Planned Parenthood Officially Endorses Hillary Clinton for President

Planned Parenthood has announced that it will endorse Hillary Clinton for president. According to the New York Times, this marks the first time the health care organization has publicly backed a candidate in a presidential primary.
Useless, Good-For-Nothing Senate Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood and Repeal ObamacareÂ
The Senate, a group of itinerant time-wasters who assuredly relish the smell of their own farts, has voted along party lines to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare. President Obama will veto the measure, and Senate Republicans lack the supermajority they need to overturn the veto. Thus making this—like most…
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Obamacare For the Fourth Damn Time
A collection of Christian institutions who basically can’t stand the idea of their employees using birth control will be allowed to make that argument before the Supreme Court. SCOTUS has agreed to hear seven related cases from religious employers and non-profits who don’t want to cover birth control in their health…
The Supreme Court Is Trying to Kill Us
The Supreme Court begins its fall term today, and it’s already shaping up to be a doozy. Its docket includes public employee unions, affirmative action, the death penalty, and—oh, hell, why not?— probably abortion and birth control, too. While all of these are politically contentious issues with the potential to shape…
The Little Sisters of the Poor have lost their battle against the Affordable Care Act’s birth control coverage requirement. The Sisters, a religious nonprofit, claimed they were forced to be “complicit” in delivering birth control to their employees by having to opt out of it. In their order, the 10th U.S. Circuit…
Roman Catholic Nuns Still Fighting Obamacare Birth Control Compromise
Another day, another endless lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate. Court after court has ruled that the Obama administration has found an acceptable workaround for nonprofit religious organizations who don’t want to provide birth control coverage to their employees. Nonetheless, yet…
Obamacare Has Saved Women Over $1.4 Billion in Birth Control Costs
A new study has found that the Affordable Care Act created an immediate drop in out-of-pocket birth control costs for women. The authors saw costs decrease for almost all reversible birth control methods, an average of around $250 per person per year. And that’s even with some health insurance companies still…
Surprise! The Supreme Court Just Saved the Affordable Care Act
The Supreme Court has smacked down a major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, one that could have caused millions of Americans to lose health insurance coverage. In a 6-3 decision, they ruled against the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, who argued that the federal government couldn’t provide subsidies for health…
GOP Legislation Expands Birth Control Access (But Not Really)Â
On Thursday, Republican Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) announced that they would sponsor legislation that would essentially let common forms of birth control (i.e. the pill) to be sold over the counter. According to the Huffington Post, The Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective…
Health Insurance Companies Are Illegally Charging for Birth Control
One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act is that birth control methods — be it pill, patch, shot, ring — are supposed to be covered by insurance companies without a co-pay or other charges. But two studies from the National Women’s Law Center have found that many insurance companies are still charging for…
Lawyer Fighting Obamacare: 'Women and Minorities' Wrote a Bad Law
Today, Attorney Michael Carvin will argue before the Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act—or "Obamacare" if you're so inclined—is unconstitutional on the grounds that complying with it causes his clients undue hardship. If he wins, millions will lose their insurance and President Obama's most sizable domestic…
How To Actually Get Your Free Birth ControlÂ
Remember when Barack Obama announced that the Affordable Care Act would include a birth control mandate that gives women access to birth control for the lovely cost of free? That was great. Those guidelines kicked in on August 1 of 2012, but now, more than two years later, some women are still paying for their…
The Plaintiffs Behind the Obamacare Lawsuit Are Your Embarrassing Aunt
Imagine if a right-wing think-tank funded by the Koch bothers approached your weirdo aunt—the one who constantly updates her Facebook with funny pictures about our Kenyan Socialist President, the Democraps, and the insistence that heaven really is for real—and asked her to put her name on a convoluted,…
Republican Alternative to Obamacare Strips Away Maternity CareÂ
Since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, Republicans have been squawking about their intentions to repeal the legislation that's extended healthcare benefits to 15 million Americans who were previously uninsured.
The U.S. Gets a 'C' For Reproductive Rights, Which Seems Generous
For the third year, the Population Institute, a D.C.-based think tank that promotes access to family planning, has released a report card on the state of reproductive rights in the United States. Depending on where you live, things are bad to mediocre, with the country as a whole getting a 'C' grade and 15 states…
Obama Takes Control of The Colbert Report, Delivers 'The Word'
With just two weeks left on the clock for the Colbert Report, the show is cramming in a few more splashy segments. Like for instance last night's visitor: U.S. president Barack Obama, who dropped by for an interview and temporary commandeered Colbert's desk. Welcome to the "fuck it" stage of the Obama presidency!
