Jeremy White for the International Business Times: “Rep. Lisa Brown has found a new venue. Brown, a Democrat who was barred from the floor of Michigan’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives after saying the word ‘vagina’ during an impassioned a…
Zack Ford of Think Progress reports: “This morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would extend employment protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. For the first time in the Senate’s history, a transgender witness testified on behalf of the bill.”
Irin Carmon writes for Salon: “‘Civil disobedience,’ is what they called for. Two prominent doctors…both professors at Harvard Medical School…were saying doctors should disobey some of the most common abortion restrictions.”
Jon O’Brien addresses the contraception debate for The Huffington Post: “The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) rarely lets the facts get in the way of their story.”
Dean Bakopoulos writes for Salon: “A new kind of class warfare is emerging in the Heartland, and it is one the Republicans have been so good at orchestrating in order to win elections.”
