President-elect Trump has narrowed his short list to replace the late Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. Politico reports that there are now eight serious contenders. Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has made no secret of the fact that he opposes Roe v. Wade, both for its shoddy legal reasoning […]
Yesterday, Representative Paul Ryan announced that, as expected, the next federal budget will defund Planned Parenthood. Cue claims from major pro-choice organizations and your well-meaning facebook friends that funding for breast cancer screenings, birth control, STD testing, etc. is being cut and we must hate women. The truth is that the amount of money allocated […]
The theme for the second annual Pro-Life Women’s Conference is “Life Empowers Women.” Are you a mom who became pregnant under difficult circumstances? Are you alive today because the pro-life movement offered support to your mom? Are you a birth mother, adoptee, or adoptive parent? The organizers want to hear your stories about how life […]
I have a short and sweet response to those who claim that the United States cannot achieve equality for women without abortion: We’ve never tried. Here’s the longer version of that answer. When abortion was legalized in 1973, marital rape was legal. It was gradually criminalized on a state-by-state basis, finally becoming illegal in every U.S. […]
Shortly before Christmas, Salon published an article that surprised me. I almost didn’t read it, because I’m not a big Salon fan; it’s home to many anti-choicers-hate-women screeds, and I still have some lingering distrust from the publication’s anti-vaccine days (although there appears to have been some improvement on that front in the years since […]
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