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Cher on GOP’s war on women: ‘This is sick stuff’

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Oscar-winning actress and singer Cher and comic Kathy Griffin have teamed up to film an ad for the pro-Obama Super PAC, the Jewish Council for Education & Research titled “Don’t Let Mitt Turn Back Time on Women.” “There’s a lot at stake in this election,” Cher said, “for women and…

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MSNBC contributor calls Joe Walsh out for abortion comments

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MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid hammered Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) on Hardball Friday during a discussion on the Republican party’s positions on women’s health issues. “This is a guy who won’t even take responsibility for the births that he is directly responsible for producing,” Reid told host Chris Matthews, referring to…

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FBI steps in as attacks on Georgia women’s clinics escalate

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A series of break-ins and arson incidents have workers and patients at women’s health clinics in Atlanta on “heightened alert,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The FBI and ATF are conducting a joint investigation of what appears to be a sharp escalation in a campaign to intimidate and threaten providers…

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Limbaugh: Barbara Boxer supports ‘murdering women before they’re born’

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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday blasted Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-FL) as someone who supports “murdering women before they’re born” after she recently claimed that the Republican “war on women” was real. In an op-ed for Politico over the weekend, the Democratic senator wrote that “Republicans have launched a…

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Reince Priebus Doubles Down on the ‘War on Caterpillars’ Rhetoric

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Ladies?  The GOP thinks we’re stupid: On Wednesday, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts gave Priebus a chance to revise his remarks. “I’m not going to walk back,” the RNC chairman insisted. “I’ll double down on it. This war on women is a fiction that the Democrats have created. And the real…

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Nikki Haley Thinks Women Don’t Care About Contraception. ORLY.

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You gotta love it when the GOP shines up its vaginally-enhanced Republicans and pushes them on stage to make their stupid arguments about women’s health for them. A few weeks ago, they pushed Cathy McMorris-Rodgers on stage and she made a right ass of herself by claiming that Democrats are…

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Rep. Yarmuth: Limbaugh’s remark ‘part of GOP assault on women’s health’

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Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) said Tuesday on the House floor that the Republican Party needed to halt its attacks on women’s reproductive rights, associating their legislative agenda with the recent firestorm surrounding conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. “Rush Limbaugh’s appalling attack on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke is no…

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Why “inconsequential” isn’t an argument

The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services has released a report demonstrating that progressives weren’t kidding around when we said that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was going to deprive all insured women of abortion coverage over time. The report concludes that “the treatment exclusions required under the…

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