States Issues

Colorado Legislators Cover Their Own Asses – Leave Ours Hanging in the Wind

Colorado Legislators Cover Their Own Asses – Leave Ours Hanging in the Wind

I had an occasion recently to discuss last year’s Colorado Supreme Court Decision ruling that the University of Colorado could not ban firearms from its campuses.  The court came to this conclusion due to the specific language of a state statute barring any entity from passing policy or laws restricting a citizen’s right to carry […]

Martha Plimpton On The Arkansas Abortion Ban (VIDEO)

Martha Plimpton On The Arkansas Abortion Ban (VIDEO)

Martha Plimpton, co-founder of the women’s rights organization A Is For, and Irin Carmon, staff writer for Salon.com, appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act. “The Arkansas state legislature wants the state to have the most restrictive abortion ban in the country…” O’Donnell reports. The […]

Indiana GOP Seeks To Mandate Two Invasive Vaginal Probes: Rachel Maddow Weighs In (VIDEO)

Indiana GOP Seeks To Mandate Two Invasive Vaginal Probes: Rachel Maddow Weighs In (VIDEO)

One vaginal probe isn’t humiliating enough for women who choose to terminate their pregnancy in Indiana. Now Indiana Republican legislators want TWO! The egregious Senate Bill 371 passed out of the Senate Committee with an approval of 7 to 5 sending it to a full vote in the State Senate. Sen. Travis Holdman (R) introduced […]

Personhood Initiative Passes In North Dakota Senate

Personhood Initiative Passes In North Dakota Senate

Huffington Post reports the State Senate in North Dakota passed a Personhood Constitutional Amendment initiative on Thursday that amends the state’s constitution and gives legal rights to human embryos. Republican State Senator Margaret Sitte told Huffington Post, “We are intending that it be a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, since Scalia said that the […]

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