- The HR3 Ten: Meet Mike McIntyre, the "Responsible Father"
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Sarah Jaffe]
- The Center takes the FDA Back to Court | Center for Reproductive Rights
- [Background info and action you can take to increase emergency contraceptive availability. -L]
- CRR Statement on This Week’s House Hearings on Anti-Choice Bills | Center for Reproductive Rights
- 02.07.11 – (PRESS RELEASE) …
“…both bills essentially issue a death warrant for American women. They would allow hospitals to refuse women life-saving treatment–all in the name of preventing a woman from obtaining a legal and safe abortion.
“These latest anti-choice efforts are below-the-belt politics at its worst. Abortion is an essential part of reproductive healthcare and one of the most common medical procedures sought by women. The House of Representatives has no business dictating women’s medical care. The costs are too high to women’s health and lives.”
[And here, have a sentence from a diff press release (same organization). -L]
02.16.11 – (PRESS RELEASE) "It's getting to the point that almost every week you can count on the anti-choice movement to propose an outrageous piece of legislation that completely disregards women's rights and defies common sense…"
- Huffington Post: New Bill Would Allow Religious Hospitals to Deny Life-Saving Emergency Care | Center for Reproductive Rights
- Would you ask someone else to die for your religious beliefs? …
That religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact. A 2008 article in the American Journal of Public Health examined numerous instances in which Catholic hospitals put patients' lives at risk, as reported by the doctors who were forced to deny them care.
In one example, a woman 14 weeks pregnant who suffered ruptured membranes and was in the middle of a miscarriage was forced by the Catholic hospital to travel 90 miles to another hospital to complete the miscarriage.
…Because the proposed legislation would override legal obligations under EMTALA, the new law would actually allow hospitals to deny care altogether–literally to do nothing in an emergency, including fail to stabilize and transfer [a patient into the care of a facility that officially gives a shit whether she lives or dies].
- Who Benefits from Enterprise Zones? Nobody Knows – The Bay Citizen
- Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to eliminate California's enterprise zones has generated a heated debate between business and labor groups…
But neither side knows exactly who is benefitting from the tax breaks companies operating in the state's 42 zones take every year.
That's because in California, money doled out in the form of corporate tax breaks is exempt from public records laws.
- Dems missing from Wis. Capitol ahead of union vote – Yahoo! News
- MADISON, Wis. – Police officers were dispatched Thursday to find Wisconsin state lawmakers who had apparently boycotted a vote on a sweeping bill that would strip most government workers of their collective bargaining rights.
The lawmakers, all Democrats in the state Senate, did not show up when they were ordered to attend a midday vote on the legislation.
The proposal has been the focus of intense protests at the Statehouse for three days. As Republicans tried to begin Senate business Thursday, observers in the gallery screamed "Freedom! Democracy! Unions!"
Republicans hold a 19-14 majority, but they need at least one Democrat to be present before taking a vote on the bill.
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- Watchdogs: Campaign Finance Agency Is AWOL | TPMMuckraker
- A coalition of watchdog groups are calling for congressional hearings into what they regard as systematic failings of the Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with enforcing campaign finance law.
- EXCLUSIVE: Rape Myths Persist—Reactions to the Assault on Lara Logan – WMC Blog
- [Women's Media Center Blog - Sheela Raja]
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