A month or so ago, I wrote about a bill in Arizona (HB 2625) that would permit employers to opt-out of the so-called birth control mandate and interrogate their female employees about their sexual practices, all in the name of “religious freedom”: You see, if a female employee seeks a medical prescription for contraception, an …
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Kansas Bill Permits Doctors to Refuse to Administer Chemotherapy to Pregnant Cancer Patients
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill that literally prioritizes a doctor’s personal beliefs over women — currently alive, breathing women — by permitting doctors and other healthcare providers to refuse medical care to a pregnant woman if such care might end her pregnancy. And here’s the kicker: the healthcare provider would not be under …
Kansas GOP Wants to Tax Women for Abortion and Lie to Them; Bill Passes the House
The GOP-controlled House in Kansas passed a sweeping abortion bill that is easily the worst in the country. In March, I wrote the following about it: On Monday, the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee will continue discussing a bill similar to the one the Arizona Senate passed, which allows doctors to withhold from …
POWR-PAC Formed to Unite Ladies Nationwide, Pass the ERA
I’ve formed a political action committee the goal of which is to eradicate gender discrimination and inequality. Our first undertaking is the Team Uterati Wiki Project and will involve compiling a complete custom-built database of the 1100+ anti-choice bills that have popped up in states across the country. We are already underway — the Alabama …
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Where The Arab Spring Failed
Mona Eltahawy’s lightning bolt of a piece in Foreign Policy entitled “Why Do They Hate Us?” is staggering, heart-rending, depressing, and brutally truthful. She goes into candid detail on the treatment of women in the Middle East and why the world keeps looking the other direction. Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a …
Ann Romney: “Mitt respects women who make different choices.” #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement
During her campaign debut last week, and in response to Hilary Rosen’s comments that Ann Romney doesn’t understand the economic issues that working mothers face, Ann Romney said she “knows what it’s like to struggle,” (a statement which I refute here) and talked about choice: “And I think that all of us need to know …
I like a series of skirmishes better than a war, turns out
We made some Obama organizing calls last Tuesday night, before pundit-gate, so I’ll go ahead and give you my take on the war on women because I haven’t seen it anywhere. Maybe I’m alone in this, who knows. We had five callers Tuesday. Four were women. All of the women mentioned the war on women. …
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