Well, here we go again folks. On Monday the Colorado Personhood Coalition submitted 112,121 signatures for a “personhood” amendment, of which 86,105 are required for advancement. This will be their third consecutive campaign to outlaw abortion rights in the state, and let’s hope it is their third defeat. As reported by the Huffington Post, Personhood [...]
Yesterday, the preventive health services portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or Obamacare, went into effect. The PPACA states that birth control is in fact a preventive health service, therefore requiring insurance companies to cover it without co-pays or deductibles. This means birth control with no co-pays y’all! This is a [...]
By Molly Bryant, Feminist Majority Foundation Intern This is Molly reporting here from Fargo, North Dakota for my first ever campaign. During my sophomore year of college (aka last year…) I was taken on as an intern with the Campus Choices Program for the Feminist Majority Foundation. Awaiting my quickly approaching start date, I received [...]
Once again Catholic institutions have decided to take young women’s choices and lives into their own hands. Several Catholic institutions, dioceses and charities across the country have filed lawsuits against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) federal mandate that requires employers to provide birth control coverage in their health plans. Although insurance companies [...]
While some of you might be basking in the sun or working your summer job on June 2nd, the American Life League will be taking to the streets for “Protest the Pill Day.” On the website it says they want people to be “organizing a protest in your community at Planned Parenthood or another facility [...]
UPDATE (3/19/12 @ 1:03 PM): New action!! Head over to Say It, Sister! (National NOW’s blog) for more info about taking action to tell the Missouri state government a Rush Limbaugh statue is NOT OK!! Also, at last count there were over 150 advertisers who dropped Rush!! UPDATE (3/12/12 @ 12:51 PM): According to Media [...]
The Feminist Campus Team is outraged this morning after hearing Rush Limbaugh’s vicious and inappropriate attacks waged at Sandra Fluke. Fluke is the outspoken and courageous Georgetown Law student who has advocated for birth control coverage without co-pays or deductibles for students and employees of religiously-affiliated institutions. Sandra was denied a seat at the table [...]
Post by Feminist Majority Foundation Intern Yasemin Ayarci The Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States are, for the most part, a hierarchy of privileged, white men attempting to make decisions regarding women’s health. That, in itself, is puzzling enough for many people. Most remarkably, we see that their recent opposition to birth [...]
We’ve all seen the picture. We know what’s wrong. It’s obvious. So obvious, in fact that it’s unbelievable that the Majority members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform didn’t see a problem with having a panel of five men to talk about birth control coverage! Even after the President announced implementation that [...]
Some Valentine’s Day present. This week, Senator Roy Blunt is introducing a radical amendment that would not only roll back birth control access but potentially women’s health and rights over 50 years. Act NOW – Congress is set to vote on this today! At the urging of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, opponents to [...]
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