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Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. We echo this statement from NARAL: “Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed. We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”

How do your Twitter re-tweets break down by gender? Find out.

Shonda Rhimes is a national treasure. And I’m not just saying that because I’m coming off a Scandal marathon weekend.

Watch The Invisible War on PBS tonight.

An important piece from our own Eesha: “Can we prevail upon people to intervene as bystanders when the bystander’s community lacks confidence in the authorities it would call upon?”

MoJo interviews the woman who kicked off Anonymous’s anti-rape operations.

No words: “As easy as Nevada girls are, you see, Nevada’s Hispanic girls are really, really easy.”

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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