This Week in the War on Women
A Nebraska teenager and her mother are being criminally charged over the teen’s abortion, after Facebook provided law enforcement with her private messages. The fall of Roe not only brings back...
View ArticleKansas Republicans refuse reality, demand recount of abortion amendment they...
It was election night, Aug. 2, 2022—nearly two weeks ago. The nation held its breath as Kansas became the first state to test what the people would say about a public vote that, after the Dobbs...
View ArticleSC lawmaker chokes up after sharing teen nearly lost uterus due to...
As states across the country target reproductive rights with their horrific anti-abortion laws, pregnant people are bearing the consequences. With no provisions for rape or incest, several of these...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood pours a record-breaking $50 million into midterm races in...
Jenny Lawson is the executive director of the new website, Planned Parenthood Votes. When it comes to talking about November’s midterm elections, she is unequivocal. Lawson tells Associated Press (AP),...
View ArticleAbortion funds have been inundated with donations and volunteer requests, but...
This article was originally published at Prism.In mid-July, Alison Dreith said she felt like she was going to have “a breakdown.” It’d been a few weeks since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade,...
View Article‘I'm carrying it to bury it’: Louisiana woman forced to carry fetus that...
Some states have no regard for the trauma associated with loss. In addition to having horrific anti-abortion laws, some states are allegedly forcing pregnant individuals to carry nonviable pregnancies....
View ArticleUndocumented people struggle to access reproductive care due to...
by María Inés TaracenaThis article was originally published at Prism.TW: This article contains mentions of rape, reproductive coercion, and domestic abuse.Luisa grew up in a small, conservative town in...
View ArticleBen Cline: Extremist
Ben Cline: ExtremistSixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline does a good job of disguising himself as a sensible mainstream conservative. He comes across as even-tempered and tends to avoid the...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 8/14 - 8/20/2022
*Sigh*, another week, another litany of awful crap inflicted on women just because we’re women…OK, let’s get right to it:Reproductive RightsA Florida appellate court on Monday blocked a 16-year-old...
View Article'Cannot afford to put politics over the rights of people': New Orleans mayor...
Because New Orleans officials have refused to criminalize lifesaving reproductive health care, the Louisiana attorney general has taken to punishing the residents of one of the state's most populous...
View ArticleGOP nominee for Michigan governor says rapists' babies can provide 'healing'...
Folks, let’s forget for the moment that the GOP blocks everything Democrats want to do to help working people, is threatening our democracy with a fusillade of election lies, routinely whitewashes the...
View ArticleGov. DeSantis says quiet thing about abortion out loud and then runs away...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to be the next president of the United States. He has successfully replicated Donald Trump’s general obdurate dunderhead mannerisms—the ones so applauded by the MAGA...
View ArticlePA-Sen: LOL! Snowflake Sean Hannity Is Threatening To Sue John Fetterman (D)...
Call in the WHHHHHHAAAAAMMMMMBULANCE!An upset Sean Hannity ramped up his attacks against Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman on Tuesday night, at one point floating legal action toward the...
View ArticleJudge who said teen’s grades were not good enough to get abortion voted out...
With the end of Roe v. Wade, abortion and reproductive rights have become a deciding factor for voters nationwide. Proving once again that local elections matter, Florida voters ousted two officials...
View ArticleTexas Right to Life political director fired after arrest for soliciting a...
The Supreme Court’s decision to take away the reproductive rights of tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans marks the ascension of the Conservative Christian zealot movement in our country....
View ArticleAfter a June Dip, ActBlue Fundraising Surges in July '22. Multiple drivers of...
No. 5 in a series.This series continues with a familiar story- Dem enthusiasm is showing in fundraising, voter registrations, primary voting, and many other ways. Due to my travel, and a lackluster...
View ArticleStraight Pride extremists embarrass themselves yet again with event outside...
Another day, another horrifying protest outside of a Planned Parenthood. In this case, as reported by the Modesto Bee, about 30 “straight pride” protesters appeared outside of the clinic in Modesto,...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Republicans are just beginning to grasp the repercussions of their decades-long crusade to ban reproductive freedom for women. Support for legal abortion has grown since Roe was overturned.Some...
View ArticleAnother Grassroots Response to the Texas GOP
A Texas coffeehouse is taking the direct approach in its response to Texas Republicans’ draconian ban on abortion. As McClatchy Newspapers reported:When the Tumbleweed + Sage Coffeehouse started giving...
View ArticleWisconsin's GOP gubernatorial candidate freaks out after media reports on his...
The latest GOPster to discover that it’s far easier to be a forced-birth booster when you live in a Roe v. Wade world is Tim Michels, the Donald Trump-endorsed candidate for Wisconsin governor. After...
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