Kansas legislators pass sweeping anti-abortion bill claiming that "life begins at fertilization."

Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution :   Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure Friday night, sen...

Hillary Clinton: "Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights." Gee, if ONLY the Republican party could understand that fact.

Courtesy of Yahoo News :   Hillary Clinton delivered a rousing speech on women’s rights on Friday, insisting that empowering women is a “c...

The many victims of rape.

I read this heartbreaking story the other day in the Alaska Dispatch and thought it was incredibly powerful and something that needed to be...

Study finds that Alaska is terribly inhospitable to women. And here I thought it was just me.

Courtesy of ADN :   Alaska women earn less than men, were imprisoned at a higher rate during the last decade and are committing suicide at ...

A Needed Response. Directed toward the Steubenville rapists.

Courtesy of HuffPo :  "Hey bros, check who passed out on the couch," the guy in the video begins, staring into the camera, as a s...

Your topless photo of a nineteen year old girl, for a very good reason, of the day.

The writing says: "My body belongs to me." Courtesy of Al Arabiya :   A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old gir...

Woman tells Army Chaplain about her rape, is told the rape was God’s will and that "God was trying to get her attention" so that she "would go back to church.”

Army Sgt. Rebekah Havrilla . Proof positive that having access to guns will not prevent rape. Courtesy of Army Times :   Former Army Sgt. R...

If your celebration of "Women's History Month" begins with Abigail Adams and ends with Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, you probably do not understand why we celebrate women in history.

Courtesy of Opposing Views :     Concerned Women for America, a Christian political action group, recently produced a video (below) to cele...

In anti-abortion zeal Texas Republicans cut funds to family planning clinics, now scrambling to replace funding with realization those cuts may result in 24,000 additional births at a cost to taxpayers of 273 million.

Courtesy of the New York Times :   The fight to restore family-planning financing that was cut from the Texas budget in the last legislativ...

Let's take a moment to look around and see how Republican lawmakers are currently damaging our country.

These examples come to us courtesy of Salon . First up criminalizing gun control:   In Missouri, state Rep. Mike Leara believes even proposi...

Study finds that most mass shootings target women and families, and are perpetrated by men with legally purchased weapons.

Courtesy of Alternet : A new analysis of 56 mass shootings across America since 2009 finds women and family members are the most frequent vi...

"Is that your nipple I see?" Those words spoken by a North Carolina police officer might soon mean jail time, as a new bill is set to make a woman's areola indecent.

Actress Milla Jovovich should probably avoid North Carolina. Here is the portion of the bill referred to in the headline:  (a1) Unless the ...

Final thought of the day.

Ain't it the truth?

Alabama State Senator wants to pass personhood bill because he is afraid that unborn zygotes might go to hell.

I guess this story is a day or two old now, but I just stumbled across it the other day and felt it was something that really needed more at...

The issue on guns in this country may drive voters to the polls in 2014, but not in the way that the Republicans are hoping.

Courtesy of TPM :   Women who don’t usually vote in midterm elections — the same women who generally drive Democratic victories — will turn ...

Ireland admits it cooperated with Catholic church to enslave women and force them to work in sweatshop like conditions for over seventy years.

Courtesy of CBS :   Ireland has admitted some responsibility for workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once kept thousands of women and teen...

Pastor claims that women who use the pill have "tiny fetuses embedded in their wombs" and serve as "graveyards for lots of little babies."

From Americans Against the Tea Party : TEApublican radio host Pastor Kevin Swanson is certainly no scientist. On his radio show he claimed...

Before you reference the Bible to support your homophobic, racist, sexist, or anti-science beliefs, you better make damn sure you have read the whole thing.

Here is the passage in its entirety:   13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives h...

President Obama's pre-Superbowl interview. For those that may have missed it.

Courtesy of Politicususa :   Pelley’s first question returned to the subject of Obama letting his theoretical son play football. The presi...

Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigns after being caught chatting up the ladies on his state issued cell phone.

Courtesy of the Washington Post :   Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned Saturday after “breaking the public trust,” Gov. Dave Heineman sa...