Politics

Tell Senators Who Voted Against Nelson-Hatch Amendment Thank You or Express Outrage if Your Senator Voted For It

by ms. magazine · December 17, 2009

The Senate defeated the anti-choice Nelson-Hatch amendment to health care reform by a vote of 54-45! Send your Senators who voted against Nelson-Hatch a thank you for voting against this deplorable amendment that sought to deny women choice. And make sure to send Senators who voted for the amendment an email telling them that you are outraged they voted for an amendment that would be the biggest rollback to a woman’s rights to choose in decades. ...Read More →

Arts

Atwood’s apocalypse

by ms. magazine · December 16, 2009

By Nisi Shawl IS IT POSSIBLE TO PREVENT A planet-scale ecocatastrophe? What would the consequences of preventing such an event be? Would the consequences be acceptable? Iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood has once again written about a distressingly near future in which mass murder may be the best way to save the ...Read More

Life

Cyberhood is powerful

by ms. magazine · December 17, 2009

“As a mother of three, there are very few things that are entirely mine,” wrote Jill Smokler of Washington, D.C., in a recent post to her blog Scary Mommy. “My bed is inevitably invaded by all of the kids sometime throughout the night. My favorite foods are devoured by mouths other than mine and my cosmetics are used for dress-up these days as often as on my own face. My car is filled with car seats and stale Cheerios and my purse is so stuffed with junk for the kids that I can’t even carry my own sunglass case. But this blog? It’s mine. All mine. And that’s what I love about ...Read More

Media

media post test

by ms. magazine · February 3, 2010

Your Klean Kanteen® is made from thick, 18/8 (#304) stainless steel and is designed to be lightweight yet extremely durable. If you take care of it, it may very well last your lifetime. Here are a few tips to help keep your bottle fresh and clean over the long haul. Washing Your Bottles and Caps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOaWlhyitoY * Kanteen® Classic and Wide bottles in Brushed Stainless are dishwasher safe. We recommend handwashing colored bottles and Insulated bottles. * Classic Loop and Sport Caps made of polypropylene (pp#5), and the Wide Café Cap are dishwasher safe. All Classic and ...Read More

Justice

Sotomayor Hearings and the Culture Wars

by ms. magazine · December 16, 2009

Posted by Eleanor Smeal Buried in the stories about the Sonia Sotomayor hearings are mentions of the arrests at the hearings of four anti-abortion protestors, including Norma McCorvey, who is the Roe of Roe v. Wade. Not mentioned is the disgusting, little pamphlet being handed out there by supporters of Randall Terry, founder of the original Operation Rescue, an extreme anti-abortion group. In launching his 12-city tour to “defeat” Sotomayor he released this horrifying skeleton image of Sotomayor. Take a look at it and realize the depths to which the “culture wars” have sunk. If it makes ...Read More

Economy

Will We Ignore Brooksley Born AGAIN?

by ms. magazine · December 16, 2009

By Katherine Spillar, executive editor, Ms. magazine Eleven years ago, U.S. economic leaders should have listened to Brooksley Born. Then head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Born was concerned about new and unregulated futures markets. They were growing at tremendous rates, yet their risks were not fully understood. She was especially wary of the lack of transparency in trading over-the-counter private “derivatives,” so she issued a call for comments about the need for regulation and oversight. As Narda Zacchino and Robert Scheer point out in their piece about Born in the ...Read More

Health

Crisis Pregnancy Centers Designed to Misinform

by Alexandra Tweten · February 4, 2010

Ever seen that billboard on the highway that says “Pregnant? We can help!” with an image of a young woman? Ever wonder how they help pregnant women? Well, the goal of that billboard, sponsored by Birthright International, is to “help support a woman’s desire not to have an abortion.” While organizations like this might seem unbiased, they ...Read More

Tell Senators Who Voted Against Nelson-Hatch Amendment Thank You or Express Outrage if Your Senator Voted For It

by ms. magazine · December 17, 2009

Take Action to Protect a Women’s Health Clinic under Attack in Charlotte, NC

by ms. magazine · December 17, 2009

Family Reproductive Health, in Charlotte, North Carolina needs our help now. Operation Save America is trying to shut down this vital women’s health care and abortion provider. Operation Save America leader Flip Benham and his followers – including a registered sex offender — set up a tall ladder to peer over the clinic’s 6-foot ...Read More

More outrage over Stupak-Pitts

by ms. magazine · December 16, 2009

By Carole Joffe, Ms. Washington Correspondent “Our medical experts have determined that your life was not in danger and you could have carried the pregnancy to term. And, by the way, you owe us $9,000.” Her voice breaking, D.J. Feldman, a Washington, D.C. federal employee, recently spoke to the press about her struggles with her insurance company ...Read More

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