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This week in abortion news
TweetBad News: Alabama passed a bill which pretends to be about protecting women but is actually aimed at shutting down abortion clinics on Tuesday. The governor has said he will sign the bill, ironically called the “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” which requires that doctors preforming abortions be granted admitting privileges at local hospitals. Some of [...]
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Surprise! Another Republican says something offensive about rape (and there’s something you can do about it)
TweetWhat is it in the Republicans’ drinking water that makes it so hard for them to refrain from making offensive and ignorant comments about rape? And what is it that makes a party, which largely disavows science, think it can speak with any authority about anything related to science. Perhaps, we’ll never know. What we [...]
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Tweet Infographics show major dearth of female bylines. Conservatives are clearly scared of Ashley Judd’s political potential because they are trying to slut-shame her for her on-screen nude scenes. Oberlin “hot bed of liberal activism” College cancels classes on Monday and holds a “day of solidarity” after a string of hate-related incidents and vandalism. A [...]
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Want an RU 486 pill? That will be two forced trans-vaginal ultrasounds, please.
TweetRU 486 is a non-surgical early abortion medication that comes in the form of a pill and is generally used to end a pregnancy up to 10 weeks from a woman’s last period. So, naturally, a bill, approved by Indiana’s state Senate Health and Provider Services Committee on Wednesday, would require clinics to conduct trans-vaginal [...]
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Meet Alabama’s governor: an anti-choice, equal opportunity offender