Robert Barnes writes in The Washington Post: “Mike Flood, the 35-year-old speaker of Nebraska’s legislature, had a problem: He wanted to stop the state’s well-known abortion provider from offering late-term abortions. A long line of Supreme Court precedents seemed to stand in his way. But Flood believes that a 2007 decision offers hope for him and other state legislators looking for ways to restrict abortion.”
A commentary by Minnesota NOW President Shannon Drury for the Minnesota Public Radio: “Last month, Huffington Post contributor Peggy Drexler posed the following question to her readers: “Will mean politics scare off good women?….I worry that women at…
Feminist blogger and author Jessica Valenti opines for the Washington Post about what the Julian Assange rape case reveals about how the American media and people really view rape and its victims: “Now, we don’t know if Assange is guilty or innocent – b…
Associated Press reporter Jessie L. Bonner writes about a little known Idaho rape-by-fraud law that could be changed in the next year’s state legislature: “A quirk in Idaho law that prevented an unmarried woman from pressing rape charges after she was tr…
Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), writes for The Huffington Post, “In trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, the president’s advisors added a payroll tax holiday to the tax agreement they were working out with the Republicans last weekend. After giving away Bush’s estate and income tax cuts for the uber rich, they sought to get…”
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