//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js When Republican Rep. Trent Franks tweeted a false claim, Dr. Daniel Grossman decided to school him on a little something the rest of us call “facts.” Doctors are using social media to take Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), junk-science peddler and misogynistic provocateur, to task over his recent proposed anti-choice bill, H.R.36, titled, The Pain Capable […]
Despite ample amounts of research and statistics proving that higher rates of teen pregnancies occur when there’s a lack of comprehensive sex education, Texas and other states still push abstinence-only education while also making contraception less accessible. The University of Florida-Pensacola conducted a study examining the number of nationwide births by females ages 15 to 19 […]
“CA Attorney General filing criminal charges sends a clear message — you can’t target women & health care providers without consequences.” ~ Planned Parenthood Action Fund California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritt have been charged with 15 felony counts of invasion of privacy. Prosecutors filed […]
A controversial anti-abortion bill passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives on Tuesday, but only after heated debate on the House floor. Oklahoma House State Rep. George Faught authored House Bill-1549 – which punishes doctors who perform abortions in cases of genetic abnormalities. Doctors could face fines up to $100,000. Ok. State Rep. Cory Williams (D) asked Faught if he believed rape is the “will of […]
This is what Resistance Looks Like: Cory Booker educates Republicans as he takes the microphone to defend Planned Parenthood. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan announced last week that upcoming legislation to repeal Obamacare would cut off taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood despite the fact that abortion is a legal, constitutionally-protected and necessary component of women’s healthcare […]