Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women

Loretta J. Ross writes for On The Issues Magazine: “Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. Each showed a sorrowful picture of a black male child proclaiming, ‘Black Child…

Why are the Marines the Military’s Biggest Backers of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’?

Tammy S. Schultz writes for The Washington Post: “What is it about the Marines? Compared with the other services, why do a disproportionate number of them overtly resist ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’?”

Sources: Pentagon Group Finds there is Minimal Risk to Lifting Gay Ban During War

Ed O’Keefe and Greg Jaffe write for The Washington Post:”A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to t…

The Anti-Abortion Clinic Across the Street

Kathryn Joyce writes for Ms. magazine: “Crisis pregnancy centers set themselves up as innocuous ‘alternatives’ for pregnant women, but some are just steps away from abortion clinics and frequented by some of the most infamous anti-abortion extremists.”

Even Single Women, Longtime Dem Stalwarts, Shifted in ’10

Matea Gold and Jordan Steffen of the Tribune Washington Bureau, report in the Los Angeles Times: “Aja Sutter is the kind of voter the Democrats could not afford to lose this year. The 26-year-old physical therapist, part of a cohort of unmarried women th…