Women’s reproductive health care advocates can rest easy for the moment, as Congress has passed a resolution to continue funding the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year that does not include such onerous anti-woman provisions as the re-imposition of the Global Gag Rule.
The possibility that Standard and Poor’s (S&P) could downgrade its AAA rating of the U.S. government’s credit-worthiness was supposed to send shudders through Congress and the investment community. The fairly obvious message to Congress was to press forward with draconian plans to cut hundreds of billions out of the budget, and eviscerate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as well as make deep cuts in hundreds of social programs that protect middle and low-income families.
Happy Equal Pay Day! What is Equal Pay Day you might ask? Equal Pay Day is a public awareness event which symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to be paid what men were paid in 2010. So today, April 12, 2011, after 75 extra days of waged work, the average working woman has finally been paid as much as the average working man received last year. Woo Hoo!
How “free speech” has come to be interpreted as a right to deny a safe and legal prescription and directly control the inner workings of another person’s body is an inexplicable overreach, and judicial activism of the worst kind. It is also sexism, as it is directed only toward women.
NOW Membership VP Allendra Letsome asks: Why do TV shows about and for young adults often include gay male characters from the start, but take their time introducing lesbian characters?