Tag Archives: women’s rights
Virginia Delegate Englin pushes back against state sanctioned rape
My piece @ RH Reality Check Next week, Virginia Delegate David Englin (D-45) plans to change the conversation around the forced transvaginal ultrasound bill (or as we believe it is more accurately … Continue reading
Fetus Earrings and the problem with facts
“They make earrings out of them,” the teenage girl told me. Stone faced, pained. I remember her eyes looked like they were begging. She stretched out arm across the card table … Continue reading
Anti-Choicers issue pregnant lady APB
“Have you seen the pregnant mom? The young pregnant woman, probably in her 20′s, had a darker complexion with dyed red hair and tattoos on her neck and right shoulder. She also had some … Continue reading
Prop 26 and Cristen Hemmins
Proposition 26 is being voted on today in Mississippi. The initiative Mississippians are voting on would add this amendment to the state constitution: As of now, the vote is a … Continue reading
Its all connected – Herman Cain, Personhood, women’s rights
Today Mississippi votes on, and if all indications are correct, may pass the so-called ‘personhood’ amendment today, declaring a fertilized egg is a person. Mississippi is just the latest canvas … Continue reading
The new war on Sex Ed
Beware medically accurate comprehensive sex-ed! Wisconsin will be spending some precious time today – during what is supposed to be a special session focused on jobs – arguing on the floor … Continue reading
R.I.P. Viagra Amendment. But now that you mention it….
R.I.P. Viagra Amendment Senator Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, finally broke through the little blue ceiling with this proposed amendment – restricting federal funding of Viagra – to the Health Care … Continue reading
No Conceivable Defense: Calling on Kansas
Ron, Wichita Eagle Reporter, kind soul for putting up with my texting for trial updates, taking Saturday phone calls from this annoying New Yorker, Sylvester, and I exchanged a brief … Continue reading
Roeder looking at potential Manslaughter Defense in Dr. Tiller murder case
And so it begins. This morning the AP is reporting that the alleged murderer of Dr. Tiller in Kansas is considering a Voluntary Manslaughter defense. Scott Roeder is charged with … Continue reading
