“Half the committee ought to be women, even though women only account for 17 percent of the Congress> Women are going to be disproportionately affected by what the committee does. I’m very troubled by the fact that these 11 men and one woman are now goi…
“Suppose I am a teacher at a Catholic school, and I have diabetes and need to pay $100 a month for my birth control,” O’Neill says. “For my employer to not cover that on the basis of its own interests is sex discrimination of the most odious kind.”
Barbara Ehrenreich writes a new afterword for her famous book, reprinted on TomDispatch.com: “The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has indeed been criminalized…
Alicia Cohn
Kari Ann Rinker, Kansas NOW president, writes on RH Reality Check: “The national legislative assault against women, combined with Operation Rescue’s declaration of war against one of our few remaining physicians accomplished in later term abortions bring…