Former Trump campaign senior adviser A.J. Delgado is living in Miami with her mother, and is singlehandedly raising the son she shares with one-time fellow Trump staffer Jason Miller, according to a new profile in the Atlantic from McKay Coppins. She doesn’t have a job in politics and has largely been abandoned by the…
WASHINGTON, DC — On Friday, across from the Supreme Court Building, a middle-aged white man held up a handmade sign: “Make babies great again!”
PHILADELPHIA—On Wednesday morning, a group of around 50 pro-life Democrats gathered in a small conference room in a DoubleTree hotel in Philadelphia’s Center City, in part to honor Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards with the Governor Casey Whole Life Leadership Award for his commitment to protecting the lives of the…
Last year, Sophia Vergara’s former fiancé, Nick Loeb, garnered media attention (including a controversial opinion piece in the New York Times) when he sued the actress over two embryos the couple had fertilized during their relationship. The lawsuit, which was not particularly unusual, but notable because it involved…
Although abortion is legal in the rest of the United Kingdom, its ban in Northern Ireland remains in place. And as a result, a 21-year-old woman was almost sent to prison for self-inducing a miscarriage.
Lands’ End has issued a statement apologizing for featuring an interview with Gloria Steinem in its spring catalog, and appears to have pulled the option on their website to donate to the ERA Coalition’s Fund for Women’s Equality. They are so sorry they dared to say something nice about this influential feminist.…
The conservative corners of this nation are currently coming to a boil over the fact that Lands’ End said something nice about Gloria Steinem in its spring catalog.
A new extension for your Google Chrome browser will change every use of the phrase “pro-life” on a webpage to “anti-choice.” The creators of the tool say that using “pro-life” is harmful, given that it “masks abortion opponents’ true intention of limiting women’s reproductive choices and demonizes abortion rights…
One of the things Carly Fiorina learned as CEO of HP was how to make use of available resources. On Wednesday, that meant capitalizing on the presence of little kids while on a campaign stop at the Greater Des Moines botanical garden. No longer were they preschoolers on a field trip—now, without the permission of…
On Wednesday, every licensed physician in the state of Oklahoma received an email from the Oklahoma Medical Board reminding them about HB 1409, a law requiring all doctors either performing an abortion or referring their patient to abortion services, to obtain “informed consent” at least 72 hours before the abortion…
On Monday night, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah parsed how far-right Republicans are simultaneously pro-life and pro-guns. How can one be so upset about when life begins but so blasé about when it ends by doing little to restrict access to dangerous weapons? It boggles the mind!
If there’s a place that wants your uterus to go fuck itself, it’s Alabama, which is in the process of passing a law banning abortion clinics to operate within 2,000 feet of a public school. Because, you know—reproductive rights and education don’t mix.
On Wednesday, we told you about the anti-abortion groups who are suddenly getting loads of sparkly letters from a group calling themselves "Glitter Bombs for Choice." Today, we received GBFC's manifesto, from someone who we believe may not be using their real name. That's my theory, anyway, because the person told…
One of the racist fraternity brothers in the video out of the University of Oklahoma has been revealed as Parker Rice of Dallas, Texas. He is one of the students who was expelled earlier today by President David Boren.
Two anti-abortion measures were passed by Oklahoma house delegates Wednesday. The first triples the mandatory wait period for a woman seeking an abortion from one day to three days. The second measure bans abortions at the 20-week mark.
On the eve of a vote on a national abortion ban (and the National March for Life, which, regrettably, I had to miss this year, as I've got a thing), Republican leaders in Congress are experiencing a revolt from an unlikely source: Republican women.
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…
America's youngest state legislator is now 18-year-old West Virginian Saira Blair. She's NRA-endorsed, fiscally conservative and, of course, pro-life. Her dad is a state senator.
Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman terminally ill with brain cancer, has been in the news for weeks, first for the heartbreaking video she made about her desire to be able to die with dignity through assisted suicide and, earlier this week, for a follow-up video saying that she may not choose to die on November 1…
Today in plans nobody thought all the way through, we have Created Equal, an anti-abortion group based out of Ohio who really wanted to display graphic images of abortion procedures somewhere near the Alamo.
