HR 358
Back to Sunday School: A Rabbi and a Minister Unpack 'Personhood'
by Elissa Strauss, Sisterhood at the Forward.com
and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
and Rev. Chloe Breyer, The Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY)
November 4, 2011 - 1:57pm (Print)
I emailed a rabbi and a minister about the "divine laws" that Mississippi personhood advocates are trying to encompass in Initiative 26. Turns out some Mississippians could use a Sunday school refresher course.
HR 358, The Let Women Die Act of 2011, Is Tantamount to Legal Rape
by Lorraine Berry, SUNY Cortland
October 26, 2011 - 8:25am (Print)
When it comes down to it, these laws represent legal rape. If rape is the insertion of an object into the body of an unwilling person, then what else can you call laws insisting that a woman submit to pregnancy regardless of her age, the circumstances under which she became pregnant, her health, or her general well-being?
How HR 358, the Let Women Die Act 2011, Violates International Human Rights Standards
In Nicaragua, after a total ban on abortion was passed, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy was allowed to languis in a hospital, waiting for her fallopian tube to rupture before a doctor agreed to operate even though there was no doubt regarding the outcome of her pregnancy. This is the world that Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) would like to bring to America with the passage of H.R. 358, the Let Women Die Act of 2011.
Weekly Pulse: The Republicans' War on Women
by Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check
April 13, 2011 - 9:27pm (Print)
Last week the fate of the entire federal government revolved around birth control. Yes, birth control. Analysis of the ongoing war against women being waged in Congress and in state legislatures nationwide.
(VIDEO) MoveOn.org Takes On GOP Threats to Women's Lives
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
February 17, 2011 - 9:59am (Print)
MoveOn.org is taking on the GOP's efforts to strip women of their basic rights and to eliminate access to reproductive health care.
Follow Jodi Jacobson on Twitter, @jljacobson
McDermott to GOP: Get Out of the Doctor's Office!
by Amie Newman
February 16, 2011 - 6:53pm (Print)
Rep. Jim McDermott, Democrat from Seattle, WA, shares his frustration with the anti-choice, anti-woman rash of "radical extremism" reflected in a host of House bills and proposals.
Attention Ladies: John Boehner Wants to be Your Pimp
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
February 16, 2011 - 6:59am (Print)
After years of wandering in the desert, trying to figure out why Republicans are and have been so hell-bent on controlling our bodies, it suddenly dawned on me. John Boehner and the House GOP want to be your pimp.
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Waxman and Pallone Ask "Where's the Constitutional Authority" on H.R. 358?
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
February 11, 2011 - 6:01pm (Print)
Congressmen Henry Waxman and Frank Pallone ask Joe Pitts to withdraw H.R. 358 unless he can cite "constitutional authority," a requirement imposed by the GOP majority in early January, and supposedly applicable to every piece of legislation in the 112th Congress except, apparently, those that strip women of their rights.
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Anti-Abortion Laws: Big Brother's Invasion of Women's Rights
In the days leading to the November mid-term elections, the highly charged issues were government intervention in health care (ObamaCare), the soaring fiscal debt and the lack of jobs. Republicans promised that their first priorities were jobs, jobs and jobs. Next they would tackle health care by introducing a better plan for Americans. In the time that they have been in office, the only decisive action is ---- against women.
Afternoon Roundup: Ohio Right to Life Says "No Thanks" to Anti-Choice Heartbeat Bill
by Amie Newman
February 8, 2011 - 7:46pm (Print)
HIV exposed babies who don't contract the disease face greater danger from other diseases; Texas reels back a heinous abortion bill to be something minorly less heinous; Ohio Right to Life says no thanks to the "heartbeat" bill; and more Democratic Senators speak out against the wave of anti-woman, anti-health care mania that's swept the GOP.
