The Trump administration is expected to push ahead with a range of policies that affect healthcare next year despite Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives. Democrats captured the House majority in the midterms because of their message on healthcare. But that is not stopping Donald Trump from moving ahead on his controversial health…
They say they are fighting abortion, but recent actions by Donald Trump and his Republican enablers make clear that they in fact have declared war on birth control itself. In doing so they have taken the “war on women” to a new extreme level because they are challenging the right of women to have access…
When a conspiracy theorist is elected President of the United States, these are the things you can expect to happen.
Yoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the administration is pandering to extreme evangelical conservatives.
The new NBC/WSJ poll reveals that by a wide margin Planned Parenthood is significantly more popular than Mike Pence who is even more despised than Trump.
The colossal failure of Donald Trump and Republicans to agree on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is already having wide-ranging effects.
Trump was met with huge crowds of protesters voicing their opposition to his visit to Nashville and his dangerous agenda.
It remains to be seen what Donald Trump will do on a national scale as president.
Illness is indiscriminate and every person must be afforded the care they need when they need it.
It is time for the party of life to live up to their convictions and stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and continue to fund Planned Parenthood.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the course of the last several years no small number of pundits and commentators have trumpeted the demise of the religious right and their masters at the Vatican. As the recent election appeared to look bleak for Trump, and by extension the Republican Party…
“Thanks to the Obama Administration women will still be able to access the birth control they need to plan their families, and cancer screenings they need to stay healthy.â€
Rubio readily admits that “Microcephaly is a terrible prenatal condition and it’s a lifetime of difficulties. But I’m pro-life.”
Failure to pass Zika funding forced the administration to choose between delaying vaccine work and raiding other programs to avoid these delays.
Governor Terry Branstad (R-IA) says he backs a “reasonable proposal” to defund Planned Parenthood in Iowa, even though federal money doesn’t pay for abortion services due to the Hyde Act and it is already illegal to use Medicaid money for abortion services in Iowa.
“Republicans want to provide extremists with a road map to every woman in the state who’s exercised her constitutional right to choose.”
Those being burned at the stake are our scientists who hold lifesaving medical breakthroughs in their hands.
Cruz says he will illegally order an investigation of Planned Parenthood and end requirement of contraceptive method coverage for employers
While Americans focus on the primaries, Republicans are eliminating women’s rights.
Women stood up for their rights in the Roman forum 2000 years ago, and women today are forced to do the same or consent to male control
Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents from bad policies
Planned Parenthood was cleared by a grand jury of any wrongdoing but the two creators of the edited Planned Parenthood videos have been indicted on criminal charges.
According to a new poll, when voters were informed about the religious Republican drive to ban access to legal abortion in the states, they were “disgusted and angry” and two-thirds of voters want Republicans stopped in their tracks.
The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare
New Year is coming with mixed tidings, the good with the bad, with genuine evil in its wake, a Republican wrecking ball aimed right at us
A Fox News commenter in Washington state, Scott Anthony Orton, was finally arrested for posting terrorist threats aimed at StemExpress
Responding to Obama Sunday, Ryan said nothing about gun sales to terrorists or the dangers of radicalizing Muslims with more Republican hate
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
The SPLC says hate groups “have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people,..for their immutable characteristics.”
Carson got extreme as he tried to blame both sides for abortion extremism, saying women are being manipulated but conservatives can save them
New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) went directly to the right wing mattresses in his first news conference as Speaker, during which he refused to rule out the House using riders to get their way.
Bobby Jindal has suffered another defeat as a federal judge has ordered him to restore all funding to his state’s Planned Parenthood.
The GOP is jumping on the Dark Age bandwagon to stop scientists from finding cures to myriad infirmities and debilitating and deadly diseases
Tomorrow, House Republicans are slated to pass “filibuster-proof” legislation founded on religion to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare
The Reproductive Fact ACT that forces faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to stop lying and stop posing as medical providers.
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
Far from reporting on right wing terrorism in America, the mainstream media aids and abets a message that violence against women is OK
A brand-spanking new report conducted and released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a noted research group out of the University of Texas, Austin, the state’s anti-abortion laws are hurting women and prohibiting from making their own reproductive health choices which is, after all, the goal of evangelical Republicans.
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
Peter King said Boehner’s resignation is “like throwing raw meat to some of these people…they’re just going to look for more.”
The latest poll from the Pew Research Center found that 60% of Americans disagree with the Republican Party and are insisting that any budget deal includes funding for Planned Parenthood.
Women today are living out The Handmaid’s Tale, where faulty “birthing vessels” are prosecuted for failing to perform as a birthing vessel.
Since Boehner’s surprise resignation announcement, calls for removing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have intensified.
Speaker of the House John Boehner announced a huge win for Democrats on Face The Nation. Boehner said that the government won’t be shut down, and he made it clear that Planned Parenthood will remain funded.
When House Republicans announced a new witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, Democrats were swift and decisive in their response
All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare
President Obama has preemptively struck at the Republican bill to defund Planned Parenthood, by promising to veto the bill if it passes the Senate.
“The right-wing Marxists have teamed up with Pelosi. They’re the ones who always team up with Pelosi. They are the Pelosi Republicans.”
