2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (353+ words) This past weekend, with very little fanfare, the Texas Republican Party voted to add a plank to their platform citing their desire to “protect fetal life from destructive practices, such as IVF and commercial surrogacy” — even though 65 percent of actual…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (821+ words) Over the last few years, the American Right has desperately tried to will into existence a world that they feel sufficiently punishes women for their sins. A world pretty much entirely divorced from the reality the rest of us have…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (850+ words) There was a time when people said that those likening the coming Trumpocalypse to The Handmaid’s Tale were being ridiculous and hysterical. No one was coming to kidnap all of the women and force them to breed children against their…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) The new guidance is the unholy (though also very holy) melding of RFK Jr.’s favorite buzzwords and bad ideas with anti-abortion rights, pronatalist, anti-LGBTQ+ buzzwords and bad ideas — and seems more likely to cause unplanned pregnancies than to prevent…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (634+ words) Good news! There’s a Republican in Congress who actually cares about water pollution! Bad news — she only cares about it in one very, very specific instance. Last week, Miller introduced the Clean Water For All Life Act, which would ban…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (710+ words) Last week, Tennessee state House Rep. Jody Barrett did what many likely thought was impossible — he advocated for an anti-abortion bill so obviously repugnant that even other Tennessee Republicans wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot-pole. Well, either that or they…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago   (844+ words) Back in 2012, Wyoming voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment meant to “protect patient choice,” stating that “each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.” Why? Because back then they were all het…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (142+ words) If you don't believe in human rights, just acknowledge it. If you believe that some people have more rights than others, own that too. If it's really okay, why not say these things out loud? And what the fuck are…...