Tag: Republican War On Women

NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

Filed in National by on February 12, 2012 27 Comments

The editorial in Saturday’s NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration’s ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn’t the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women’s health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

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Personhood – The Wedge Issue that Could Swing 2012

Filed in National by on November 9, 2011 7 Comments
Personhood – The Wedge Issue that Could Swing 2012

A lot of people are cheering the defeat of the Mississippi Personhood amendment yesterday. Its defeat marked the 3rd time since 2008 that this type of amendment has gone down in flames (the other two were in Colorado). But as Nick Baumann writes in Mother Jones, this is a grand plan by the GOP to continue fighting the culture wars.

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Public Enemy #1 – Women

Filed in National by on February 24, 2011 18 Comments

A Georgia legislator proposes a law to require women to prove that all miscarriages are not caused by human means. Which is pretty tough, considering women are human.

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