Today marks the start of 77th (regular) session of the Nevada Legislature! Can you feel the excitement? For the next 120 days of the (regular) session, people across the state will be watching (and hopefully participating in great events like Grass Roots Lobby Days) as our representatives tackle the business of the Silver State. And…
Make it rain: Today is the fourth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But we still don’t have a Paycheck Fairness Act, which would give Ledbetter the teeth to go after wage discrimination. And just a reminder, women are still working more than 100 days into the following year to equal what a…
I wrote a series of posts in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade on Tuesday, Jan. 22. What is the state of Roe today? What is our legacy? These questions and more are examined in the links below. 40 Years of Roe: Choice in a Post-choice Era Abortion and Maternal Instinct People…
When it comes to Roe, I always circle back to access. My mom was in high school when she got pregnant with me in 1976. She contemplated abortion but there were many hurdles, just three years after the Roe decision, in her small, rural Midwest town. (I wrote about it in a post a few…
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision handed down on Jan. 22, 2013. The case validated a woman’s right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the due process clause within the 14th Amendment. Perhaps it is no accident that it is the 14th Amendment — the very…
From our friends at Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada: Join PPSN in commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade! January 22nd, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. In commemoration of this important event, Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada will be holding a wonderful and engaging panel of speakers…
While researching a post on the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade (stay tuned for that one), I came across this handy graphing tool on the Guttmacher Institute website. I can’t get it to work on my blog hosting platform (hint, hint, WordPress!). Plug in your state, and you will find the latest numbers on…
Anti-choice advocates have a friend in feticide laws. Akin to personhood laws, as far as I can tell, there is no upside to feticide laws. The supposed intent of such laws is to add a charge of murder to anyone who kills a fetus through violence. However, these laws are often really about criminalizing the…
Blame it on the red tape: City officials for Steubenville, Ohio have started a blog to “disseminate the most accurate information” regarding the (alleged) gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by the city’s high school football team. I suppose this is one of those the-best-defense-is-a-good-offense approaches after they’ve been publicly shamed by the hacker collective…
* TRIGGER WARNING * When I woke up today, within minutes I was confronted by the livestream of Occupy Steubenville. The groundswell protest and public display of rage against rape culture, shed a powerful light on the plight of the 16 year-old girl who was raped repeatedly (and carried to different locations for more rape)…
The Sin City Siren 