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The White House issued a statement on Monday threatening to veto a House bill that would ban abortions in the United States after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
While the internet can be a powerful means of raising feminist consciousness and enacting social change, it comes with a price for feminist activists.
Congressional Women's Softball Game, Kirsten Gillibrand, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kelly Ayotte, Capitol Hill, Roll Call, Abby Livingston, Cancer, Breast (Come check out the Congressional Softball Game next Wednesday!
Hopefully, with this decision, women all over the country will soon be able to walk into a pharmacy and pick up emergency contraception off the shelves, as soon as they need it -- no barriers, no shame.
20-year-old student who is still in school admits she was drinking heavily the night of the incident, but says that does not change the facts
In the New York Times on Wednesday, Joshua Lang took a detailed look at the work of demographer Diana Greene Foster, who has spent close to five years studying what happens to women who are denied abortions.
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to prevent an anti-abortion law that could threaten to close three out of the five clinics in the state from going into effect July 1.
If Republicans had hopes of shoring up their credibility with women voters ahead of the midterm congressional elections, today’s hearing in the House Judiciary Committee may have just dashed them, especially when Rep.
The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Carl Levin, has just voted down an amendment championed by Kirsten Gillibrand which would have stripped from the chain of command the decisions on prosecuting sexual assaults in the military.
The battle lines that have been drawn on the issue of what to do about sexual assault in the armed forces between those on the side of the Pentagon who don't want fundamental reform and do not want to take this outside of the chain of command versus an insurgent group of senators, led by Senator Gillibrand, who do. Senator Barbara Boxer of California joins Chris Hayes on the setbacks as well as the positive developments.
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Last year alone, the Defense Department estimates a shocking 26,000 instances of unwanted sexual contact and sexual assault occurred in our military. Tell Congress to act today.
According to the anti-choice action group, "tons of doctors" approve of the new anti-choice bills mandating how physicians interact with patients. But national and state physicians' groups are not on board.
Video on msnbc.com: Joanna Coles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan shares her thoughts on women in the military, the proposed abortion ban and Sen. Claire McCaskill’s support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Republicans continue to attempt to restrict the rights of women even as some in GOP complain. Women will remember in upcoming elections and vote many out.
Women may start training as Army Rangers by 2015, and the United States may have its first female Navy SEAL come 2016, according to plans announced by the Pentagon to begin training women for thousands of front line jobs previously closed to them,...
Trent Franks' federal 20-week abortion ban is a dangerous piece of legislation, based on false and completely disproven assertions about fetal pain.
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Video on msnbc.com: Chris Hayes gives thanks to the feminist movement for not only affecting the role of women in society, but for creating conditions in which fathers get to spend more time with their kids.
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As the news media scrambles to dramatize the government’s level of surveillance on U.S. soil, I MUST ask, where was the media when the Patriot Act was passed? Or when the provisions added to National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allow detention of US Citizens without charge or counsel?
And Congress, why have you spent so much time voting to affirm “In God We Trust” (the cold war answer to E Pluribus Unum) instead of looking at things like this? I must laugh or I will cry. And you? Let's talk about this here, and today on LUNCH WITH LOUDEN, 12 Noon Pacific, http://tobtr.com/s/4841111,
(blog post at http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/in_dog_we_trust_in_congress_not_so_much)
If you ever doubt your voice could make a difference remember this name: Trina McDonald.
Abortion opponents are chipping away at reproductive rights from all angles — and one particularly insidious attack on women’s health is currently advancing in states across the country.
Via Charles Lang
Judge Edward Korman tonight approved the Obama Administration’s plan to make emergency contraception (EC) available over the counter, a necessary step required by the court in the ongoing saga to make a simple, effective, and safe method of...
It only took a few minutes for the Wisconsin senate to sweep through a forced ultrasound bill that would also likely close the only abortion provider in the northern half of the state.
Residents of North Dakota are getting a lesson in just how expensive it is to defend an unconstitutional abortion ban.
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