Shock of Shocks: Banning Abortion Would Cost Taxpayers a Shitload
That an abortion ban would end up costing taxpayers millions seems like common sense, but now there are numbers to back it up. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the House of Representatives' proposed 20-week ban on abortion could increase Medicaid spending by half a billion dollars over the…
Columnist Is 'Ashamed' of Senator Uncle's Hideous Anti-Abortion Bill
Food editor Sarah Murrell has kicked off an entirely well-deserved feud with her uncle, Indiana State Senator Travis Holdman, after he recently filed a bill that would make it a felony offense to abort a fetus due to gender or fetal abnormalities. In an editorial, Murell tells her uncle she's horrified by the bill and…
SCOTUS Determines That NY Crisis Pregnancy Centers Can't Lie to Women
Following legal pressure from pro-life clinics such as the Evergreen Association, Inc. and the Life Center of New York, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal that challenges a 2011 ruling that requires New York crisis pregnancy centers to inform women as to whether or not they staff licensed…
Guantanamo Detainee Uses Hobby Lobby Ruling to Refuse Female Guards
In yet another repurposing of June's Hobby Lobby ruling, Guantanamo detainee Walid Bin Attash is using the Supreme Court's decision to refuse female escorts within the prison. Bin Attash's decision to stay within his cell rather than be led by women guards to his counsel meetings could have unforeseen effects on his…
Pro-Life Group's New Strategy To Elect Anti-Choice Politicians: Lying
The New Yorker has a very kind, very polite profile this week about the Susan B. Anthony List, the lobbying group whose sole purpose is to get anti-abortion politicians into office. The piece centers around Marjorie Dannenfelser, the SBA List's president, who the New Yorker's Kelefa Sanneh says is trying to avoid the…
Supreme Court Ruling Will Allow Abortion Clinics to Operate in Texas
Just a few weeks after the Fifth US Circuit Court said Texas can begin imposing restrictions on abortion clinics throughout the state (forcing many of them to close), the Supreme Court ruled today that they can stay open, for now at least.
Ballot Measures in These Three States Aim To Criminalize Abortion
Another election, another attempt to strip women of their autonomy over their own body in favor of an unborn fetus that may have been conceived through rape or incest and may actually be harmful to the woman's health. Every election, anti-abortion restrictions find their way onto the ballot in some state—this year,…
Alabama Abortion Law Assigns Lawyers to the Fetuses of Pregnant Teens
Alabama, eager to be the national leader in something besides painkiller prescriptions, had a parental consent law go into effect this summer that goes further than any other state in dehumanizing and humiliating abortion-seeking teens who don't want to get their parents involved. A girl who doesn't want to or cannot…
'Pro-Life' States Do a Shitty Job Providing Care to Women and Kids
New research indicates that the states with the biggest anti-choice boner also happen to be the ones with the worst record of caring for the fully formed human beings forced to live with the consequences of their leaders' ideology. What's more pro-life than ignoring a high maternal mortality rate? Besides everything?
Oh God, Jessa Duggar Just Compared the Holocaust to Abortion
Last week, Duggar No. 5 (Jessa) and her husband visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Most normal people would simple take the time to reflect on the tragedy itself, but Jessa saw the right through to meat of the genocide of approximately six million Jews: abortion.
Study: Being Denied Abortions Tethers Women to Abusive Men
There are countless reasons why limiting women's access to safe and legal abortions is anything but "pro-life." Doing so forces women to resort to desperate, illegal and dangerous methods of terminating unwanted pregnancies, and it deprives us of our own bodily autonomy. And now we have another horrifying consequence…
Notorious RBG Used to Jazzercise But Now Does an Air Force Workout
Supreme Court Justice and perfect human being Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 81 years old and, to reiterate, not planning on retiring any time soon. That's partly because she does a military workout to keep herself in shape, and partly because she can't think of another person who could do her job as well as she does it. Lean…

