Paul Ryan: Will swap unborn babies for vice presidency
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Less than two weeks after joining Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign as the GOP’s presumptive vice presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan has publicly confirmed his...
View ArticleLegitimate Rape: pharmaceutical ad
“Do you suffer from Sexually Liberated Uterine Tendencies? Now there’s a treatment that can help.” If you’ve ever been the victim of violence or coercion, this can be tough to watch. If you choose to...
View ArticleVote to protect your reproductive rights
There’s a war against women’s rights, against the progress we have made in the last 40 years toward achieving equity with men in education, employment and wages, political representation, healthcare,...
View ArticleI’ve had an abortion: Will my daughter be able to?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt It’s Tuesday in Highlands, N.J., and I’m taking Frank the contractor to lunch. He’s been such a great guy. He will rebuild my mother’s little house on the Jersey shore that was...
View ArticleWho’s been hit with the stupid stick?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt It’s been so, so stupid in political La-La Land of late. Bad stupid! One might have thought we’d enjoy a reprieve after the presidential elections. But, no. And there’s just so...
View ArticleI didn’t ask for the anal probe*
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt 24 Feb 2013 In the realm of women and their pregnancies, there are two basic types of ultrasounds. There’s the type folks commonly think of being performed on a pregnant woman’s...
View ArticleCelebrating Women’s History Month with Poetry
By Penny Perry Always a Line in the Women’s Room at the Greyhound Bus Depot Three stalls. Ten women waiting. Choose to not pee in my pants or miss the Greyhound. The bathroom dance — hopping to stop...
View ArticleOn abortion clinic buffer zones and busybodies
Sidewalk Counseling: Peacefully offering the women the opportunity to choose life for their unborn children –from the Pro-Life Action League By...
View ArticleMother’s Day 2014 in Poetry and Prose
Things Mother Taught Me By Kit-Bacon Gressitt When two people love each other very much, the father plants a seed inside the mother, where a baby grows. Then all hell breaks loose and the kid...
View ArticlePro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
An excerpt from Katha Pollitt’s new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Picador, October 14, 2014), reprinted with permission. RECLAIMING ABORTION Available at Powell’s and other independent...
View ArticleThe Idiocy-Capable, Unrealized Adults Protection Act
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt January 22 is a significant date for me. I make note of it every year. There are two reasons. One, January 22 is the day my mother, now dear and departed, birthed me. This year, I...
View ArticleMake the Hyde Amendment History
Our stories may differ, but our cause is united. Join us to lift bans on abortion coverage! Today is the 39th anniversary of the passage of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal Medicaid insurance...
View ArticleInternational Literacy Day 8 September 2016
Didn’t know there is an International Literacy Day? UNESCO initiated International Literacy Day in 1965, to help promote the importance of literacy. Read more here. A 2014 recreational reading study by...
View ArticleTrump: I Love War
New anti-Trump advertisement from Priorities USA About Priorities USA Priorities USA Action was founded in 2011 to educate and engage Americans to speak out and stand strong against the outdated views...
View ArticleDid she deserve it?
And when, if ever, is misogyny funny? By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Disclaimer 1: I know it is not wise to watch videos posted on social media. More often than not, their contents suggest that weird folks...
View ArticleTulsa Police: “He looks like a big bad dude”
From a press conference, spoken by Dr. Tiffany Crutcher You all want to know who that big bad dude was? That big bad dude was my twin brother That big bad dude was a father That big bad dude was a...
View ArticleShare this video: Save the Day Vote by Josh Whedon
Josh Whedon’s new PSA video culls some favorite entertainers from popular shows* to joke to the rooftops: Save the Day – Vote! If you haven’t yet registered to vote in the presidential election, on...
View ArticleHistory Today? “The White Race and the Negroes”
White supremacy isn’t just for anti-government loonies By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Political polling suggests the worst could come to pass in the November presidential election; another gunman goes on a...
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