The editors of The New York Times write: “It has been three years since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion. Emboldened, foes of reproductive freedom are pr…
Alec MacGillis write in Teh Washington Post: “As President Obama makes his final plea for a health-care overhaul, Democratic leaders in Congress are embarking on a delicate strategy to win over abortion opponents, a gambit that could determine whether th…
Cindy Cooper writes for On The Issues: “[H]ow is it that the mainstream media, including The New York Times, ABC and CNN, managed to sideline [Loretta] Ross on a topic on which she is the leading national expert – that is, the misogyny and duplicity behi…
Today the White House announced that it has set March 18 as the deadline for Congress to pass a final health care reform bill. President Obama has embraced the Senate’s version of health care legislation. This bill is no panacea for the nation’s broken health care system. It has major flaws that probably cannot be fixed within two weeks. However, the National Organization for Women is not about to give up — not with women’s basic human rights at stake.
Kirk Johnson writes in The New York Times about a new bill in Utah awaiting the governor’s signature or veto: “[C]ritics say legislation inspired by an unusual, perhaps even freakish criminal case, could open up a vast frontier around the question of int…
Tell the Senate to vote No on the SAVE America Act.