NBC-Affiliated television station reports that the Satanic Temple has prevailed in their showdown before the Missouri Supreme Court over the state’s abortion restrictions. Missouri’s KSDK News Channel 5 reported that “On Wednesday, Missouri’s Solicitor General D. John Sauer declared ultrasounds are not required to obtain an abortion in Missouri, according to a press release […]
George Takei scored a major victory for LGBT rights in Indiana after he went to war with then Gov. Mike Pence. March 2015 then Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) signed into law the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA) in a private ceremony. ThinkProgress reported at the time that “Proponents of this bill had openly admitted […]
With this incredible quote, self-proclaimed Christian and Democratic Senator Cory Booker sums up religious bigotry and hypocrisy in a way that’s hard for anyone to deny. Every day we see and hear lawmakers and people of “faith” using the word of God to hurt others. As the ACLU reports, this “discrimination takes many forms, including: […]
Sarah Silverman reminds us that #EverySpermIsSacred Republican legislators all over the country are obsessed with legislating women’s innards – specifically, reproductive innards. Whether it’s forcing doctors to perform unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound probes (government mandated rape) before legal abortions, the Republican war on contraception, or forcing women to carry a dead fetus to term, the GOP […]
41,000 physicians will join the fight to keep their patients safe from religious mandates. The 41,000 member California Medical Association (CMA) filed a motion Wednesday to join the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit targeting the state’s largest Catholic hospital chain, Dignity Health – which also happens to be the fifth largest health-care system in the […]