Over 600 marches will take place in 57 countries around the world By Nika Knight The Women’s March on Washington on January 21 has gone global, with over 600 “sister marches” planned in 57 countries that same day, as an… Read More ›
Women’s rights
Scalia and Roberts don’t know best: Here’s how we take our politics back from reactionary court and billionaire donors
Right-wing justices have perverted our campaign-finance system. There’s a mechanism to reclaim it: The Constitution. By Jamie Raskin: Raskin is a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law, a Democratic state senator in Maryland and the… Read More ›
‘The Culture War’ — A Battle The GOP Can’t Win
By Leonard Pitts The argument is over and conservatives have lost. Some of them just don’t know it yet. That’s the takeaway from the remarkable events of last week wherein the states of Indiana and Arkansas executed high-speed U-turns —… Read More ›
Hobby Lobby Ruling Opened Floodgates For Indiana Discrimination Law
By: Rmuse – Wednesday, April, 1st, 2015 Nearly all parents attempt to teach their children from a young age that every one of their decisions in life will have consequences; no matter how inconsequential they may seem at the time…. Read More ›
Ultra-Orthodox Women in Israel Launch Their Own Political Party
By Miriam Krule When it comes to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, we tend to hear mostly about the terrible things that happen to them—from having to sit in the back of public buses to being banned from hosting or even… Read More ›
Secular vs Church Tenet
U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization – ProPublica A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations. The Vatican has an absolute prohibition on sterilization for the purposes of birth control. The U.S. Catholic bishops… Read More ›
Illegitimate newborns murdered and discarded
In Pakistan, abortion is illegal, and so is adultery – creating a situation where hundreds of children born out of wedlock are secretly killed each year. Their bodies are, literally, thrown out with the garbage. A child has just been… Read More ›
Iran Executes Woman for Murdering Alleged Rapist Despite International Campaign for a Retrial
By Daniel Politi in Slate Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said tried to rape her, ignoring an international campaign urging the country to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to… Read More ›
If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women in a Single Day
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some media attention, but most… Read More ›
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