The CBO determined that maintaining sequester-level cuts would lead to 500,000 fewer jobs and 0.4% less growth in 2016, and 300,000 fewer jobs and 0.2% less growth in 2017. For Koch Republicans, the idea of killing 800,000 Americans’ jobs and retarding America’s world-leading economic growth while an African American man is in the White House is just business as usual and a way to slow down the President’s economic success.
During an interview on CBS’s Face The Nation Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton didn’t mention Carly Fiorina’s name, but it was clear who she was talking about when she called the misleading and inaccurate statements made about Planned Parenthood at the Republican debate.
President Obama dropped a reality bomb on Republicans today by declaring that defunding Planned Parenthood is an illegitimate issue.
Clinton called out the Republican “race to the bottom,” their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
While the Republican presidential candidates were grandstanding on Planned Parenthood, President Obama hit Republicans with reality when he issued a veto threat that promised to reject the GOP attempts to defund the organization.
A new poll contains a strong warning to Republicans from the American people that they will pay if they shut the government down over funding for Planned Parenthood.
The Republicans’ witness list was “a veritable who’s who” of evangelical anti-women’s choice experts – but no medical experts
A new House report busted Congressional Republicans for conspiring with the Center for Medical Progress and others on a coordinated campaign to discredit Planned Parenthood and undermine a woman’s right to safe and legal healthcare.
Twenty-eight Republican men are threatening to shut down the government unless women are denied critical health care services through the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
Arson was ruled the cause of a fire that burned a Planned Parenthood health center early Friday morning in Pullman, Washington.
If history is any indication, law enforcement had better take the increase in death threats against abortion providers very seriously
Thinking like a terrorist, Cruz wants pastors to help him radicalize their congregations to join his war on women with a pre-prepared sermon
Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid in Louisiana, depriving thousands of healthcare, but says Planned Parenthood disrespects human life
By Defunding Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz has shown that he plans to climb over the bodies of women to claw his way into the White House
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
Carson denies any contradiction between his crusade against Planned Parenthood, and his own past use of fetal tissue for research.
This is what the new MSNBC looks like in action. Joe Scarborough was allowed to use deceptively edited videos to attack Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a segment on Morning Joe.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rick Perry while strongly opposing the Republican bill to defund the organization.
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
President Obama is standing by Planned Parenthood as the White House confirmed that he will veto the Republican bill to defund the organization.
Ted Cruz and House Republicans are teaming up to hand the White House to Democrats in 2016 by threatening to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.
Sen. Bernie Sanders tore into Senate Republicans for harming the health of 2.7 million women with a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood.
The GOP’s inability to get along with one another has ensured that for now, Planned Parenthood, will continue to receive federal funds.
Another ridiculously edited video offered up as proof that Planned Parenthood is selling body parts. Conservatives expected this to catch on like it’s 2010.
According to the Catholic justices’ ruling, the Obama Administration ‘must’ provide an accommodation for “religious” for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court’s decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by ‘religious corporations,’ will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
“This is the 29th time in four months that Congress has tried to restrict abortion, which is outrageous,” Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, charged after Republicans passed yet another assault on women’s rights.
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
In a speech where President Obama condemned ISIS as a “death cult”, Congressman Fleming interprets Obama’s words to be supportive of ISIS.
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.
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.
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.
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
Don’t believe Republicans. Ladies, if a Republican says he has your back, clench; it’s not because he wants to give you a back rub.
In which Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan’s pattern of transferring power over a woman’s private choices to the government becomes a campaign issue.
Kevin Williamson’s article, titled ‘Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb To Vote,’ claimed that the first reason someone would be too dumb to vote is if they got their voting advice from Lena Dunham.
You may know Campbell Brown as a former anchorwoman who had regular gigs on CNN and NBC. Since then, she has kept herself busy writing critical op-eds about President Obama and Planned Parenthood and jumping into the education reform movement.
The inspiration for Hobby Lobby, and 71 other “religious” corporations, to sue for a religious exemption of the contraception mandate is not about abortion, but about controlling women and inflicting consequences for not adhering to their Puritanical belief that women in their employ, can not, and will not, have sexual relations without paying a heavy price.
Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole out against women with impunity; and Supreme Court approval.
The fanatical Christian-right is targeting Girl Scout USA’s annual cookie sales for a boycott because the group listed Wendy Davis as an incredible woman of the year.
On the very first day of November, a right winged anti-government man walked into the Los Angeles’ LAX Airport Terminal 3 with an assault rifle, shot up and killed a TSA agent and injured as many as five around 9:20 a.m.
Judge William Conley ruled that “There is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement.”
Republicans have taken to championing primeval causes for their reality-challenged supporters, and left to their own devices are creating a hazardous existence for women.
Republicans typically oppose women’s equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their allegiance to evangelical Christians.
House Republicans proposed they will shut down the government unless they are allowed to restrict women’s access to contraception.
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.
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.
Paul Ryan said that elected officials should be in charge of Row V Wade, raising the alarm bell that a Romney/Ryan admin intends to implement the Personhood Amendment.
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.
Prosecutors in Kansas dropped the remaining 32 charges against Planned Parenthood bringing an end to, anti-choice zealot, Phill Kline’s witch-hunt masquerading as a prosecution.