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Wear a Trust Women Silver Ribbon, Spread the Word, Take Action
Saturday marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. This landmark ruling, along with the earlier Griswold v. Connecticut, recognized a constitutional right to privacy and protected a woman's right to...
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Horrible, Terrible Anti-Choice Bill Now Only Terrible
The House GOP met with widespread outrage last week when the news broke that a radical anti-abortion bill it is backing would, among other things, exclude many instances of rape from already very...
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New Legislation Threatens Critical Women’s Health Services
In wake of Live Action’s smear campaign against Planned Parenthood, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced the “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.” Pence’s bill would cut off funding to Planned...
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Women in Congress Speak Out on Attacks on Women's Health
Last night, as the House debated an amendment from Rep. Mike Pence that would strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, some women in Congress responded with personal stories.Rep. Jackie Speier of...
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The Corporate Discount: Who the Republican Spending Cuts Really Benefit
In the Huffington Post today, People For the American Way's President Michael Keegan connects the extreme pro-corporate policies being pushed by federal and state GOP officials with the new liberty...
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Health Care Providers Fear GOP Plans to Defund Planned Parenthood
As congressional Republicans attempt to pass measures to end funding to Planned Parenthood and the Title X program, health care providers fear the devastating consequences for women and health care...
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Pence Admits to Using Women’s Health as a Bargaining Chip
NPR reports today on Republican efforts to gut funding to Title X family planning clinics, which “serve 15 percent of women in the United States who obtain contraceptive prescriptions or supplies, or...
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Why do YOU pay more taxes than G.E.?
Do you pay taxes? Guess who doesn't. America's largest corporation: General Electric. G.E. did not pay any taxes on their $14 billion in profits last year and instead got a $3 billion tax refund.1 But...
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Pandering for the Primaries, Pawlenty Tacks Right
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty officially launched his presidential campaign today in Iowa. Although he has been campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire for a couple of years now, you may not...
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House Votes to Defund Health Centers that Train Abortion Providers
The House has passed an amendment that would withdraw federal funding from health centers that teach abortion techniques. The sponsor of this proposal, Rep. Virginia Foxx, who previously asserted that...
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Video: Peter Montgomery on the Marriage of the Religious Right and the...
The Al Jazeera program Fault Lines takes an in-depth look this week at the increasingly close relationship between the Religious Right and the Corporate Right, and how it’s playing out in the...
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Aspirin as the New Birth Control: The GOP War on Women Reaches New Lows
Last year, right-wing lawmakers attempted to defund the entire $317 million federal family program and tried to redefine "rape." Well, the War on Women's Health is back -- and now it's a flat-out,...
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Concerns that Citizens United May Impact Your Access to Birth Control
What does Citizens United have to do with women’s health care? According to a decision last week from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, perhaps more than you may think. Just a week after the Tenth...
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The Challenge of “Both-And” Policymaking
People For the American Way Foundation’s Twelve Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics is grounded in our commitment to religious liberty and church-state separation, and in the recognition that...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Legislature Approves 'Women Can't Think on Weekends' Bill
South Dakota’s state senate today passed a bill that would extend the mandatory 72 hour waiting period women face when seeking an abortion in the state to specifically exclude weekend days and holidays...
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Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Launches ‘It’s Time’ Campaign
At a standing-room-only event at the National Press Club today, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice launched a new campaign designed to shift the public conversation about religion and...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Legislature Approves 'Women Can't Think on Weekends' Bill
South Dakota’s state senate today passed a bill that would extend the mandatory 72 hour waiting period women face when seeking an abortion in the state to specifically exclude weekend days and holidays...
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