the 1973 landmark case of Roe v. Wade, officials across the country are making moves to either guarantee...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Supreme Court takes away a majority of Americans' reproductive...
It is Friday. We knew it would be bad. We all hoped for a miracle. There are no miracles, just work to be done. The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—most likely...
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Roe v Wade overturned, 6-3, as expected from this rogue SCOTUS
The right-wing judges on the U.S. Supreme Court have overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case, 6-3, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion.It is sad day for humanity, when a...
View Article'We are prey.' Expert advice for survival in a Post-Roe world
In a ruling that surprised no one who has watched the Supreme Court devolve further and further into a tool of oppression, the Supreme Court has overruled Roe v. Wade, and with it, the right to...
View ArticleAbortion now absolutely illegal in multiple states with no exceptions as...
Usually, when a decision is handed down from the Supreme Court, it takes some time before the broad consequences of that decision are felt across the nation. That’s not the case with Dobbs. The...
View ArticleReproductive rights under attack: Abortion providers faced steep increase in...
As the country awaited the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade, abortion providers across the country faced increased incidents of violence. Reports of assault and battery at clinics...
View ArticleOverturning Roe has horrifying consequences in states like mine with 'trigger...
Last night was a dream, walking just a few blocks to a neighborhood venue where a friend’s band would play their last show for a few months. The Louisiana humidity and mellow evening temperatures...
View ArticleRoe Overturned. All of Y'all "I just ccouldn't vote for that woman" folk...
Yeah, I said it!! Because women (to be clear, white women) who voted for trump vs Hillary in 2016, we got Trump-appointed Amy Coney Barrett who provided the nail-in-the-coffin for Roe.Nobody has to...
View ArticleRoe and Josh Marshall's Advice
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has been thinking and writing about this since the Alito draft was leaked (I can’t prove that it was by Ginni Thomas). His column at TPM may be behind a...
View ArticleToo many Democrats are already failing the test the Supreme Court's abortion...
The Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, gutting abortion rights nationally and allowing abortion bans to go into effect in multiple states. It was a moment we’ve known was coming...
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