40 Years After Roe, Many Women Still Lack Choices
January 22nd, 2013On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided by a 7-2 margin that a woman has a right to an abortion. Forty years later, though 70 percent of Americans support the court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, 87 percent of counties in the United States do not have one clinic that offers legal abortions, and
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Reading Guide: Where Romney And Obama Stand On The Supreme Court
October 26th, 2012by Suevon Lee ProPublica. The Supreme Court has remained a largely unspoken topic on the campaign trail — even though the Court plays a critical function in Americans’ lives. (This past June’s Affordable Care Act ruling, anyone?) The next president could very well appoint one or two new justices. And who steps down first could
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5 Ways America Would Be Different If Mitt Romney Had Won In 2008
October 23rd, 2012More than 5 million new private sector jobs; war in Iraq over; the auto industry reborn; al Qaeda’s leadership and bin Laden decimated; health insurance reform a century in the making; the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; the first sweeping new regulations of Wall Street in a decade… we know the America we live
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Mitt Romney’s Four Most Extreme Stands On Women’s Health
October 15th, 2012Mitt Romney has changed his views on abortion so many times that he can’t recall what his actual view is. Just last week, he told The Des Moines Register, “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.” Of course, this isn’t true. Quickly, his campaign
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Romney Reverses Again On Abortion
October 10th, 2012In his latest policy reversal of the campaign so far, Mitt Romney said Tuesday that no abortion legislation would be part of his agenda. This comes from the same candidate who earlier this year said he would scrap funding for Planned Parenthood, and appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. In statements
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