Showing posts with label contraception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contraception. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Trump appoints an anti-abortion activist, who does not believe that birth control works, to head up a federal family planning program for low income Americans.

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Teresa Manning. Courtesy of HuffPo :   Manning, a former lobbyist with the National Right to Life Committee and legislative analyst fo...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Parents file lawsuit against California school for teaching abstinence only sex education classes, and they win!

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Courtesy of HuffPo : A judge in Fresno County, California, has ruled against an abstinence-only sex education program, saying a school d...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Arizona school board member complains that Biology textbook violates her "religious rights." Decides to cut out offending pages. A little thing we call "censorship."

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Courtesy of The New York Times :   The textbook, the one with the wide-eyed lemur peering off the cover, has been handed out for years ...
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Monday, October 06, 2014

Hey do you know how Fundamentalists always say that life begins at conception? The Mayo Clinic would like to politely disagree with that.

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So for decades now the anti-abortion movement has been telling anybody who will listen, and many who are actively trying to run out of ear...
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Thursday, July 03, 2014

Don't forget bitchez, today is #HobbyLobbyLoveDay! Update!

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I actually tried to put this whole ridiculous thing out of my mind, but fucking Wonkette wouldn't let me:   We know that the Hobby ...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

My new go to guy for explaining Right Wing politics, John Oliver, explains the Hobby Lobby lawsuit. Update!

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Yes I realize that this aired the night BEFORE the decision, however it is still the best take on it that I have seen thus far. Oh, and ...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Just a reminder that Hobby Lobby may have abandoned women, but they have no problem providing for men. Update!

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Courtesy of HuffPo :   Hobby Lobby -- now free to drop emergency "morning after" pills and intrauterine devices from its worke...
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Thursday, May 01, 2014

Arizona pastor claims birth control "promotes whoredom."

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Courtesy of Raw Story :   Arizona Pastor Steven Anderson warned his congregation recently that birth control was not only turn women in...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Christian radio broadcaster James Dobson wins temporary injunction against requirement to provide access to emergency contraception to female emplyees.

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Courtesy of ABC 7 in Denver :   Christian radio broadcaster James Dobson has won a temporary injunction preventing the federal governm...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

The pro-life movement around the world thinks it is saving lives. But in fact it is helping to end them.

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Courtesy of the Thomas Reuters Foundation :   Unsafe abortion kills nearly 50,000 women a year, making it one of the major preventable ...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Hobby Lobby hypocrisy alert.

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Courtesy of Mother Jones :   Documents filed with the Department of Labor and dated December 2012—three months after the company's ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Senator Elizabeth Warren weighs in on the Supreme Court's upcoming Hobby Lobby decision and her prognosis is not good.

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Courtesy of Elizabeth Warren's blog :   Hobby Lobby doesn't want to cover its employees' birth control on company insurance ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Why the Supreme Court hearing the Hobby Lobby case next week should concern all of us.

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Courtesy of Slate : Most of the coverage of the case has focused on Hobby Lobby's objection to the contraception itself and how, if ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

New coalition of American religious leaders are speaking up in favor of abortions rights, contraception, and sexual education. Yeah, you heard that right!

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   On Wednesday, several religious leaders are launching a new campaign to reorient the conversation around...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

New Pope says that problem with the Roman Catholic Church is its obsession with abortion, homosexuality, and contraception. Wait, what did I just read?

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Courtesy of the New York Times : Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholi...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Since when do corporations have "religious rights?" Well, apparently since now.

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Courtesy of RH Reality Check :   After hearing arguments Friday, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton issued an order temporarily exempting Ho...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Perhaps the BEST letter ever written by an elected Republican politician.

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His name is Rep. Doug Cox and he represents District 5 in Oklahoma. That's right OKLAHOMA! Here is what rep. Cox wrote in a letter ...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Hopes that the new Pope might usher in a newer kinder Catholicism crushed as he reenforces crackdown on "feminist" nuns.

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Courtesy of Time :   The Vatican says Pope Francis supports the Holy See’s crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, who wer...
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Monday, March 04, 2013

In anti-abortion zeal Texas Republicans cut funds to family planning clinics, now scrambling to replace funding with realization those cuts may result in 24,000 additional births at a cost to taxpayers of 273 million.

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Courtesy of the New York Times :   The fight to restore family-planning financing that was cut from the Texas budget in the last legisl...
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Monday, February 04, 2013

Pastor claims that women who use the pill have "tiny fetuses embedded in their wombs" and serve as "graveyards for lots of little babies."

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From Americans Against the Tea Party : TEApublican radio host Pastor Kevin Swanson is certainly no scientist. On his radio show he clai...
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