Sarah Kliff writes for Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog on The Washington Post website: “About half of all unintended pregnancies are the result of contraceptive failure, where a condom breaks or birth control pills aren’t taken at the right time. The least expensi…
Erin Gloria Ryan writes on Jezebel: “As long as pregnancy and childbirth cost money, and time that could be used to make more money if it wasn’t being spent on kid-wrangling, a woman’s ability to control the size of her family is the most important econo…
Irin Carmon writes for Salon.com: “I’m a reporter covering women and politics and culture. But in a welcome freedom afforded by the Internet’s potential for full disclosure and genre complication, I’ve stopped pretending I don’t think that some policy id…
Today, the Republican Party demonstrated again why Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are wrong for women in the U.S. The party’s committee platform approved an abortion plank that champions a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution without mentioning any exception for rape, incest, or preservation of the health or life of the woman.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who is running against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill for Senate, didn’t make this idea up that women who are the victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant. (Akin was trying to defend his belief that abor…
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