Maternity Care Crisis in Southeast Pennsylvania
Feminists are used to fighting for reproductive rights- for access to family planning services and contraception, for adequate health and sex education for our youth, and for access to safe abortion....
View ArticleRepresentative Babette Josephs on Women in Politics
From her early days as Executive Director for Pennsylvania’s NARAL, to promoting energy conservation, to tireless advocacy for civil rights, public schools, and a more open and transparent government,...
View ArticleAmericans Embrace the Party of No
Well it’s a suck day for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Sestak lost, Onorato lost, the Democrats lost the state House and nationally, the US House. Expect more gridlock. Despite the fact that this...
View ArticleBlame the Witches
Back in the 1500s, if there was a devastating plague or drought, religious authorities recommended a sound purging of the bad elements: Burn the witches and prosperity will return. So religiously...
View ArticlePA Ultrasound Bill on Hold in the House
Republican Leader of the State House Mike Turzai held up the ultrasound bill, HB 1077. It is wildly unpopular. Here’s a comment from He Visto Todo that captures the disbelief: “And this idea is being...
View ArticleVoter ID Bills Disproportionately Disenfranchise Democrats
Voter ID bills are on my mind today. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, is poised to sign a new state Voter ID bill into law today. Introduced by foaming-at-the-mouth radical right...
View ArticlePA Governor Tom Corbett on Forced Ultrasounds
Women should “just close your eyes.” Women say Corbett should “just close your mouth!” Tweet Pin It
View ArticlePA House Leader Turzai: Voter ID bill will win PA for Romney
Last week, PA Representative and House Majority Leader Mike Turzai bragged to a group of supporters that the Republican-led General Assembly had passed all sorts of laws on the conservative agenda,...
View ArticleSequester State by State
There’s a lot of info around the ‘net about the nuts and bolts effects of the looming “Sequester,” a deal struck by Congress during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations about the US debt limit back in 2011....
View ArticleGosnell Has Gotten Two Years of Press, Bills Enacted in Reaction
The Internet is alive with indignation that the “mainstream media” is ignoring the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the unlicensed physician and abortionist who ran a clinic in West Philadelphia for 31 years....
View ArticlePennsylvania House Bans Abortion Coverage in State Insurance Exchange
In yet another bid to “protect” women from having access safely, and legally to their constitutional right to an abortion, the Pennsylvania Republican-led State House passed HB 818, a bill to ban...
View ArticleCorbett to Sign Bill Banning Abortion Coverage in Obamacare
From the moment after the 2010 elections, the Pennsylvania Republican dominated General Assembly has been hard at work to pass this worthless law that throws women to the wayside. It was literally the...
View ArticleFeminism In Philadelphia: The Glory Years
Last Spring the New York Times lamented– in the Fashion & Style section – that the women’s movement had not found another Gloria Steinem, one dynamic leader to be the “voice of feminism” as if...
View ArticlePA Lawmakers Roll Out Agenda for Women’s Health
Harrisburg, December 11, 2013 – Members of the Pennsylvania Senate and House Women’s Health Caucuses unveiled an ambitious first round package of bills to kick off their proactive Agenda for Women’s...
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