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Conversations about overpopulation can quickly become controversial because they beg the question: Who exactly is the cause of the problem and what, if anything, should be done about it? Many population experts worry discussions around overpopulation...
by populationmediacenter
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM PDT
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This sort of slipped under the media radar, but Republican Governor Youngkin of Virginia gutted a law sent to him to protect contraception in the state. Instead of legal protections for contraception, Youngkin “amended” the law to make it essentially a...
by Merlin196360
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 03:16 PM PDT
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The Arizona Supreme Court just upheld an anti-abortion law from 1864 —� a time when women couldn’t vote, human beings were still enslaved, and ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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When former Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is out campaigning for Florida's Senate seat, she meets voters of all partisan persuasions who want to protect abortion access in the state. "It hasn't been just Democrats. This is not a partisan issue...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 01:56 PM PDT
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I was thinking the Extreme Right was trying to take us back to the good old days of 1958 when June Cleaver wore pearls while making dinner from her Betty Crocker cookbook. The Extreme Right would overturn Obergefell (gay marriage) Roe (abortion)...
by SCRW56
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 08:36 PM PDT
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It may�surprise many people that there is a a concerted effort going on quite literally under their�noses—on the screens of their smartphones, tablets, and laptops—to�sow distrust, uncertainty, ...
by Dartagnan
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 07:28 AM PDT
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I’m currently ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
55 comments
on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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You may dimly recall a moment last year when House Republicans tried halfheartedly to “pivot” on the issue of abortion. Reacting to an electoral backlash in the 2022 elections, they desperately tried to reassure their constituents that even though...
by Dartagnan
132 comments
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 02:18 PM PST
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Earlier this week on one of the MSNBC shows there was a discussion about Comstock Laws making a comeback via the elimination through the overturning of Griswold etc. In the discussion the Planned ...
by TexDem
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are commemorating the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, kicking off what will be a year-long campaign to put abortion and reproductive health rights at the forefront in 2024. That includes the White...
by Joan McCarter
75 comments
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 09:41 AM PST
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More than 150,000 registered Republicans in Florida have signed on to an effort to get a pro-abortion-rights measure on the state ballot in 2024, according to NBC News. Specifically, the measure would undercut the Republican-imposed six-week abortion...
by Kerry Eleveld
112 comments
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 12:39 PM PST
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“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry” ― H.L. Mencken Kellyanne Conway tries to thread the choice/contraception needle Kellyanne...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 02:15 PM PST
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Nothing says desperation like GOP strategists counseling Republicans to support contraception access Republican strategists have identified a five-alarm fire in their house and are breaking out the garden hose to deal with it.
On top of the fact that Republicans are pushing abortion bans across ...
by Kerry Eleveld
160 comments
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 11:53 AM PST
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The roadrunner is back, though I’ll have to make this post quick. It’s not the coyote today, but rather that old guy in the Chrysler LeBaron with the Goldwater ‘64 bumper sticker still affixed to it. He is inexplicably taking shots at me from a wide...
by Roadrunner65
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 11:24 AM PST
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The archaic Comstock Act has been in force since 1873, when Congress passed it. The act was heavily used from its enactment until the United States v. One Package ruling in 1936 by the 2nd Circuit Court. After that, the act’s scope was weakened and...
by JGibson
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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from CNN Oct 6 The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” ...the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Years ago, a slight acquaintance of mine was caught committing a heinous act of revenge porn. The law hadn’t caught up with technology at that point, and he got away with no criminal charges. The most bizarre part, for me, was another acquaintance — a...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
54 comments
on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Abortion lies are prolific and spread ubiquitously by the anti-abortion advocates. So much so, that media outlets repeat this information without doing fact checks, which continues to spread abortion lies. Yes, I’m talking to you, Morning Joe, Fox...
by JDWolverton
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 01:23 PM PDT
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An effort to guarantee access to abortion rights in Ohio, in the form of a November ballot measure, is already fueling misleading claims about how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care, and parental consent in the state. The...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 08:09 AM PDT
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Especially since the Dobbs decision, I’ve found Jessica Valenti’s Abortion, Every Day to be essential reading. She’s recently added a new series discussing the right-wing war on contraception ��
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
63 comments
on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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