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Congratulations @plannedparenthood on your 100th
anniversary! Here’s to another 100 years of high-quality, accessible health
care for women who need it most! #100YearsStrong
Femi-List: SCOTUS Edition
1. Catch me up: On March 2nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on its biggest abortion case in decades, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Long story short: Texas passed medically unnecessary, ridiculous laws to restrict abortion access. Clinics sued. Now, the Supreme Court is stepping in.
2. So, is Texas for real? Samantha Bee went digging, and found that Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn, one of the authors of the initial bill, doesn’t actually know how abortions work. Shocker.
3. Yeah, this is ridiculous: President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards isn’t having any of Texas’s hypocrisy. Because if a state does everything it can to stop you from getting a safe abortion, do you really have that right at all?
4. Thank God for Notorious RBG: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan weren’t having it either. During oral arguments, they tore apart Texas’s argument and stood up for women’s reproductive rights. Can we fill up the Supreme Court entirely with women?
When the Supreme Court hears arguments this week in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt — the Center for Reproductive Rights’ challenge to the unprecedented barriers Texas created in 2013 to stop women from accessing safe and legal abortion — the first question justices should ask is this:
If the state bars you from exercising a constitutional right, do you really have that right at all?
That’s what’s at stake in Hellerstedt, which challenges the Texas legislature’s H.B. 2, a law imposing medically unnecessary requirements on health centers, regulating everything from the width of hallways to the outfitting of janitors’ closets — specifications that many health centers find impossible to fulfill and that do nothing to improve the quality of health care for women. Medical experts oppose this law because it hurts women by shutting down clinics and blocking access to safe, legal abortion — our right guaranteed by the court in Roe v. Wade.
Femi-List, 1/9
1. JLaw stands with Planned Parenthood: In an interview with Glamour, she talks about how for kids who grow up in families where reproductive health is taboo – like her own – it is so crucial to have access to Planned Parenthood. http://bit.ly/1VJHLu8
2. TBS turns to feminism: Rashida Jones AND Samantha Bee? TBS’s 2016 fall lineup is the stuff feminist dreams are made of. http://bit.ly/22Q7yFS
3. Hillary Clinton is headed back to The Tonight Show: We love it when Hillary gets a chance to show her funny side on late night TV! http://bit.ly/1PjafWO
And now, [because I had Planned Parenthood,] I am a successful woman who has not had a pregnancy […] but seriously. What harm comes from supplying people with birth control, condoms, Pap smears, and cancer screenings?
Femi-List, 10/31
A feminist coloring book celebrating the complex lives of women. Mix ‘n’ match your favorite feminist icons.http://huff.to/1GBc1of
1. Best Halloween costume we’ve seen yet. Lena Dunham is dressing as a Planned Parenthood doctor! She says she’s going as something “newsy, sexy, and cool.” We agree! http://huff.to/1M14Nqg
2. Obama gets it. Check out his remarks to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. He praised them – and told the audience what it means to play like a girl! http://huff.to/1kgnQ91
3. A feminist coloring book celebrating the complex lives of women. Mix ‘n’ match your favorite feminist icons.http://huff.to/1GBc1of
Today our staff wore all pink to thank Planned
Parenthood for their services.
We will not let Ted Cruz shut down this government over Planned Parenthood! He wants a fight over Planned Parenthood? My answer is, ‘Bring it on, Ted!’
Elizabeth Warren, September 2015