Great news, everyone! We now have a date and time set for The Sin City Sirens bowling team for the National Network of Abortion Funds bowl-a-thon! Join us on Sunday, April 15 at 1pm at the South Point Bowling alley! Sign up for the team here! Or, just show up with a donation and join…
It’s that time of year again: Time to bowl for abortion access for the National Abortion Access Bowl-A-Thon! I am proud to say that SCS has participated all three years of this event. But this year is special, because this year I am not just doing a virtual campaign to raise money for this good…
Is carrying condoms a crime? In New York it might just stop being evidence of one, if a new bill passes the state assembly. Just as Rush Limbaugh’s outrageous slut-shaming was hitting the airwaves, a bill that may help a lot of sex workers — as well as any woman who carries condoms in her…
So, admitted drug addict and destroyer of “traditional” marriage Rush Limbaugh shouted “Slut!” into his microphone this week and the country has turned on a dime. (Cue: Sound of record scratch.) Well, well, well lookey what we have here, folks. We’ve got ourselves a good old-fashioned slut-shaming! Honestly, I feel a little disappointed in Rush.…
Once again, a move to ensure access to affordable health care for all people is getting reduced to another gambit in the War on Women. Following the news that the Obama administration has enacted a rule requiring that most insurance plans cover birth control, conservatives and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops — who no…
When news broke earlier today that Susan G. Komen for the Cure was breaking with their long-standing partnership with Planned Parenthood and not renewing funding for breast cancer screenings, it is not over-stating it to say a bomb went off in the pro-choice community. Several hours later, I still don’t think my twitter feed has…
Just wanted to quickly thank Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada for putting on a wonderful event with Voices of for Choice tonight. The place was packed with awesome pro-choice people representing a wide cross-section of our community — from ages 16 to (proudly) 63, women, men, LGBTQ individuals, mothers and fathers, child-free by choice, multicultural,…
On this 39th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the guiding question for NARAL’s Blog for Choice Day is this: What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012? And this got me thinking about the famous JFK quote, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do…
If you ever needed a good reason to buy Girl Scout cookies, here it is: Following an incident in which a transgender child was rebuked and turned away from a Denver troop last fall, Girl Scouts released a statement saying they were inclusive to any youth who present themselves as girls. Now, anti-LGBT forces are…
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