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TRUMP NOMINEE FOR OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (OVW) IS UNQUALIFIED AND DANGEROUS
We need YOUR HELP in sending an urgent message to your Senator to block the confirmation of Shannon Lee Goessling to head the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) in the U.S. Department of Justice.
NOW NEEDS YOUR HELP: TRUMP NOMINEE FOR OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (OVW) IS UNQUALIFIED AND DANGEROUS
We need YOUR HELP in sending an urgent message to your Senator to block the confirmation of Shannon Lee Goessling to head the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) in the U.S. Department of Justice. OVW administers grant programs that are established under VAWA, which are used to provide effective responses to violence against women. Read more …
Hillary’s Gay ‘Nephew’: ‘Aunt Hillary’ Helped Me Come Out
To see Hillary portrayed as an evil, conniving criminal is baffling to me.
Transgender 101: A Guide to Gender and Identity to Help You Keep Up with the Conversation
Let’s break down the basics of gender, gender identity, and yes, do some much-needed Transgender 101.
ISSUE ADVISORY: Whole Woman’s Health Ruling Will Help Stop TRAP Laws
Supreme Court in ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (WWH) signaled one of the most significant victories for reproductive rights in several decades. By deciding that any law or regulation that does not advance women’s health – as is the case with the two TRAP laws in Texas – a majority on the Court greatly strengthened the standard by which women’s health advocates can seek to have courts permanently enjoin similar restrictions in other states.
I Stand With Planned Parenthood Because It Helps So Many Stand for Themselves
By Marandah Field-Elliot, Government Relations Intern I have always been a paranoid person. A lock-the-doors-twice, never-even-think-of-trespassing, glass-of-water-between-drinks-at-a-party type of person. So, one Tuesday when I forgot to take my daily birth control until three hours past I was supposed to, I saw a life of teenage pregnancy flash before my eyes — my impending college Read more …
Preventing domestic violence could help economy
Article about efforts in Wisconsin to support victims and survivors of domestic violence; a lack of funding for these organizations results in many survivors going without the resources and support they need. Image of members of the The National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Task Force to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Against Read more …
A Mother in Jail for Helping Her Daughter Have an Abortion
On Sept. 12th, Jennifer Whalen, a 39-year-old mother of three in the rural town of Washingtonville, Pa., went to jail to begin serving a 9-to-18-month sentence. Whalen’s crime was, in effect, ordering pills online that her older daughter took in the first several weeks of an unplanned pregnancy, when she was 16, to induce a miscarriage.
Obama Deploys Military Personnel To Help Find Missing Nigerian Girls
Hayes Brown writes for Think Progress: “The White House on Wednesday announced that it would be sending 80 U.S. military personnel to help take part in the international effort to find more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls, a reversal from previously insisting that no military forces would be involved in the hunt.”