Tag Archives: reproductive health and rights
Colbert: Obama is using your tax dollars to create an “army of flesh-thirsty young sluts”
TweetStephen Colbert has been hitting it out of the park on “women’s issues” lately! Just last week we posted his take-down of those awful Summer’s Eve douche commercials. Last night, he turned his faux-Conservative outrage on the new Department of Health and Human Services policy that insurance companies must now cover birth control and other [...]
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Quick hit: Back the fuck off
TweetFrom the blog Speaker’s Corner, whose creator is also responsible for the brilliant Keep Your Boehner Out of My Uterus, comes this heartbreaking story of a woman who terminated a intended and very-much-wanted pregnancy when she discovered that the fetus had dire developmental problems. We went home. I called my parents. We were supposed to [...]
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You decide: Which anti-choicer takes the cake?
TweetIt’s time to play a little game I like to call “Which anti-choicer takes the cake?” It is not a fun game. But sometimes–like, for instance, when I can’t decide which horrible quote to blog about, it’s one we have to play. 1) In a Senate committee hearing last week, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky [...]
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National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers
Tweet Today is the 18th anniversary of the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was shot by Michael Griffin. Dr. Gunn was the first abortion provider killed in the US because of his job. Since then the violence has continued all the way up to the murder of Dr. George Tiller in 2009. Abortion providers [...]
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Tennessee County gives family planning grant to religious group that opposes family planning