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A modest roundup.

Jill Filipovic:To anyone who has taken even a cursory look at reproductive rights activism, it's obvious that decreasing the abortion rate isn't nearly as much a concern for the pro-life movement as controlling women is. ... Despite knowing the key to a lower abortion rate, the so-called "pro-life" movement refuses to use it. ( Read more... )

ETA: Bumping this post up above the SJW shit because I'm adding a photo of Moo (on right) and friend that
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It's already been widely reported that a GOP county chair in Ohio said last week, re his party's plans to curtail voting in Cincinnati proper (as opposed to its Republican-leaning suburbs) after 5 p.m. and on weekends: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban - read African-American - voter- ( Read more... )

Julian Assange is a scumbag, and an awful lot of male "progressives" are perfectly happy to throw women's rights and welfare under the bus when their heroes are called out on their shit. (One particularly disgusting example.)

Cath Elliott:I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s noticed there’s a trend going on here, a frustrating and entirely ( Read more... )

A quote from one guest at a Mitt Romney fundraiser in the Hamptons:I don't think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. We’ve got the message. But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies - everybody who’s got the right to vote - they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower ( Read more... )

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His announcement the other day that he's "personally" in favor of marriage equality gave a big warm fuzzy to the Whole Foods/NPR type of liberal who doesn't want to think beyond the "D" after a politician's name. Especially the ones who are straight and cisgendered ( Read more... )

ETA: Fucking hell. Amendment 1 also stripped the right of unmarried couples living together to protection under domestic violence laws.

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Pam Spaulding has details - and next steps, including a request for people to send a message of support to couples participating in the "We Do" campaign.

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