In the second episode of our new podcast, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Gadeir Abbas, a staff attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), about the NSA surveillance as it relates to and impacts Muslim communities. This part really stood out and should leave you outraged: The saddest thing I’ve ever heard as a […]
Tag / Reproductive Rights
From 2006 to 2010, doctors contracted by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation performed tubal litigation (surgical sterilization) on 150 pregnant inmates without proper approval, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. State documents reveal that California paid doctors $147,460 from 1997 to 2010 to perform the procedure, meaning at least 100 more women were sterilized […]
Title X Grants, which fund family planning and other preventive health services, are already prohibited from being used to fund abortions by the Hyde Amendment. Yet, in the face of reality, the GOP and right-wing media continue to trumpet the notion that defunding Planned Parenthood will prevent tax dollars from being spent on abortions. This has […]
Republicans in congress are using the budget cuts debate as a way to slip their climate denying, anti-woman ideology into the bill, while house democrats attempt to meet Republicans, more than halfway, to avert a government shutdown. As of this post there are 7 hours, 55 minutes, and 20 seconds until a possible shutdown if […]
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