TagsTagsThe GOP's uterus inspection device Republicans in Virginia's House of Delegates really have their hearts set on new legislation that will force all women seeking abortions to first undergo penetration by a transvaginal ultrasound transducer. They want this harlot-shaming tool so much that today they voted down an amendment that would have ...
Republican Party, Virginia, Sonogram, Women's Rights, Ultrasound, Harlot Shaming, Misogyny, Bad Craziness
Video Our Fox News right wing jaw-dropper of the day comes from Fox contributor Liz Trotta, in a segment about the Pentagon's new rules for women in the military: Fox's Liz Trotta on Sexual Assault in Military: 'What Did They Expect? These People Are in Close Contact.' Fox News contributor Liz ...
Unless I passed out under an enchanted tree and have been sleeping for decades without knowing, this is the year 2012, right? AD? So why are we still fighting over contraception? The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— ...
Religious Right, catholic church, Contraceptives, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Atavism, Election 2012
Republican anti-choice activist Karen Handel is resigning from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, with an angry statement defending her work against Planned Parenthood: Karen Handel Resigns From Komen for the Cure. I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement ...
Susan G. Komen, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Bad Craziness, Misogyny
Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Abortion, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Health Care
Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming is the latest politician to fall for an Onion story and believe it to be genuine news: Congressman Falls for the Onion's Planned Parenthood 'Abortionplex' Story. Rep. Fleming posted on Facebook an Onion story from last year on an "$8 billion Abortionplex" being built by Planned ...
Planned Parenthood, John Fleming, Louisiana, Republican Party, Women's Rights, Abortion, Onion
Apparently, the people in charge of merchandising at the Susan G. Komen Foundation had a little talk with their anti-abortion executives, and today the Komen Foundation is reinstating their Planned Parenthood funding, and apologizing to Planned Parenthood and the American public. Planned Parenthood has released the following statement in response: “The ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right, Breast Cancer, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Big LGF kudos to Democratic Virginia State Senator Janet Howell, who attached a rectal exam amendment to the misogynistic Republican "ultrasound" bill in that state. To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached ...
A terrible precedent: apparently caving in to the right wing crusade against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention. It's a concrete example of how the religious right's reactionary anti-choice agenda is hurting women ...
Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Right Wing, Health Care
If anyone ever asks again why I left ... no, ran away from the right, here's one of the main reasons: the utter heartlessness of a party so morally bankrupt that it would force women to bear the babies of rapists and incestuous family members. Gingrich: I 'Wouldn't Make Exceptions' ...
newt gingrich, Anti-Choice, Abortion, Heartless Bastard, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights
This election will go down in history as the time when the religious right completely stopped trying to hide anything about their atavistic agenda, and just let everything pour out in a flood of bigotry and misogyny. Rick Santorum, as one of the most fanatical and deranged representatives of this cult, ...
Rick Santorum, Bigotry, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Contraceptives, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
It's horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker's child. There's nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry (who previously supported rape/incest exceptions) ...
Abortion, Anti-Choice, Religious Right, Rick Perry, Women's Rights, Misogyny
The radical anti-choice movement called "Personhood" is holding a "National Presidential Pro-Life Forum" tonight in Iowa, sponsored by a collection of the farthest right religious groups in America. Attending this gathering of fanatics: Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry. It's being broadcast on the radio show of Iowa ...
Republican Party, Religious Right, Personhood, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Women's Rights, Evolution
The religious right's misogynistic "Personhood" bill may have been defeated by voters in Mississippi (one of the most conservative states in the nation), but that hasn't stopped GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry from co-signing a pledge to support the ultimate anti-choice ideology. In a ...
Republican Party, Personhood, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Abortion
Here's Mitt Romney in 1994, speaking passionately against imposing one's religious beliefs on other people, and in favor of abortion rights, telling a story about a close family friend who "passed away from an illegal abortion." According to Romney, since that tragic incident he's been a steadfast supporter of the ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Abortion, Women's Rights, Extremism, Religious Right
The Southern Baptist Convention has stopped making a special pink Bible they sold to help support breast cancer screenings, and is recalling all the remaining copies, because they're contaminated by proximity to the demonic Planned Parenthood. Lifeway Christian Resources no longer markets the pink-bound version of The Holman Christian Standard ...
Pink Bibles, Southern Baptist Convention, Fundamentalism, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Women's Rights
The Obama administration is coming in for criticism from the liberal side of the aisle today, after the Department of Health and Human Services rejected an FDA request to make the Plan B emergency contraceptive available over the counter to women of all ages. The official reason given by the HHS's ...
President Obama, Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, Contraceptives, Religious Right, Women's Rights
Fantastic news: the insanely misogynistic "personhood" bill has been defeated in Mississippi. But they're not giving up. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a ...
Abortion, Personhood, Religious Right, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Mississippi
Here's a very interesting and enlightening piece about one of the right wing's most demonized figures: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood: Was Planned Parenthood's founder racist? Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger is back in the news this week thanks to GOP presidential candidate and abortion rights opponent Herman Cain, ...
Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, Right Wing, Demonization, Abortion, Women's Rights
Interesting development in the right wing war on women's rights: there are actually some religious groups beginning to get uncomfortable with the implications of the crazy far right agenda they've been supporting. Notably, the Mississippi Catholic Bishops: Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill. This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote on Initiative ...
Abortion, Mississippi, catholic church, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Personhood
Herman Cain posing with anti-Muslim hate monger Pamela GellerHerman Cain's advisers have him going around to all the far right Christian outlets this weekend, desperately walking back his absurd self-contradictory statements on abortion. After trying to snow the cable news networks into believing he might be sort of "pro-choice," Cain ...
Herman Cain, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Extremism, Republican Party
In Des Moines at a forum organized by the extreme right wing Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Republican candidates are enthusiastically trying to portray themselves as the most misogynistic, repressive assholes in America. Their strategy to "rebuild America" starts with controlling women's uteruses: Abortion Takes Center Stage at Iowa ...
Republican Party, Reactionary, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Abortion, Religious Right, Dark Ages, Bad Craziness
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Women's Rights, Republican Party, Misogyny, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Rachel Maddow
The Republican Party has succeeded in passing a bill in the House of Representatives that allows hospitals to let women die rather than provide abortion-related emergency services. The inhuman heartlessness of the religious right, in your face.
Women's Rights, Republican Party, Misogyny, Abortion, Bad Craziness
The religious right is making a desperate all-out effort to roll back women's reproductive rights, and a bizarre fetus-worshipping circus took place today in Congress as the fundamentalist loons put on an emotional ultrasound show for the right wingers about to vote on the falsely named "Protect Life Act:" A ...
Abortion, Congress, Ultrasound, Fetus Inspection Device, Women's Rights, Inhuman, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness