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Can You Change a Woman’s Mind in the Walk Up to an Abortion Clinic?

Can You Change a Woman’s Mind in the Walk Up to an Abortion Clinic? | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
The Supreme Court has given pro-life advocates free rein to spread their message, even if it distresses patients. But getting people to listen is more complicated.
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All about the bullying...

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interviewed by Irin Carmon about gender equality, reproductive rights, & more.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the energy and staying power her job entails and what she considers unfinished business in the fight for gender equality.

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Ginsburg discusses the economic impact of abortion restrictions: “We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.”


Complete interview & transcript here.

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We get it: “Por-Lifers Love Fetuses But what...

We get it: “Por-Lifers Love Fetuses But what... | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
We get it: “Por-Lifers Love Fetuses
But what about the people, the women, who are already here?
Vote Pro-Choice
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49 Years After Griswold: A Splintering Legacy

49 Years After Griswold: A Splintering Legacy | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
The Supreme Court's historic Griswold v. Connecticut decision may have legalized contraception use between married couples, but with the Hobby Lobby case, the Roberts Court is poised to take us one giant step backward.
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Michigan GOP Members Make Fun of Women by Pretending to Read Fashion Magazines

Michigan GOP Members Make Fun of Women by Pretending to Read Fashion Magazines | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
Last week, three Michigan Republicans joked in a photo that they "understand" women because they read fashion magazines. But the gag is proof of how deeply they hold women in contempt.
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Conscious prejudice and bias
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Want To Win The War On Poverty? Rebuild The Labor Movement

Want To Win The War On Poverty?  Rebuild The Labor Movement | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
When conservative Ohio Governor and former Lehman Brothers executive John Kasich feels compelled to remind his fellow conservatives that upon entering Heaven, “Saint Peter is probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor,” you know poverty has reached center stage.

From the homilies of Pope Francis, to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's (pictured) inauguration speech, poverty and its close cousin inequality are playing starring roles in the current political discourse. The President’s 2015 budget proposal, released earlier this month, calls for a significant increase in federal spending on anti-poverty programs, and while these proposals are likely DOA in the Republican-controlled House, Democrats across the land have promised to campaign on the issue leading up to the 2014 midterm races. This year, then, appears little different from much of 2013: the spotlight on poverty shows no sign of dimming.

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Not necessarily all feminist; but unions have their place in feminism and other battles of equality -- and unions are the way to cease this war on the masses.

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The War On Women

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“If a woman has (the right to abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases)...
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A huge link round-up of evidence.

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A huge link round-up of evidence.

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For Too Many, Accessing Abortion Is Already an 'Undue Burden'

For Too Many, Accessing Abortion Is Already an 'Undue Burden' | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
The latest wave of clinic closures in Texas illustrates how absurd judging abortion restrictions under the "undue burden" test has become.
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Kentucky Lawmaker Attempts to Define Abortion as Domestic Violence

Kentucky Lawmaker Attempts to Define Abortion as Domestic Violence | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
According to Kentucky Rep. Joe Fischer, who has attached a 20-week abortion ban to a domestic violence bill, "The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children.”
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Politicians: Erect & Standing Up, But Not For Women

Politicians: Erect & Standing Up, But Not For Women | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
Maybe you don't want to call it a "war on women". Maybe you find the word "war" to be over-the-top, despite the facts regarding bombings, shootings, rape, and other violent attacks against women, i...
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How the Koch Bros. Secretly Fund Anti-Choice Efforts

How the Koch Bros. Secretly Fund Anti-Choice Efforts | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
Using a "secret bank," the Koch Bros. gave $8.2 million to a virulently anti-LGBT committee that lobbied for strict abortion laws in Texas and pushes regulations designed to force clinics to close t

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Not really a secret if you watch Rachel Maddow (or read her blog).

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Rep. Moore Tells Anti-Choice GOP Where to Shove Black Genocide Lie

Read more at: http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/when_they_were_supposed_to.html

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whoa! good to hear both sides of the argument 

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Climate Change-Driven Prostitution Claim In House Resolution Makes For Misleading Headlines

Climate Change-Driven Prostitution Claim In House Resolution Makes For Misleading Headlines | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

Lee and her 11 Democratic cosponsors are asking Congress to acknowledge that climate change affects women, especially poor women, more than it affects men, and to develop "gender-sensitive frameworks" as they work to address it.

 

"It's unfortunate that this resolution has been misrepresented as to its goals," Lee wrote in a statement. "Tragically, as women across the world are pushed to the margins, they become more vulnerable. And we've seen time after time, that women on the edge are forced to make heartbreaking choices, this among them."

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This is Personal.

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Photo: Members of the This Is Personal community deliver your petition to Representative Lois Capps (D-CA)

 

 

We asked you to speak up, and tell Congress to stay out of women's health decisions -- and you, along with 5,442 other members of the This Is Personal community, responded loud and clear. You guys rock!

 

Thanks to you, we told Congress that our decisions about birth control, pregnancy, and abortion are not up for grabs, and we won't stay silent while some lawmakers try to strip women of their right to make their own health decisions.

 

Recently, some members of the This Is Personal community paid a visit to Congress to deliver the petitions in person.

Still fired up?

 

Take Action: Tell your state legislator that 40 years after Roe v. Wade, it's still your decision.

 

Thank you for taking a stand with us, as always.

And thanks for keeping it personal.

 

Thao Nguyen
Campaign Director
This Is Personal


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What It Really Takes To Get An Abortion

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Planned Parenthood’s president thinks abortion is headed back to the Supreme Court

Planned Parenthood’s president thinks abortion is headed back to the Supreme Court | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

"It is chilling to think that for women in America, your rights now depend on your zipcode," says Cecile Richards of a wave of new abortion bans. (Is a woman’s right to choose heading back to the Supreme Court?)

 

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Cecile Richards: I’d say that North Dakota is now the most unsafe state in the nation. Their governor has become the poster child for the most anti-woman [legislation] in the country. He has effectively banned access to safe and legal abortion. The bill is not only outrageous but unconstitutional. As a health-care provider, we know the impact it has on women to no longer have access to legal abortion. Lives are being put in jeopardy.

 

[I live in this state. It's so disgusting.]

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Infuriated & Embarrassed To Be From This State (Abortion Laws In North Dakota)

Infuriated & Embarrassed To Be From This State (Abortion Laws In North Dakota) | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it
After calling Gov. Dalrymple, I called my state legislators too. And then I sent this letter via email to all as well in response to all the insanity occurring in...
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Hot On The Historical Ephemera Trail... In The National Enquirer?

Hot On The Historical Ephemera Trail... In The National Enquirer? | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

The women born between 1905 and 1909 were the same young girls who grew up during the years of the women’s suffrage movement in the US. They would have seen the struggle, heard the talk, and knew they could have greater freedom of choice in living their lives. They too would see, if not quite be, part of the flapper movement. Activism and parenting being almost completely at odds with one another, some may have opted not to have children — and at this time, birth control, thanks to Margaret Sanger, was becoming a realistic option.

 

And, just as these young women were perhaps thinking of starting a family…

 

Along comes The Great Depression — the one of that started about 1929, not the one some say we are approaching now — and the birthrate fell about one-tenth globally from the rate during the “prosperous” 1920′s. In America, the birth rate dropped below the replacement level for the first time in history.

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The history of the Playground Association of America.

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Download These Slides and Take Your Picture with...

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Download These Slides and Take Your Picture with Them To Help Raise Awareness
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Penile Code Avenger: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Let's Talk About Domestic Violence

Penile Code Avenger: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Let's Talk About Domestic Violence | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

For today, we don't even have the right to enjoy our homes, our private spaces, without fearing violence, rape, or worse. And when we dare to point that out, we are not merely dismissed, we are punished.

So many of us are still having to say, "That's life."

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The history of domestic violence repeating itself.

 

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Confronting Abortion Stigma

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Late last month, a New Mexico state representative introduced a bill that would further punish women who are raped, as if sexual violence isn’t enough of a violation. The original bill was based on the notion that having an abortion following a rape equated “tampering with evidence” and would have made abortion in case of rape a felony offense. The absurdity of the bill eventually led to it being withdrawn, but that the idea of forcing raped women into pregnancy and motherhood was proposed at all—and in a state where one in four women reports having been raped—is odious to say the least.

 

While this bill was particularly offensive, every day of every week several state legislatures are hard at work creating more and more restrictions to punish both women in need of abortion and the medical professionals providing safe abortion care.

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Someone you know has been or is going to be stigmatized like this until we change the status quo.

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Severely Conservative Appeals Court Blocks Access To Birth Control - ThinkProgress

Severely Conservative Appeals Court Blocks Access To Birth Control - ThinkProgress | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

ThinkProgressSeverely Conservative Appeals Court Blocks Access To Birth ControlThinkProgressIn a brief, one sentence order yesterday, the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit temporarily stayed Judge Jackson's decision.


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Pennsylvania Bill Would Reduce Welfare Benefits For Women Who Cannot Prove They Were Raped

Pennsylvania Bill Would Reduce Welfare Benefits For Women Who Cannot Prove They Were Raped | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

By Tara Culp-Ressler, Think Progress

 

A Pennsylvania House bill seeks to limit the amount of TANF assistance that low-income women receive based on the amount of children they give birth to while covered under the program.

 

Despite the fact that low-income women who give birth to children would logically need increased assistance to care for their larger family, Pennsylvania lawmakers - State Reps. RoseMarie Swanger (R), Tom Caltagirone (D), Mark Gillen (R), Keith Gillespie (R), Adam Harris (R), and Mike Tobash (R) - don't want their state's welfare program to provide additional benefits for that newborn. If a woman gives birth to a child who was conceived from rape, she may seek an exception to this rule so that her welfare benefits aren't slashed, but only if she can provide proof that she reported her sexual assault and her abuser's identity to the  police.


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Just Don’t Call It Slut-Shaming: A Feminist Guide to Silencing Sex Workers

Just Don’t Call It Slut-Shaming: A Feminist Guide to Silencing Sex Workers | Dare To Be A Feminist | Scoop.it

The feminist movement really is in a pickle these days. It used to be a given that things like prostitution, pornography and stripping were bad, but nowadays there’s some resistance to these time-honoured notions. Women are increasingly coming out as sex workers and demanding rights. As feminists seek to shut down strip bars and criminalise clients, those women are complaining not just that they’ll lose their livelihood, but that they’ll be at increased risk of abuse and violence if their industries go underground! You can’t let such trivial concerns get in the way of your crusade, so below are some handy tips for discrediting these pesky meddlers.

Remember: being an actual sex worker doesn’t entitle her to speak about sex work!...


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Scarlet Letters

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The scarlet letters of this authentic suffrage poster read, “A Woman Living Here Has Registered to Vote Thereby Assuming Responsibility Of Citizenship.” Because that’s what voting is, a responsibility of...
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