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FILTER RESULTS ►Ahead on the 6/18 Maddow show
Tonight's guests include: Adele Stan, senior Washington correspondent for RH Reality Check Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty advocate and author of “Dead Man Walking” And here is executive producer Bill Wolff with a preview of tonight's show:
An Abortion by Any Other Name: Beatriz and the Global Anti-Choice Spin Machine
Written by Editor in Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check.
Yesterday in El Salvador, Beatriz (a pseudonym) had an abortion. The Catholic Church and the international anti-choice movement are desperate to deny this reality, so the anti-choice spin machine is in high gear, engaging in linguistic gymnastics to suggest otherwise.
And much of the media is taking the bait.
Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Feeling Criminal
Has this week got you feeling like a criminal? Read on! Is this teen pregnancy campaign that features pregnant dudes progressive or backwards? XOJane If you want to read a great persepctive on it, check out RH Reality Check. Get your intersectional feminism right here: Black Girl Dangerous. Show More Summary
Update on #SaveBeatriz: El Salvador Ordered to Provide Beatriz Access to Life-Saving Care
Via RH Reality Check: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, the highest human rights court in the Americas, handed down Thursday a decision ordering the government of El Salvador to provide Beatriz with life-saving care. It ordered the state to provide the measures necessary to protect her life, health, and well-being, as well [Read more...]
Star Parker and the Gosnell Controversy: She Still Doesn’t Get it
This is a partial cross-post from RH Reality Check. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! (And also, hello, everyone!) Star Parker penned an op-ed for Newsday recently that demonstrated a stunning lack of understanding about the real meaning of “choice” and attempted yet again to blame the abortion rate in the Black community on Planned Parenthood and Black [Read more...]
Mike's Blog Round Up
RH Reality Check: The fallacy of rape, incest, and life endangerment clauses. Whiskey Fire:: It is not at all difficult to predict the effects of the latest scandals on any future election. The Moderate Voice: Can Chris Christie winShow More Summary
Mothers Fight Back
This post originally appeared on RH Reality Check. This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and like many of you, I will spend it at home with my family. I’m looking forward to the home-made cards and presents from my kids, and maybe the great gift of sleeping in an extra hour. As I enjoy this time, I’ll [...]
Bishops Tap Veteran of Islamophobic, Homophobic Legal Shop as Top Flack
Written by Adele Stan for RH Reality Check.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is part of a dangerous reframing of "religious liberty."
At a gathering of Catholics in his archdiocese last year, Cardinal Timothy M. Show More Summary
The Bishops’ Lawsuit: A Colossal and Purposeful Drain on Public Funds
Written by Bridgette Dunlap for RH Reality Check.
This week, the government filed an emergency motion in the New York Archdiocese's lawsuit against the contraceptive coverage mandate, requesting that the court halt proceedings and dismiss the case. The emergency is that the government is hemorrhaging money defending a regulation it will never enforce against the Archdiocese.
Bro-Choice Campaign: Men Can Speak on Abortion Only if They Support It
Washington, DC (LiveActionNews) — Recently, RH Reality Check published an article about Choice USA’s new “bro-choice” campaign. According to Andrew Jenkins, this campaign is designed to “lift up the work young men are already doing to challenge gender oppression in their own communities, and we’re recruiting more young men to do the same.” The article [...]
Michigan High School Chooses To Protect Its Star Basketball Player Instead Of His Rape Victims
The National Women’s Law Center is joining forces with a Michigan-area law firm to file a complaint on behalf of a young woman who was sexually assaulted by one of her high school’s star basketball players. As RH Reality Check reports, the complaint alleges that high school administrators did nothing to help advocate for the [...]
Judge Rules Anti-Choice Terrorist Can Claim Religious Protection for Conversations with Tiller Murderer
Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check.
On Friday U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten handed anti-choice terrorist Angel Dillard a win, ruling Dillard doesn't have to disclose "ministerial discussions" she had with Scott Roeder, the man convicted of murdering abortion provider Dr. Show More Summary
Jan Brewer is Leaving Those Planned Parenthoods Alone
Spray tan and finger-wag enthusiast Jan Brewer is doing something very non-Brewerish — she’s backin’ the hell up offa Planned Parenthood in Arizona. What?! I KNOW. Via Robin Marty at RH Reality Check: The local conservative and anti-choice policy group Center for Arizona Policy has inserted itself into the debate over Medicaid expansion by demanding [...]
Court Orders FDA to Make Emergency Contraception Available Over-the-Counter for All Ages
Via Jodi Jacobson at RH Reality Check: In a long-awaited decision released early this morning, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make emergency contraception available over-the-counter to women of all ages, marking a major win for public health and women’s rights in a year that has seen science [...]
With a Common Link of Violence, Anti-Choice Lobby Joins With NRA To Block Caitlin Halligan
Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check.
There's hardly a better snapshot of the modern-day conservative movement than the fight over the appointment of Caitlin Halligan. And it's ugly. Anti-choicers joined with anti-gun...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Stopping rape is a men's problem
Tara Murtha at RH Reality Check provided us with a good reminder that media, after more than 40 years of feminist activism and criticism, still has far to go in doing our society justice when the crime is rape. The violent assault on...Show More Summary
Texas Pushes Restrictive Abortion Regulations That Could Force More Than 60 Clinics To Close
Texas Republicans have introduced a measure to impose unnecessary, overly restrictive regulations on the state’s abortion clinics — a move that could ultimately force more than 60 clinics to close, as RH Reality Check reports. Even though the state senators pushing for the legislation claim it will “force abortion clinics in Texas to put women’s [...]
Ask Language Log: preference as a verb
Jessica Mason Pieklo, "Texas GOP Considers Turning State Into Tax Dodge Over Contraception Mandate", RH Reality Check 1/30/2013 (emphasis added): To be considered constitutional, a state tax generally cannot discriminate against interstate commerce. Show More Summary
South Dakota Bill Would Exclude Weekends And Holidays From 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period
South Dakota Republicans aren’t satisfied with imposing one of the nation’s longest waiting periods for women seeking abortions. As RH Reality Check reports, the state legislature will also consider a bill that would adopt a “business hours only” definition for its waiting period: while women wait the state-mandated three days before getting an abortion, weekends [...]
Hope Ankrom and Amanda Kimbrough: Victims of Alabama Supreme Court’s Zeal to Champion Personhood at the Expense of Women
My latest for RH Reality Check has been published. This case has me monumentally pissed off: Conservatives like to complain about judicial activism, which generally means, a judge issued a decision which they don’t like. I have grown to hate the term because it is used so frequently that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. Still, [...]
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