You Can Be a Powerful Feminist and Love to Bake Pie
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cecile Richards is not a woman who messes around—she’s best known as outgoing president of Planned Parenthood, her time as deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and her work for her mother Ann Richards’ campaign for governor of Texas. What’s less…
“Get Going Before You’re Ready”: Outgoing Planned Parenthood Head Cecile Richards Has Advice for New Activists
Cecile Richards speaks to the crowd during the Women’s March, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cecile Richards is somehow both an eternal optimist and a straight shooter, two characteristics that propelled her to fame on what was supposed to be…
Supreme Court Justices Warn Anti-Abortion Groups That Their Argument Could Come Back to Hurt Them
Protests as the Supreme Court hears arguments on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators rallying outside, the Supreme Court heard National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra on Tuesday morning, the blockbuster case that could shift the law of the…
#MeToo Has Revived the Equal Rights Amendment
Left: Bella Abzug/AP; Right: Jeff Malet/Newscom/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four decades after the Equal Rights Amendment—the proposal to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution—was declared dead in the water, women’s rights groups think now is the moment to finally get it passed. And they’ll be testing their hypothesis…
Nancy Pelosi Just Endorsed a Congressman Who Opposes Abortion and Gay Rights
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Illinois Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski’s career is on life-support. The seven-term congressman from the Chicago area, who inherited his seat from his father, is facing a formidable primary challenge from businesswoman Marie Newman, whose campaign has been fueled by progressive anger…
This Bill Would Allow College Students To Get a Medication Abortion Without Leaving Campus
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bill that would require public university clinics to provide medication-based abortions is halfway to becoming law in California. SB 320, a first-of-its-kind bill inspired by a resolution from students at the University of California-Berkeley, applies to all UC and California State…