Elise Viebeck quotes a statement by Terry O’Neill, NOW president, in an article at The Hill: “Seven in 10 adults say the Supreme Court should not overturn its landmark decision establishing abortion rights, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll…
An article by the Associated Press in The Washington Post: “Across the nation, many events were scheduled Tuesday by advocacy groups on the two sides of the debate. The National Organization for Women, for example, planned a candlelight vigil at the Supr…
Jessica Valenti writes at The Nation: “For two weeks, Melinda Manning—a former dean of students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—was called again and again from school administrators hounding her about the school’s rape statistics. In a com…
Amanda Marcotte at Slate writes: “Notre Dame’s football team had the ghosts of two dead young women following it this past season. One of the women was an inspiration to us all, selfless as she lay dying from her terminal illness, her only wish for her f…
Richard Eskow, a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, writes at The Huffinton Post:”Here’s a thought experiment: What if a group of Social Security and Medicare recipients wanted to increase their benefits by, say, 1,000 percent, and propo…
