Longtime conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is in the news again. This time, it’s because she has committed the cardinal sin–in the purist conservative rule
Tag: Women’s rights
Rape insurance abortion rider goes into effect in Michigan
Starting in late March, Michigan women really started feeling the affects of the “War on Women.” The state’s new law known as “rape insurance”—an
Please don’t call them suffragettes
When the conversation gets around to women’s history, and the subject is women’s struggle to win the right to vote, you’ll often hear the
The devolution of feminism
It saddens me that feminism has come to be associated with elderly Cat Ladies condemning the oppressive institution of matrimony in their solitary existence,
Women’s Strike Force PAC fights back against legislative assault
In response to the Virginia General Assembly’s legislative assault on women— “personhood” and mandatory ultrasound legislation—Republicans, Democrats and Independents have formed a PAC called
Republicans may lose the war on women’s bodies
The war on women’s bodies is back in full swing. The Catholic hierarchy is trying to equate contraception with abortion. And, who knew the breast
Keeping us barefoot and pregnant
The recent, manufactured controversy over insurance coverage for birth control coincided with receipt of my copy of a small book with facts about my Irish ancestors on
Komen Foundation defunds Planned Parenthood
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the famous breast cancer charity, recently announced privately to Planned Parenthood that it will stop funding the organization
Why are we abstaining from sex education?
In early August, Mayor Bloomberg unleashed a new initiative that would make sex education in New York City schools mandatory. That means for middle
Social issues trump social media
It hasn’t been a banner century for progressives. Not too long I re-read a book that my grandmother, Lucille Milner, wrote in 1954, The Education