“It’s not a flash in the pan or a particular political moment—it’s a central part of the way the United States functions. And until we own that misogyny is as American as apple pie, women around the world will continue to suffer.”
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Five overlooked battles in the War on Women
Why have reproductive rights recently taken center stage in the nation’s political conversation? And how will voters respond?
Emily Douglas, senior editor at The Nation, discussed this and more with Sabrina Schaeffer of the Independent Women’s Forum and Kim Gandy of the Feminist Majority Foundation on Al Jazeera.
Read Emily Douglas’s latest piece on the war on women here.
Workers’ and Reproductive Rights Under Attack in Arizona
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, joined Ed Schultz this week to discuss a controversial bill in Arizona that would require women who want contraception coverage to prove that they are taking it for reasons other than pregnancy prevention. In Arizona, says vanden Heuvel, “you’ve seen an attempt to roll back workers’ rights and women’s reproductive rights. And now, in this bill, they’ve seemed to fuse the two together.”
More reproductive rights coverage here.
