Hey, remember the campaign to replace either Hamilton or Jackson on American money with women? Well, Hamilton is going to stay where he is--the ten-dollar founding father--thanks in large part to lobbying by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton fans. Andrew Jackson, on the other hand, is on his way out. AND LOOK WHO IS TAKING HIS PLACE.

Treasury ( Read more... )

You guys have probably seen most of this on Tumblr already, but I have to record some of the notable things that happened last night besides Obama winning ( Read more... )

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Republican Wisconsin Lawmaker Don Pridemore Thinks Women Are Better Off Beaten Than Divorced

And no, that's not an exaggeration or a logical inference. He SAID that openly.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said. "If they can re-find those ( Read more... )

You know that it's bad when:

Georgia’s state representative, Terry England, wants to force women to retain dead fetuses in their bodies until it's time to deliver.

New Hampshire's and Kansas's Houses of Representatives have each passed bills stating that doctors MUST tell women seeking abortion that having an abortion increases their risk of ( Read more... )

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

Guess what? The Republicans want to make rape, incest and survival subjects for IRS audits! Not only that, they want to narrow the definition of what rape IS.

And it looks like they might succeed on both counts.

Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans' "No ( Read more... )

First, a piece of news. The governor of Utah sent the feticide bill back to the legislature. On Thursday, Carl Wimmer, the chief sponsor of the bill, withdrew it.

However, we're not out of the woods yet. The bill--H.B. 462, now (offered here with amendments)--was revised very quickly. Yes, the "reckless" clause was taken out of the new version of ( Read more... )

A number of people on my friends-list have been posting, for the past few days about a bill passed by the Utah legislature and currently awaiting signature by the governor that effectively criminalizes miscarriage, thanks to some non-defined terms.

The bill was crafted after a seventeen-year-old girl in Utah paid a twenty-one-year-old man $150.00 ( Read more... )