5 lessons from this week’s special elections that Democrats crushed
Democrats should be riding high after two impressive special election victories this week with promising implications for November. Veteran Democratic lawmaker Tom Suozziwon back his old job...
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Do Alabama child care facilities have more options
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama quoted the Bible for a judicial decision recognizing fertilized and frozen embryos as "children." Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma & South Carolina...
View ArticleThe Republican disaster on IVF is just beginning
No sooner did a major Alabama hospitalpause IVF treatments after a state Supreme Court ruling declared frozen embryos are people than a Republican presidential candidate signaled her alignment with the...
View ArticleAlabama taxpayers should use IVF ruling against the state
It’s simple. If each embryo in Alabama is now considered a person, each couple should declare each embryo as a dependent. Wouldn’t that be interesting if people started declaring 25, 50, 75 or more...
View ArticleSenate Republicans officially hit the panic button on their IVF mess
On Friday morning, the National Republican Senatorial Committee issued talking points as Republicans struggled to respond to the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children, a...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are “children.” The case involved a clinic being sued for “wrongful death” after accidentally destroying embryos belonging to three...
View ArticleSupreme Court won't let red states help ban the abortion pill—for now
This past Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the bid of three red states—Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri—to intervene in the abortion pill case the court will hear in March. In January, the states...
View ArticleSenate Democrats put the GOP on the spot over IVF
Republicans leaders are tied up in knots on IVF after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, a decision that has led some clinics in the state to shut down in vitro...
View ArticleRepublicans will do anything to protect IVF, except vote for it
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois asked Wednesday for unanimous consent to pass her bill granting federal protections to IVF and other advanced fertility treatments, to prevent more states...
View ArticleCartoon: The anti-sex league
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View ArticleBiden unleashes on the Supreme Court in his State of the Union speech
President Joe Biden’s fiery State of the Union address Thursday was made even stronger with some near-seamless ad-libs. None were more unexpected or more effective than when he directly took on the...
View ArticleBlack Kos: Kudos to South Carolina Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley
Dawn Staley is the ruling Queen of women’s college basketballCommentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-VelezIt’s Black Women’s history month in my book, and I decided to pay tribute today to a...
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What is Pronatalism?
WHAT IS PRONATALISM?Pronatalism is the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate. Many who push pronatalism fear that falling birth...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 3/10-16/24: Rewards and Punishments Edition
Let’s start with a somewhat disturbing punishment: The parents of murderous school shooter Ethan Crumbley have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, first the mother in February, now the father....
View ArticleMontana, an island of abortion access, preps for consequential elections and...
Abortion remains legal in the conservative stronghold because of a 25-year-old state Supreme Court ruling that protected it under the right to privacy included in the state’s constitution.So far, most...
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CONCERNED ABOUT POPULATION GROWTH? Solve it by Centering the Rights of Women...
When I started working at Population Media Center, I had a lot to learn about population. Out of all the environmental organizations, publications, and conferences I had connected with – I couldn’t...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene vows to get rid of law that protects abortion clinics
During a ludicrous forced-birther symposium on Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breathlessly said, “We will repeal the FACE Act if we can get our opportunity,” referring to the 1994 law that...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
I’m currently reading Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates. It’s a harrowing exploration of the misogynist online “manosphere” and its offline counterparts. I can’t imagine dong the research for this one,...
View ArticleWyoming 24th State to Ban Gender Reassignment Surgery
What happened to the “preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in one-half of our United States? Wyoming just became the 24th state banning physicians from performing gender...
View ArticleShare This! GOP Project 2025 Plans for Reproductive Rights
Today I heard WBUR’s Meghna Chakrabarti’s discussion about the Republican’s Project 2025 and what it has to say about reproductive rights. I’ve been reading up on this, so there weren’t many surprises...
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