The Senate’s defeat of the so-called “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act” today saved countless U.S. women from being denied contraception coverage in their employee health plans.
The Republican presidential primaries are offering a disturbing glimpse into the supposed conservative vision for this country. In this right-wing utopia, women will no longer be able to exercise the right to control their bodies, plan their families or safeguard their own health. The church and the state will tell women what is best for them, and religious entities’ “liberty” will consistently trump individual women’s right to live and work free from discrimination and in accordance with their own religious and moral beliefs.
Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “I was getting ready to write something nice about Rick Santorum. Then Rick Santorum talked me out of it.”
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post writes: “Gov. Rovert F. McDonnell and some of his fellow Virginia Republicans are shocked, shocked. It turns out that legislation mandating a costly, coercive, medically unnecessary ultrasound procedure would be…
Irin Carmon writes for Salon: “Unable, apparently, to convince the public that women having sex without ‘consequences’ is inherently bad for society, conservatives have taken to claiming that increasing access to contraception won’t actually prevent abor…
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