Yoest has a long record of undermining women’s access to health care by distorting the facts; her selection shows the administration is pandering to extreme evangelical conservatives.
The new NBC/WSJ poll reveals that by a wide margin Planned Parenthood is significantly more popular than Mike Pence who is even more despised than Trump.
This is the right of a woman and her doctor.These decisions should be made between the two of them with open, careful, honest, truthful consults. Not the legislature.
This bill wasn’t written with the intent to protect or govern on the side of the woman. It was written to save fetuses.
The diverse protesters said that what is about to happen to any American at the hands of Trump Republicans “should never happen to anyone.”
"Thanks to the Obama Administration women will still be able to access the birth control they need to plan their families, and cancer screenings they need to stay healthy.”
NOW President Terry O'Neill issued a statement demanding Speaker Ryan call of the Planned Parenthood probe or turn it into a probe on anti-abortion violence.
According to a new poll, when voters were informed about the religious Republican drive to ban access to legal abortion in the states, they were "disgusted and angry" and two-thirds of voters want Republicans stopped in their tracks.
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals' religious edicts
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women's reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
Now, the Republicans' first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women's right to choose when they give birth.
Rep. Chris Smith's bill amends the Internal Revenue Service code to require IRS auditors to investigate and interrogate sexual-assault survivors who access abortion care.
International Women's Day celebrated the advances women have made - despite the Republican Party's efforts to drag us back to the days when freedom was reserved for white men.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to have some company on the campaign trail. Women around the country are already mobilizing against the Romney/Ryan ticket.
The past two years should give all Americans pause at what conservative Christians in control of the government would mean for women.
NOW/PAC endorses President Obama, drawing clear contrast between Obama's pro women's rights achievements and Romney's efforts to turn the clock back to the 1950's.
The National Organization for Women has announced a campaign to hit Rush Limbaugh in the wallet by pressuring local businesses and radio stations to stop doing business with him.
There is an attack on liberty in America from the corporate world, but there is a not-so-covert attack on women that is quietly steering America toward a theocracy. For example, a State Constitutional amendment on the Colorado ballot intends on extending personhood to a fetus and a fertilized ovary.
