Women’s Rights

Romney fails on women's rights

Mitt Romney taped a video endorsement ad for only one Senate candidate in this election. It was for Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Indiana who made the news this week when he declared he firmly believes women who become pregnant as a result of rape should be forced to carry … Continue Reading →

Vagina dialogues in Lansing

Well, the Republican guys in Lansing who gratuitously silenced their fellow Congresswomen saw that backfire in a big way. Their weak excuse of being offended by the “v” words to justify their heavy handed, undemocratic suppression of equal speech caught international attention. Now the whole world is talking about vaginas. Some five thousand showed up … Continue Reading →

Republican double standard on regulation

Adding to my previous post on the proper use of vagina, I find it very curious that when it comes to regulating pollution, or fraud, or safety in Big Business practices, Republicans continuously wail about supression and over regulation. Yet these things actually do have an effect on the public health and welfare. Meanwhile, they … Continue Reading →

The GOP's war on women: Michigan edition

Why are Republican men so afraid to let women speak? Furthering the national Republican agenda of attacking a woman’s right to make private decisions about what happens to her own body, I see the Republican men in Lansing have been busy rolling out a spate of proposed regulations that only apply to women’s reproductive rights. … Continue Reading →