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Opinion: Iowa Wages War On Women’s Autonomy
This bill wasn’t written with the intent to protect or govern on the side of the woman. It was written to save fetuses.
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Evangelicals Are The Source of Violence Against Planned Parenthood And Women’s Clinics
Carly Fiorina, said that the Colorado shooter’s motive for killing other Americans was a valid one and she duly lashed out at the left
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Pro-Lifer Admits Regulating Women’s Sexuality, Not Abortion, Drives Planned Parenthood Attacks
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
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On The Roe v. Wade Anniversary A March To Ban Contraception
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
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Republicans Fooled Americans Again To Eliminate Women’s Reproductive Rights
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
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Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
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President Obama Preserved Women’s Reproductive Rights In Passing the CRomnibus
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
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McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
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The Koch Brothers Fund Religious Groups That Are Eliminating Women’s Rights
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
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Nurse Can’t Understand Joni Ernst’s Position Against Brutalized Sexual Assault Victims
Democrats hit Ernst today with an ad featuring Kim Tweedy, a Nurse Examiner on a West Des Moines Sexual Assault Response Team, who can’t understand how Joni Ernst could want to outlaw abortion even for victims of rape and incest.
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Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade
For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.
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Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate
The latest Republican to introduce legislation attacking women’s right to choose is Senator Lindsey Graham who attempted to bypass a committee and asked for unanimous consent to bring the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” up for a vote.
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The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
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Devout Christian Jimmy Carter Calls Out The Use of Religion to Attack Women’s Rights
The 39th President and devout Christian addressed a human rights event and lashed out at all religious doctrines that contribute to political leaders passively accepting violence against women.
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Republicans Use Their Power to Establish State Religion and Steal Individual Rights
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
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Women, Not Right Wing Evangelicals, Have Lost Their Freedom To Tyranny
It turns out there is a segment of the population who have lost their freedom due to tyranny, but it originates with Republicans at the behest of Catholic and evangelical personhood advocates.
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When Dogma Trumps the Constitution and Dollars Trump Dogma
In short, this is a story about the Catholic Churches priorities. Dogma trumps the constitution and dollars trump dogma.
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America Moves Forward with Obama as Republicans Double Their Attacks on Gays and Women
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
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Personhood of Convenience: The Hypocrisy Behind Sanctity of Life
One might think that the gospel, and all those deeply held religious values really are only wallet deep.
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House Republicans Waste More Time Trying to Ban Abortion and Birth Control
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
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Election Defeat Hasn’t Stopped the War on Women From Raging On
The election was a rejection of Republican extremism on women’s reproductive rights, but in states with GOP majorities, there is still a crusade to restrict choice.
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Mitt Romney’s Misogynistic Agenda is Designed to Punish Every Woman
Republicans are the party of hate and their standard bearer, Willard Romney, has proven he is the avatar of hate toward the American people, but especially women.
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Invalid Signatures Keep Colorado Personhood Off the Ballot in November
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
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Legitimate Rape is the Tip of the Republican War on Women Iceberg
There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
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How Many Otherwise Socially Liberal Men Have Abandoned Reproductive Rights?
Some of Ron Paul’s otherwise socially liberal followers are an example of men who have turned their backs on reproductive rights.