Amanda Marcotte's blog

Sure, a bunch of Catholic leaders are making a lot of noise about Obama requiring Catholic hospitals and universities to refrain from discriminating against their female employees. But that doesn't mean American Catholics agree.

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Molly Dragiewicz explains the war on victims of domestic violence. The Florida primary escalates the anti-choice rhetoric, and Susan G. Komen steps in it big time, giving pro-choicers a huge moral victory.

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Anti-choicers claim to be looking out for women and for children, but their policy choices do nothing but to hurt women and children. A new study even shows how anti-choicers preferred policy would result in a much higher maternal mortality rate.

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Michael Kaufman tells us how to teach guys about feminism. Operation Rescue builds an overtly threatening website targeting abortion providers, and Anderson Cooper covers purity balls.

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The 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade should be a day of celebration, but instead it's a time where we look across the landscape and realize that women's perception of themselves as free human beings is seriously challenged. 

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What's going on with the Texas ultrasound law? A representative of the Center for Reproductive Rights explains. More on the now three-way battle between Romney, Gingrich and Santorum.

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Mitt Romney's troubling past assertions that his mother was pro-choice in 1970 are rooted in an ongoing tradition of male politicians using their female relatives to bolster their credibility with female voters. The problem is that it's really not that helpful. 

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Nancy Cohen explains how sex is polarizing Americans politically. The question of contraception comes up during the Republican debate, which sets the mainstream media ablaze on a subject we've been hammering for years.

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The job of journalists is to investigate, ask follow-up questions, and exhibit skepticism about the claims of politicians. So why are so many journalists refusing to do their job when it comes to reproductive rights?

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Jessica Valenti talks about her new documentary version of "The Purity Myth". A review of some comments made by candidates competing for the Iowa Caucus, and Michele Bachmann bows out of the race.

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