Advocacy: Call Your Senators!

Call:  Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Phone: 202-224-3542 Call:  Sen. Dean Heller Phone: 202-224-6244 Senator Jeff Sessions is a dangerous man. First he built a career on opposing civil rights. Now he’s mere days away from becoming America’s next Attorney General. Sessions is

Trump vs. Public Citizens

— by Robert Weissman — President, Public Citizen Here’s the strategy: We will uncover the corruption in everything Donald Trump does. We will call out Trump’s wholesale handover of our government to Big Business. We will expose Trump for his complete and utter betrayal of

A Historic Election for Women — and Not Just Because of Hillary

Thanks to Donald Trump, many women are speaking up about things they normally keep to themselves. — by Jill Richardson This election may be revolutionary for women for an unexpected reason. First woman president? OK, there’s that. But I don’t think there’s

What the GOP’s Supreme Obstruction Means for Women

Senate Republicans are leaving women in limbo on several crucial issues. — by Martha Burk, OtherWords.org author Senators, constitutional scholars may tell you, must “advise and consent” on the president’s Supreme Court nominees. But apparently the official GOP policy is to “refuse

American’s Health-Care System Endangers Mothers’ Lives

Maternal mortality is a domestic human rights crisis that kills hundreds of American women every year. — by Jennie Joseph Here in my tiny outreach maternity clinic on the west side of Orlando, we achieved in 12 months something that the U.S.

Your Server Isn’t on the Menu

For women who make their living off tips, sexual harassment is a constant workplace peril. By Marjorie E. Wood At a popular sit-down restaurant in Independence, Missouri, Allison waits tables for $3.60 an hour — the going rate for servers at her

A Deceptive Win on Plan B for Women

Our reproductive rights are still in danger. By Kathleen Robin Joyce Good news for advocates of sensible birth control policy: The Obama administration announced that it’s dropping the fight to impose an age restriction on sales of Plan B One-Step, the emergency contraception pill. Reproductive

REPUBLIBAN Approaching Ability to Impose Their Theocratic Beliefs on North Dakota Females

North Dakota Becomes First State To Ban All Abortions By Defining Life At Conception By Tara Culp-Ressler on Mar 22, 2013 at 3:00 pm North Dakota lawmakers voted on Friday afternoon to pass a “personhood” abortion ban, which would endow fertilized eggs

Kansas Bill Would Ban Abortion Clinic Employees From ‘Bringing Cupcakes’ To Their Child’s School

— by Stephen D. Foster Jr., 2013/03/08 at AddictingInfo.org Kansas Republicans are once again resuming their war against a woman’s right to choose and this time they are targeting abortion clinic employees in a very personal way. A Kansas House committee passed