More buzz for the potential first female president of the United States.
The House Minority Leader may have inadvertently implied women with small children shouldn’t run for office.
Pelosi speaks out on the anti-choice assault on women’s rights, a Thai airline seeks to hire transgender women as flight attendants, women use less epidural anesthesia during labor when they control their own pain relief, and a heart-breaking attack on women’s shelters in Afghanistan.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi succeeded in her bid to become House Minority Leader in the new Congress.
Sexism was a successful strategy in this election – for male Democrats and Republicans. The only group for which it didn’t work so well was women.
Despite being embroiled in a lawsuit in Ohio for false advertising, the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List continues using the false charge of “taxpayer-funded abortion” to attempt to sway millions of voters.
“We’re not violent” anti-choice extremists are holding a contest that includes asking supporters to burn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy.
Reports of the death of the public option were greatly exaggerated. In fact, Democrats now have a chance to move further to the left. Also, can reproductive choice help reverse climate change?
Colorado Abortion Clinic Threatened; Bachmann Speaks out against Obama’s Proposal to Lessen Restrictions on Abortion;
Nancy Pelosi Meets with the Pope in Italy
Women who supported Hillary Clinton for president may be inclined to measure the Democratic National Convention in Denver for what it is not: a place where history will be made with the first woman at the top of a major-party presidential ticket. Yet the convention can also be used as a measure for what it is: a showcase of the progress women have made over the last century.
