House GOP Cancels 20-Week Abortion Ban Vote, Introduces Another Anti-Choice Bill
House Republicans at the last minute on Wednesday decided not to take a vote on an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban bill. The House was scheduled to vote on the ban Thursday, the anniversary of...
View ArticleThe GOP: Fiddling With Your Uterus While Our Country Burns
In early May, I headed out to Patapsco Valley State Park near Baltimore, Maryland, for a cycling event. The park opens at 9:00 a.m., the same time the event was scheduled, so I arrived early, hoping to...
View ArticleDemocrats, Women More Supportive of ‘Women’s Lobby’ Priorities Than Other...
Women and Democrats in the Colorado legislature were significantly more likely to vote favorably on bills “reflecting women’s priorities in the state of Colorado” than Republicans and men, according to...
View ArticleHouse GOP Keeps Trying to Overturn D.C.’s Reproductive Health...
House Republicans moved forward Wednesday with another attempt to overturn the District of Columbia’s Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA), this time using the budget process. The House...
View ArticleWhat Conservatives Really Think of Women: ‘Female Animals’ Without Rights
It’s been a doozy of a week, with edited videos and false charges against Planned Parenthood, combined with rampant misinformation about the use of fetal tissue for research, ricocheting through the...
View ArticleGOP Candidates Use Deceptive Anti-Planned Parenthood Videos to Propose...
Given the nonstop outcry from Republicans against Planned Parenthood over the deceptively edited videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), it’s no surprise that abortion rights would be a...
View ArticleGOP: Attack Women All You Want, But Hands Off the White Republican Ones
Friday was a horrible, no-good, very bad day for the Republican Party. Members of the GOP—the party of the “welfare queen,” “the slut,” and “the legitimate rape“—spent the weekend being indignant!...
View ArticleAnti-Choicers Are Trying to Convince Us That Reproductive Care Isn’t a...
This summer, the anti-choice movement clearly had one goal: to see how far it could get in using lies and deceptive rhetoric to convince America that reproductive health care, particularly the service...
View ArticleEleven Inane and Insulting Anti-Abortion Arguments (and How I Shed the Shamers)
Cross-posted with the author’s permission. If recent right-wing insanity has driven you over the edge and you’ve decided to tell the world that you think Planned Parenthood is a good place or abortion...
View ArticleGOP Congressmen Use Hearing to Badger Planned Parenthood President
Congressional Republicans spent more than five hours at a Tuesday House hearing grilling Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, repeatedly interrupting her answers with a barrage of repetitive...
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