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…
Adele M. Stan writes for AlterNet: “It says quite a lot about the state of the Republican Party that the right-wing extremist Rick Santorum — a politician so despised by his own Pennsylvania constituents that he lost his U.S. Senate seat by an 18-point…
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…
NOW Action VP Erin Matson’s letter appears on RH Reality Check: “As a graduate of Georgetown University and advocate for women, I write to express my horror with the actions of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the matter of contraceptive covera…
Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate: “This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion.”
