Shorter Nancy Brinker: "We will not bow down. We will continue to defend our stupid, anti-gender equity decisions with evasive, almost comically disingenuous gibberish." By the way, since this new standard that any organization under a nuisance investigation by political opponents cannot receive funding was...
reproductive freedom
For an object lesson about why it infuriates me when the Dana Milbanks of the world assume that the forced pregnancy lobby has some sort of monopoly on assessing morality,.
I think it's safe to say that the answer to the key question here is "no": Can you trust a breast cancer organization whose staff and board lie about medical.
I'm sure you'll be surprised to know that I don't find E.J. Dionne's criticisms of the Obama administration's contraception coverage persuasive. For the reasons stated there it's not entirely clear what Dionne wants, but what he's advocating is either pointless or isn't a "compromise" but...
Clark-Flory: This explanation has been met with reasonable skepticism for a number of reasons. For one, the organization has faced increasing pressure from antiabortion activists to cut all ties to.
I had been meaning to get to Douthat's argument about how requiring employer-provided health care packages to provide coverage for contraceptives is the death knell of civil society or something..
Shorter Verbatim Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE): Contraception "is unrelated to the basic needs of health care."
For the birthday of Roe v. Wade, allow me to note again that it was a straightforward application (1, 2) of long-entrenched constitutional values, it has already been watered down.
Some excellent news from Jessica Arons: Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover.
This account of the Moroccan government's attempts to past modest reforms of the country's bad abortion laws provides yet another lesson in how abortion laws are even worse in practice than in theory: Morocco is one of the more liberal Muslim countries and allows the...
This won't be a surprise to longtime readers, but I agree 100% with Atrios about Perry changing his position to oppose abortion in cases of rape or incest. These exemptions.
Always a terrible idea. That, no coincidentally, always hit the women who can least afford it the hardest.