Comedian Julie Klausner organized a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood that has netted over $5,000 after an incident on an airplane involving the pro-life former Ohio governor John Kasich. Klausner, the creator and star of the Hulu series “Difficult People,” said on her podcast earlier this month that she had been bumped from her seat by…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers that blame Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were hung on the doors of Iowa organizations. The hate flyers discovered on Monday are the same ones posted on at least four college campuses across the country. The flyers were posted on the doors…
There’s a lot that people don’t know about sex therapist and sexual evangelist Doctor Ruth Westheimer. The 4’7” Holocaust survivor was a sniper in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. She maintains one of the best Twitters in existence. She is quadrilingual. And one of her early jobs was as a researcher at Planned Parenthood. In…
A regional chapter of Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday that it was cancelling a planned speech by Women’s March co-president Tamika D. Mallory amid a growing controversy over her ties to the anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan. Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, which represents the states of Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Hawaii, issued a statement announcing…
In June, Missouri’s state legislators were called back to Jefferson City for a special session. Such a move is rare, and Gov. Eric Greitens did it to try to push through legislation significantly limiting access of women in the state to abortions. Other red states have passed similar laws. But the one Greitens wants, which…
When the Trump administration signaled its recent intention to cancel the federal requirement that many religious employers offer birth control coverage in health insurance plans, it was framed as a victory for religious freedom. As in, “I’m a boss, and my faith teaches that life begins at conception, and therefore preventing conception is akin to…
Jon Ossoff slammed his Republican opponent for a controversy involving breast cancer screenings and Planned Parenthood in their first debate in the high-stakes Georgia special election for Congress. The Jewish Democrat slammed Karen Handel for her actions as an official of the Susan G. Komen Foundation when she sought to cut ties with the women’s…
There was a true meeting of the minds last night on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards joined Sarah Silverman to talk about the dismal treatment of women at the hands of the Commander-in-Chief. Richards said that, despite having explained in great detail to Ivanka Trump the essential, non-abortion-related services provided by…
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