Following our extensive discussions of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, and amidst the heat and bother over Gordon Howie's statement that life begins before sperm meets egg, Larry Kurtz sent me an essay by the Guardian's Jessica Valenti arguing…
Posts tagged as “women”
Chuck Clement finds a couple of honyockers preaching on the bypass in Madison. The basic gist of their bad theology: remarried divorcees are adulterers, women should shut up, and salvation depends on your action, not God's: Two men who are…
South Dakota law requires women to wait 72 hours—and sometimes longer—to have an abortion. Only Utah forces women to delay their health care decisions that long. Missouri tried to become the third state to impose a 72-hour abortion-waiting period on…
Julie Rovner follows up on a report she did for NPR in 2012 noting that Hobby Lobby and other corporations who want to deny women coverage for birth control are still discriminating on the basis of sex and pregnancy under…
Subversion and hooch afoot! Unapologetic liberals are gathering for libations at Wiley's Tavern at 330 North Main in Sioux Falls after work today, 5 p.m., as they reconstitute the Sioux Falls chapter of Drinking Liberally. Among topics that may stir…
Readers have asked where Democratic gubernatorial candidates Joe Lowe and Susan Wismer stand on women's reproductive rights. Bob Mercer gives us some insight on that issue by asking Lowe and Wismer what one abortion-related law they would pass, repeal, or…
Legal team, clean-up on Aisle 1.... Let's begin with the pretense that I'm not evil. —Annette Bosworth, press conference, Sioux Falls, SD, 2014.05.27, timestamp 07:15. On June 4, Attorney General Marty Jackley will feel free to indict fifth-place primary finisher…
Because Rebecca Leas is an outspoken critic of Powertech/Azarga's plan to pollute the Black Hills and use up our water to help the Chinese get rich off our uranium, Pat Powers portrays her as an out-of-touch feminist. Don't ask for…