If at first you don't succeed, hide it and hide it again; it the bill seems to be the GOP's new motto. Texas tried to sneak through anti-choice legislation at the end of a special...
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When legendary actor Dustin Hoffman was researching for his role in the hit movie "Tootsie," he had an "epiphany" about what it means to be a woman.
?I was shocked that I wasn't more...
Last month I wrote an article about how Texas labor laws adversely impact employee rights. I attempted to identify the ?right-to-work? moniker as an example of the irresponsible use of rhetoric by the Republican Party....
In a cringe-worthy ?TMI moment Rep. Michael Burgess admitted to watching male fetus masturbation during sonograms he performed during his work as an OB-GYN. He ?announced this to support HR 1797, a doomed bill that...
So all you conservative male legislators want to regulate every uterus, huh? Dictating what can go in and what can come out? Well, it's time to rally American women, who by the way are the...
Lately - and by "lately," I really mean since he's been governor of Texas - Rick Perry has committed so many vile political maneuvers and made so many stupid remarks, many of which have somehow...
The reasoning behind these abortion bills is not based on fact and has nothing to do with women's health.
Thanks to the phenomenon of social media, images of State Senator Wendy Davis' emotion-packed filibuster in Austin, Texas last month quickly ricocheted around the world. Thousands upon thousands followed the action live and, ever since,...
When we're questioning the Republican War on Women, are we ignoring the bigger picture? ?
In 1973 The Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade and settled the debate over abortion. Doing so provided a framework...
Is it possible that American feminism was born out of the same battle-scarred breath that gave birth to the country? The courage and valor, the feistiness and thrust for freedom that we see across the...
Rachel Maddow laid out the case in the abortion debate very succinctly on Meet The Press with David Gregory. In effect she made former South Carolina and current Heritage Foundation president Senator Jim DeMint look...
In the wake of Wendy Davis' filibuster against Texas' abortion bill, conservatives have been grasping at straws for reasons to justify this latest abortion ban.
One popular rationale is the case of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia...
Last night's victory was dubious at best. Wearing her now-iconic pink tennis shoes, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis' hours-long filibuster, coupled with protesters' deafening chants and cheers, managed to?prevent the Senate from voting on Senate...
The United States has seen a backwards slide of a woman's right to choose what she does with her body. Many states have adopted waiting periods before a woman can legally get an abortion. Many...
Christopher T. Beck gave twenty years of his life in exemplary service to the United States. A decorated Navy Seal, Beck was deployed 13 times, receiving a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart in the...
Just minutes after midnight on Wednesday, June 26, thousands of online spectators, myself included, watched in horror as the Texas Senate lost whatever credibility it might have had when it attempted to change the official...
As the visible presence of transgender people in society continues to increase, we probably shouldn't be overly surprised that young transpeople will also become more visible.? Yet, it's apparently a shock to some that transgender...
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