Tag Archives: reproductive health

Friday Roundup: How the sequester cuts will affect women, access to reproductive health

By Lori | Published: March 1, 2013
TweetThere’s not much to say about the sequester that hasn’t already been said (except, maybe, “Don’t ask me, I’m no sequexpert.” Ok, now that’s taken care of.) But hey, I’m just a blogger on a Friday afternoon trying to meet you where you’re at. And where you’re at is in sequester hell, whether you know [...]
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Monday Morning Feminist Fix: MHP Show on Michigan anti-choice super-bill (“vagina” included)

By Vanessa | Published: June 18, 2012
TweetRep. Lisa Brown, who was banned from speaking on the Michigan House floor last week for saying the word “vagina,” talked to Melissa Harris-Perry about the Michigan anti-choice super-bill passed last week, including our own Chloe, who rocked it as usual. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Transcript available [...]
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Mississippi Governor: Democrats’ ‘one mission in life is to abort children’

By Vanessa | Published: April 26, 2012
TweetOh yes, he did: Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R), in defending his decision to sign a bill that could shut down Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, told conservative radio host Tony Perkins on Tuesday that Democrats’ “one mission in life is to abort children.” “Even if you believe in abortion, the hypocrisy of the left that now tried [...]
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Quick Hit: Toxic workplaces in the reproductive health, rights, and justice fields

By Jos | Published: April 25, 2012
TweetSteph Herold has a brave and necessary piece at The Abortion Gang today about the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement’s dirty secret: we’re full of organizations that are toxic places to work. A co-worker once told me that in her 10+ years of working in the reproductive health field, her peers in other movements [...]
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Hey, Gov. Nikki Haley, wanna bet?

By Maya | Published: April 4, 2012
TweetAs Samhita mentioned, yesterday on The View, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley claimed that “women don’t care about contraception.” She went on to clarify that she just doesn’t want the government dictating when we can and can’t use it. Which is a little bit like opposing that law that says you have to eat broccoli. [...]
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