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I worked for the MassGAP project that put together those binders and I was stung to see women’s advocates join a partisan attack. Some issues, like rape and domestic violence, deserve our fierce nonpartisan attention.
Mockery of the gaffe went viral during the debate and shortly after the Obama campaign release an ad featuring the comment, which a writer at the Boston Phoenix calls misleading to boot.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s record on budgeting priorities, abortion, health reform and pay equity has women’s advocates fuming over Mitt Romney’s choice of Republican running mate. Roundup of news, blogs and press statements.
Romney attacks welfare policy around the same time that a prominent journalist links single motherhood to the nation’s glaring class divide. Mimi Abramovitz says this distracts from what really keeps single mothers and their children down and out.
The U.S. appeals court in Boston ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, while the anti-choice group Live Action released a video against Planned Parenthood.
The president continued his outreach to female voters on Monday with a commencement speech at Barnard College, call to make May 13-19 National Women’s Health Week and an appearance on the “The View.”
The days leading up to the Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, April 17 brought a Romney campaign flub and a repeal of Wisconsin’s equal pay law.
On March 23, the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act –and right before the constitutionality of the individual mandate goes to the Supreme Court next week –women’s organizations were ramping up support and explaining the law to voters. The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health issued a press release explaining how Latinas in particular benefit from the law.
Nancy L. Cohen says the roster of GOP presidential contenders is bringing 40 years of sexual counter-revolution to a crescendo. The party’s rightwing social agenda is so secure it barely merits any mention.