Two members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot have fled Russia to evade arrest, according to the Huffington Post. Three members of the band were found guilty of “hooliganism” and sentenced to two years in prison earlier this month. The maximum sentence for the charges was seven years. The hooliganism conviction stems from an action […]
Incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is leading by 10 points over challenger Congressman Todd Akin, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday. This is the first time Senator McCaskill has led in the polls since May. She currently has 48 percent support to Akin’s 38 percent. The new poll shows the impact of explosive statements […]
Women in southern Texas are increasingly traveling to Mexican pharmacies to obtain a drug to induce medical abortions because abortion clinics are restricted in the state. The drug, misoprostol, is an effective method for terminating a pregnancy within the first nine weeks – when taken in the correct dosage, according to the World Health Organization. […]
The video that inspired the founding of the group We Are Woman is titled “We are Warriors,” and as the the national rally for women’s rights that the group organized came to a close last Saturday in Washington, D.C., the members of We Are Woman did indeed feel like warriors. Saturday’s rally attracted more than […]
Women’s Equality Day is coming up this Sunday! Tis’ the season to mobilize for women’s rights! Women’s Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. It is a time where many advocates for women’s rights get together to celebrate and rally to advance women’s equality. In the […]
Personhood USA criticized the Romney-Ryan ticket after the campaign announced it would not oppose abortion in cases of rape. The radical “pro-life” organization originally praised Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan for his continued efforts to defend “personhood” – which could ban emergency contraception, birth control pills, and IUDs as well as all abortions, even in […]
Mitt Romney will announce that the senior US Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give a benediction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Cardinal Dolan was requested to speak personally by convention organizers, according to a press statement released by the Archdiocese of New York. The press release states that the Cardinal is will […]
Seventy-seven graduate programs will no longer be available to women in Iranian universities across the country, according to Iranian new site Rooz Online. The restrictions were added to the academic manuals of institutions this year without any warning. Since a news outlet discovered the restrictions earlier this month, the Ministry of Education and universities have […]
A federal court ruled on Tuesday in favor of Texas, allowing the state to move forward in banning government funding for Planned Parenthood under the Texas Women’s Health Program. In March, Governor Rick Perry implemented a rule that excludes affiliates of abortion providers from the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, essentially cutting any government funding to […]
Today the Democratic National Convention Committee announced an additional slate of speakers with a focus on women leaders. The committee noted that these speakers will join Michele Obama, Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, and California Attorney General Kamala Harris in taking the stage at the DNC. The newly announced speakers include: – Seven-term Congresswoman and now […]
According to a recent poll by NBC/The Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama has a 15 point advantage among female voters over Mitt Romney for the 2012 presidential election. The recent poll data [PDF] shows that President Obama leads by six points over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney among all registered voters. When the responses […]
The Augusta National Golf Club invited Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore to become the first female members in the club’s history after pressure from women’s groups and advocates. Since the club opened its doors eighty years ago, Augusta has maintained a strict male-only membership policy with women able to play the course as guests. Rice […]
The Republican Party plans to reaffirm its stance on abortion by once again including a “human life amendment” to the Constitution in its official platform. The proposed amendment would ban all abortion with no exceptions as well as some forms of contraception. The Republican Party’s official platform committee drafted the provision Monday, and still must […]
On a local Missouri TV station on Sunday, Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) claimed that “legitimate rape” does not usually lead to pregnancy. Akin’s claims have prompted outcries from both sides of the aisle, and caused increased scrutiny on the Romney-Ryan ticket’s stance on abortion access. “First of all, from what I […]
Hundreds of women converged on the U.S. Capitol Saturday for We Are Woman, a national rally that aimed to target the war on women being waged by conservative politicians and promote reproductive rights, equal pay, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment Speakers at the rally included Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and representatives […]
In an exclusive report, Politico reveals the FBI investigated a GOP “fact-finding Congressional trip” to Israel where several lawmakers took a drunken late night dip in the Sea of Galilee. The trip, sponsored by the American Israel Educational Foundation, included over 60 congress members, family, and staff, and cost $10,000 per person. According to the […]
Three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of “hooliganism” and sentenced to two years in prison today in Russia. The maximum sentence for the charges was seven years. In a case that has garnered international attention, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, and Marina Alyokhina, 24, have been in jail […]
Nearly 6 million people in the United States will not be allowed to vote in the upcoming presidential election for one reason. As the November election nears, voting rights have become an important topic of conversation. From photo ID requirements to early voting restrictions, the negative effects of barriers to voting are being foreseen, not […]
The fight for Saudi women’s rights has been well-documented in the press, especially the high-profile protests women’s rights activists launched on the heels of the Arab Spring in hopes to win the right to drive in the Kingdom, the only place in the world where women are legally not permitted to get behind the wheel. This observation […]
On Wednesday Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that all Ohio districts will follow a uniform early-voting policy. Husted’s announcement comes after intense media attention and public scrutiny over what a New York Times Op-Ed called “overt discrimination” in Ohio’s early-voting restrictions. Earlier this week, we reported that early voting stations in Ohio’s Democratic-leaning […]
