The 8-member U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case this Wednesday which could reinterpret the Court’s ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and be the deciding factor in whether women across America have access to legal abortion. Since 1992 Casey has held as the most important Supreme Court decision on abortion since Roe …
Read More »One Abortion Clinic Remains in Louisiana After Appeals Court Ruling
An appeals court in New Orleans ruled on Wednesday that a 2014 anti-abortion law will be upheld in the state of Louisiana. According to abortion rights groups, this order will lead to the closure of three out of four of Louisiana’s remaining abortion clinics. HB 388 was signed into law by …
Read More »Anti-Abortion Governor John Kasich Making Ohio Even More Unsafe For Women
Ohio Governor John Kasich signed House Bill 294 on Sunday, an anti-abortion measure designed to blocked Planned Parenthood from receiving funding. While the bill has very little direct impact on abortion services, it does block state grants and some federal funds that were intended for women and children’ health care …
Read More »Brazilian Lawmakers Want Harsher Penalties For Abortion In Facing The Zika Epidemic
In a report published today by Time magazine, Matt Sandy reported on the plans of Brazilian lawmakers to increase the penalties for abortion, despite the pleas of international bodies such as the UN to legalize abortion during the Zika epidemic. Brazil, like many Latin American nations affected by Zika, does …
Read More »House Republicans Argue Against Reproductive Rights For Women With Zika Virus In Developing Nations
At a congressional hearing about the Zika virus and its spread from the developing world, House GOP members spoke out against efforts to provide contraception and abortion access to women who have become infected by the viral strain known to cause severe birth defects. The $1.8 billion in emergency aid requested by …
Read More »Fired Staffer Accuses Trump And His Campaign Of Rampant Sexism And Wage Discrimination
File this one somewhere between “duh” and “would you really have expected otherwise?” A former staffer from Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign has alleged that the campaign pays women staffers far less than men working the same position and that sexism is rampant from top-down throughout the campaign organization. As first …
Read More »Obama Demands Pay Data To Monitor Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps
Now companies with 100 employees or more must disclose their pay data along with the gender, race and ethnicity of their employees, President Barack Obama ordered today. According to the president, black and Latina women are suffering the most from unequal pay practices. Disclosure of wages will make it easier …
Read More »Creator of Bikram Yoga Must Pay $6.5m In Damages For Sexual Harassment
The founder of Bikram yoga, 69-year-old millionaire Bikram Choudhury has been ordered by an Los Angeles court to pay $6.5 million to his former lawyer Minakshi Jafa-Bodden. Ms. Jafa-Bodden represented Choudhury from 2011 to 2013. She claims she lost her job because because she spoke out about his sexual harassment and …
Read More »Grand Jury Indicts Two For Illegal Recording Of Planned Parenthood Smear Video
Two anti-abortion activists for the group Center for Medical Progress were indicted by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas for their activities in secretly recording a video which purported to show Planned Parenthood employees illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. The same grand jury has stated that it has found no …
Read More »A bill is advancing in Florida which would make abortion a felony
Florida Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights has been trying every year since 2010 to introduce anti-abortion legislation; however, his proposals have never advanced to consideration by a committee. Monday Rep. Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami, the chairman of the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee has agreed to consider the bill. By an 8-3 vote Monday afternoon, a …
Read More »Prominent Tennessee GOP Lawmaker Resigns After Outed As A Serial Sexual Harasser
The Republican Majority Whip for the Tennessee House Of Representatives has agreed to resign his title – but not his seat – after being exposed sexually harassing three different women. Via Raw Story: State Rep. Jeremy Durham officially stepped down hours after the GOP leadership released a statement saying he was …
Read More »Video: Pres. Obama weighs in on the 40 states who tax tampons as a “luxury” item
President Obama didn’t know that women continue to be taxed on tampons in 40 U.S. states until asked about it by YouTube star Ingrid Nilson. In her interview with the president, Obama reacted, “I have no idea why states would tax these as luxury items. I suspect it’s because men were making the …
Read More »Anti-Abortion group behind shock videos sued by Planned Parenthood
Via Huffington Post: “Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco on Thursday against the anti-abortion activists that produced a series of heavily edited, secretly recorded videos of the family planning provider’s staffers talking about fetal tissue donations. The civil suit accuses the defendants — the anti-abortion group Center for Medical …
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