War on Women

Is There Really A War on Women or Are Men Just Being Stupid?

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Congress, Violence Against Women, War on Women, Obamacare, Feminism, Roe v. Wade, Equal Pay Act, Politics News

When House Republicans stall on reauthorizing and expanding the Violence Against Women Act, they are blinding themselves to the everyday experiences of women's lives.

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Friday Talking Points -- Economic Messaging

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2012

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OK, we understand that this is garden-variety election pandering to the Tea Party base and all of that, but we feel duty-bound to offer up a little garden-variety ridicule to go with it.

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BREAKING ECONOMIC NEWS: GOP to Sponsor Innovative Women's Program

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Equal Rights, Economic Growth and Development, Pregancy, Right to Privacy, War on Women, Health Care, Mitt Romney, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Sponsor a Uterus, Barack Obama, Video, Comedy News

Anonymous sources think that the GOP is seriously considering officially adopting the Sponsor a Uterus program as part of their economic stimulus agenda.

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Memorializin' the War on Women

Susie Sampson | Posted 05.25.2012

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On this Memorial Day Weekend, I wanted to see what kind of sin those liberal Americans were up to. And I wanted to hear a little more about that pesky War on Women. Is that really a thing? Or does it just sound good to say?

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Friday Talking Points -- Good Enough for My Money

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.18.2012

It was a somewhat eclectic week in politics. The House -- in one of their rare moments when they actually meet and attempt to get something done -- passed a bunch of bills which have exactly zero chance of becoming law. Well, at least they had fun, right?

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More Hypocrisy From GOP's Crack Team of Health Care Con Artists

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Women, Obamacare, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Gop, Health Insurance, Health Care, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Politics News

The Republican leaders in Congress have mostly defined themselves by what they're against, but now they've announced what they're for -- the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act. I can only imagine the political identity crisis this is causing within the GOP.

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Game Change: How About a War FOR Women?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: War on Women, President Obama, Gender Roles, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Gay Marriage, Economy, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, Identity, Feminism, Women's Leadership Forum, Workplace | Tagged Barnard, Women News

I sometimes wonder if we've been so busy defending ourselves from recent assaults that we've become too distracted and too exhausted to regain our forward momentum.

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WATCH: The Best Of Colbert's War For Women

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.18.2012

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The so-called "War On Women" has been elevated to the forefront of national discourse after continuing disputes over stay-at-home moms, birth control ...

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House Passes Violence Against Women Act That Leaves Out LGBT, Immigrant Protections

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday passed their bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, despite protests from the White House, m...

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The War on Sex for Pleasure

Beth Burkstrand-Reid | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: GOP War on Women, Contraception, Obama Contraception, War on Women, Women's Issues, War on Sex, Sex, Politics News

Reproductive health services are important because the act of sex is important. But it is very unlikely that we will soon see elected officials admit en masse that they like having sex with their spouses and (by God!) birth control should be therefore be accessible for that very reason.

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Women: We Want You on the Political Battlefield

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women and Politics, Democratic Women, Current TV, Maggie Hassan, War on Women, Emily's List, The War Room With Jennifer Granholm, Women in Politics, Video, Glass Ceiling, Politics News

If Maggie Hassan, a Democratic candidate for governor in New Hampshire, isn't elected, there will be zero Democratic women governors in the United States. Not one.

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The War on Women... and the War Within Women

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.15.2012

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"Femininity" is women's past, and "feminism" is our present. What I mean by this is not what you might think -- I'm not pitting family and children against career and culture, or wanting a push-up bra versus wearing no bra.

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Are You ___ Enough?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.15.2012

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Would a man's choice to embrace his traditional breadwinning role with gusto be marked as an end to progress, or to opt out of parenthood as a harbinger of the downfall of society as we know it?

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GOP Congresswoman: Violence Against Women Act Shouldn't Cover Same-Sex Couples

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the vice chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus, said Monday that the Violence Against Women A...

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Top 5 HHS Programs Endangering Women and Children

Anne Stevenson | Posted 05.14.2012

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The so-called "War on Women" is raging, and billions of your tax dollars are being misused to fuel it via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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These Breasts were Made for Feeding

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.14.2012

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It doesn't surprise me that breastfeeding has come to the fore in the public consciousness. It fits right in with the resurrection of the war on women.

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Candidates' Extreme Views On 'War' Have 'Woken A Sleeping Giant'

AP | PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 05.12.2012

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DENVER -- Wanda Ramey stood on the University of Colorado campus, cane in one hand, "Close The Pay Gap" sign in the other. The rally for equal pay amo...

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Breastfeeding is a Choice, Let's Treat it that Way

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Posted 05.11.2012

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We have reached a point where the same women who speak angrily of the "war on women" when it comes to family planning don't hesitate to criticize women who choose not to breastfeed.

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50 Shades of Politics

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.11.2012

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by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure While our government schemes to limit women's access to contrac...

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One Chance for a Democratic Woman Governor

Stephanie Schriock | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Women in Politics, War on Women, 2012 Election, New Hampshire, Elections 2012, Maggie Hassan, Female Governors, Emily's List, Governor, Politics News

Women legislators recognize the difference between legislating for women and families and legislating at them. When more women hold office it changes the conversation. It changes from a conversation about women to a conversation with women -- and that difference is huge.

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Of Bedrooms and Boardrooms

Robert Reich | Posted 05.10.2012

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America's real problems have nothing to do with what we do in our bedrooms and everything to do with what top executives do in their boardrooms and executive suites. Our crisis has nothing to do with private morality. It's a crisis of public morality.

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BREAKING NEWS: Republicans Announce, "We Just Plain Forgot Women Can Now Vote"

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Mommy Wars, War on Women, Political Humor, Satire, Abortion Rights, Comedy, Comedy News

Earlier today a senior policy advisor to the Republican Party was thought to have said the following: "You know, we forgot. I mean, we knew that the 19th Amendment passed, but, what can I say, it was an abstraction."

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Pastor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.08.2012

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Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women ...

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Our Daughters' Future

Eric Segall | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Women, Birth Control, Women's Health, Contraception, War on Women, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

Between us, we are the fathers of four daughters and the reality is that the youngest are growing up in a country where women have less rights and personal autonomy than when the oldest was born.

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Former Gov Slams Bachmann's 'Perfectly Ridiculous' Claim

Posted 05.06.2012

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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ripped into Michele Bachmann on Sunday, calling the Republican congresswoman's prediction that women will vote for Mit...

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