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First Lady Jill Biden Tells Donald Trump That Women Know Exactly Who He Is
First Lady Jill Biden told Donald Trump that women know exactly who he is, and they won’t be fooled.
Tagged Reproductive Rights
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Democrat Flips State House Seat In Alabama By Running On Reproductive Rights
Democrat Marilyn Lands won a state House special in deep red Alabama by making reproductive rights the center of her campaign.
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Biden Takes Over Championship Sunday With Reproductive Rights Ads
How popular are reproductive rights in the United States? So popular that the Biden campaign is running ads about them on NFL Championship Sunday.
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Elizabeth Warren Goes Big With Reproductive Rights Protection Plan
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) responded to attacks on reproductive rights in Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri with a big plan to protect the right to choose.
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Trump Administration Attacks Women and Immigrants In a Single Case
There’s a case in which we’re seeing the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the rights of women and immigrants at the same time.
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DC Laws Are On the Republican Controlled Congress Chopping Block Again
Every woman in American knows how it feels to have her family planning and reproductive healthcare choices vetoed by a bunch of privileged white men in Congress.
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Opinion: Montana Bill Charges Abortion Doctors With Homicide
This is the right of a woman and her doctor.These decisions should be made between the two of them with open, careful, honest, truthful consults. Not the legislature.
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Elections Matter: Trump Win Motivates Ohio GOP To Pass Extremist Anti-Choice Bill
If this extremist attack on reproductive rights proves anything, it’s that elections matter.
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Victory For Reproductive Rights As GOP Abortion Restrictions Get Scrapped in Virginia
In an 11 to 4 vote, the board scrapped Virginia’s regulations which would have required abortion clinics to adhere to the same regulations as surgical centers.
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Texas GOP Platform Is Patently Un-American, Religious and Nativist
“The only solution to the current situation is for Texas to threaten to secede. Then Washington will start cleaning up its act.”
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Republicans Proven Wrong: Anti-Abortion Laws Hurt Women
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.
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Mitch McConnell’s Announcement Incites Republicans To Shutdown The Government
A government shutdown may work well for Republicans going into a general election – two years ago their 16-day shutdown paid huge dividends
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Mike Huckabee Says he Will Use Military to Prevent Abortion
Asked in Iowa how he could stop abortion when it’s perfectly legal, Huckabee said, “We’ll see, if I get to be president.”
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Cowardly Americans Tremble In Fear While A Courageous Nun Defends Women
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The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
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Too Bad Scott Walker, SCOTUS Doesn’t Think Forced Ultrasounds Are Cool
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
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With Koch Funding, Kansas Republicans Pass Nation’s First Abortion Procedure Ban
Kansas’ religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they passed legislation for the National Right To Life movement outlawing a medical procedure to ban abortions at 14 weeks after fertilization.
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Republicans Admit Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Religious Tyranny Meant to Control Women
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.
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The Real Unseen Danger of Indiana’s Legal Discrimination Law
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the ‘faithful’ to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
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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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Women’s Greatest Enemy Is Evangelical Women, Not Republican Men
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.
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It Was Catholic Bishops Who Masterminded The Evangelical Hobby Lobby Crusade
A group of Catholic bishops in America found an easy means to exert control over Christian conservatives and manipulate them to re-establish Vatican control over theocratic and political matters to bring women into subjection to Catholic dogma.
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Federal Court Slams Texas TRAP Law Back To the Stone-Age
In a much needed victory for women in Texas, a Federal Court struck down the Lone Star State’s version of a TRAP law.
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In Hobby Lobby Case Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment With Corporate Theocracy
In Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Inc. the Supreme Court ended its flirtation with unanimity and ruled 5-4 in favor of corporate theocracy.
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Hypocrisy Alert: SCOTUS Keeps Its Own Buffer Zone While Telling Women They Don’t Need One
It is impossible to overlook the fact that women’s reproductive rights have been systematically eroded with personhood amendments, TRAP laws and rape insurance mandates.
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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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SCOTUS Tells Arizona’s Anti-Abortion Crusaders to Suck It Up
At issue is a Grand Canyon State law, passed in 2012, that prohibits most abortions, except in medical emergencies, after 20 weeks. This past May, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, located in San Francisco, deemed the law unconstitutional.
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Liberty Stealing Republicans Try to Control Women’s Body By Attacking Private Healthcare
It is the right to choose their reproductive health that women are most likely under attack from Republicans whose latest assault is restricting abortion coverage in private health care plans.
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Lessons Lawmakers Should Learn From the Ariel Castro Case
There are a few lessons that lawmakers can take from the case of Ariel Castro.
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This is What a Subsidiary Of The Koch Empire Looks Like
\When one looks at each law passed by the NC Republicans in isolation, it’s easy to dismiss them as bad. When taken together, North Carolina is a blue print of what a Koch Empire would look like.
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NC Senate Sticks It to Women with Final Approval of Its Attack on Reproductive Rights
On the heels of suppressing voting rights, North Carolina’s Senate was on a roll and gave final approval to their version of state interference in women’s reproductive health.
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The Republican Plan for Women: Barefoot, Pregnant, and Economically Dependent
With no religious, economic, and scientific justification for denying women the right to choose their reproductive health, it is obvious the Republican’s goal is exerting control over women.
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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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Republican Championing of Primeval Causes Is Creating a Hazardous Existence for Women
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.
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Democrats Dance Around Protecting the Right To Choose Out Fear of the Extreme Right
In Congress and Republican-controlled states, and instead of decrying the loss of choice, Democrats dance around the issue out of fear of retribution from evangelical extremists.
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Republicans Have Launched 694 Attacks on Women’s Reproductive Rights in 3 Months
Republicans continue to obsess with women’s reproductive health, with 694 proposed laws in the first three months of 2013.
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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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Israel forced Ethiopian Women to take Harmful Birth Control Drug
For a decade, Ethiopian Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel were forced to take the birth control drug, Depo-Provera, by injection.
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The Most Effective Dismantling of Reproductive Rights Comes From Stigma
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Newsweek Isn’t That Into Customers, Doesn’t Apologize for Coat Hanger Cursor
Newsweek isn’t apologizing for their coat hanger cursor, with which they mocked women’s lives. Instead, they send US customers to an anti-Obama article on the Daily Beast.
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Let’s Make Rush Limbaugh America’s Biggest Pro-Choice Fundraiser
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh called pro-choice organizations death squads. Let’s show Limbaugh the power of choice by making him America’s top pro-choice donor.
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The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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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.
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Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
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Complacent Female Conservatives Are Failing Womankind
Women on the right have been curiously silent during an assault on life and liberty that shows no sign of abating.
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The Republican War On Reproductive Rights Has Women Fleeing The GOP
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises…
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Republican Opposition to Abortion Based on Myths
Fundamentalist Christians claim that abortion is wrong, that their god is pro-life. But abortion isn’t condemned in the Law of Moses, and that contrary to the claims often made, the mother’s life had priority over that of the fetus.