Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control, and it completely contradicts the argument conservatives use when they say that free birth control will ruin the economy (and/or cause natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes). When teens and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants (IUDs), which prevent unwanted […]
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the 72-year-old Vermont socialist is surging in the Democratic Primary against Hillary Clinton with “free education in one fist, single-payer healthcare in the other.” Bill Curry of Salon wrote that “Hillary Clinton is going to lose: She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders” […]
In an interview with the Boston Herald, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker attacked Hillary Clinton’s advocacy for equal pay legislation by saying she was simply following in President Obama’s footsteps in trying to “pit one group of Americans versus another.” When the program’s host, Adriana Cohen, asked Walker about the (discredited) statistics posted on the conservative […]
Nobel Laureat, and strapping, manly biologist Sir Tim Hunt, decided to show the writers, scientists and engineers at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, just what a masculine specimen he is by berating women. At a luncheon for science journalists hosted by Korean women scientists, he thanked the women journalists “for making lunch,” warned […]
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker indicated he would be willing to sign a Wisconsin bill that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks – even if the pregnancies were a result of rape and/or incest. Walker told reporters, “I mean, I think for most people who are concerned about that, it’s in the initial months where they’re […]