Originally published January 17, 2012 A century after suffragists and abolitionists fought for the rights of women to vote and the rights of slaves to be free, my parents educated my sisters and me about injustices perpetrated against people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or gender. In the sixties, my mother placed a sticker […]
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Originally published February 14, 2012 As I travel the country by train to share the rich history of the early American feminists, I follow the same routes that Susan B. Anthony took to champion women’s suffrage more than a century ago. She knew every route by heart. But Anthony was more than just the leader
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Originally published March 14, 2012 Two years ago, President Obama signed an executive order banning federal funding for abortions in health care reform and extended the restrictions to the newly created health care insurance exchanges. Under the current law, federal funds cannot go toward abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and when the life
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Originally published April 5, 2012 Girls Deserve Better than Statutory Rape and Secret Abortions: Would you let some man take your daughter to surgery without telling you? How about taking her across state lines? Unbelievably, there is no legal protection against taking a child across state lines for an abortion, even if you live in a
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