My inbox runneth over with interesting events around the state for progressive folks who’d like to promote the general welfare. Here’s a sampling: Friday and…
Tag: women
South Dakota Right to Life VP and fellow educator Spencer Cody contacted me last week with this request, which I assume he is sending to all…
Along with giving the Sanders campaign 80% of what it wants, the national Democratic Party platform, as drafted last weekend, rejects the poor-shaming misogyny of the Hyde…
The Texas Tribune reported last week that the Texas Department of Health Services has since February been withholding data that could show the impact of Texas’s abortion clinic restrictions…
North Carolina, like South Dakota, makes women wait 72 hours to get an abortion, for their own good. North Carolina at least does not compound…
Tuesday’s primary candidates aren’t the only folks knocking on doors and asking for South Dakotans’ support today. (Reynold, Patrick, Joan, Darrell, Carmen, Deb, Lora, Stace, Caleb, Dan,…
Governing points toward a report by McKinsey & Company that says achieving full gender equality in the U.S. could add $4.3 trillion to U.S. GDP. In…
Yesterday the House approved Senate Bill 72, South Dakota’s latest sex-hating, woman-hating, Constitution-hating abortion restriction. This time, we’re writing dubious “science” about fetal pain (see also here and here) into state law and…
Don’t expect me to celebrate the Senate’s mild watering dow of the fetal-pain abortion ban yesterday. Senate Bill 72 is still a bad bill, based on bad science, and…
The South Dakota Legislature does not wage war on women’s rights and transgender inclusivity unopposed. Two important days of action are coming up next week. First, Equality…