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Conservative Women’s Outreach Panel Asks How to Get Men More Involved
Click here for all our coverage of the 2014 Values Voter Summit. Socially conservative political activists at this year’s Values Voter Summit acknowledged that they have a problem with women and young...
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GOP Candidates in Key Races Downplaying Anti-Choice Views
As Election Day draws near, many Republican candidates in tight races are making public statements in support of women’s reproductive rights that seem to conflict with their records. Some Republican...
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The Senate Flip Could Have Serious Implications for Women of Color
Now that Election Day 2014 has come and gone, Americans can finally confront the prospect of a new world era under Republican legislative control. Pundits will label last night’s results a massacre—not...
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Four New Anti-Choice Bills Introduced in U.S. Senate
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) this week introduced four new anti-choice bills in the Senate, including a measure to defund Planned Parenthood at the federal level. Vitter, who was once at the center of a...
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Joni Ernst, Anti-Choice Extremist, to Give GOP State of the Union Rebuttal
Freshman U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is the Republican Party’s pick to deliver its rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. It’s easy to see why party leaders would pick...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Joni Ernst’s Minor Mention of Abortion in Her SOTU Response
In their official response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, Republicans returned to the well of selecting one of their rare congresswomen to deliver it. However, Sen. Joni...
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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...
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The 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...
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Democrats, 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...
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House 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...
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What 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...
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GOP 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...
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GOP: 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!...
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Anti-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...
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Eleven 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...
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GOP 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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