11/19/09-by Paula Brooks The Obama administration distanced itself Wednesday from new recommendations on breast cancer screening called for earlier this week by a federally appointed task force after concerns among women caused lawmakers of both sides of the isle to attack... (Continue reading)
Ten days ago, the House passed the Stupak Amendment, which would be one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health and rights in recent decades; unless we stand together and stop it, this will provide license for our rights to... (Continue reading)
11/17/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Monday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York attended a rally to call for the defeat of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which was put into the Healthcare reform bill by the House. The amendment, largely pushed by the... (Continue reading)
Image by Freedom To Marry via Flickr 11/12/09-by Paula Brooks New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced today that she would be holding a press conference with other elected women in Manhattan next Monday. They are expected to speak out against the Stupak-Pitts... (Continue reading)
11/11/09-by Paula Brooks I am not the daughter of the privileged… I am the daughter of a career military man, who is the son of a career military man, who was the son of a career military man… and I have... (Continue reading)
11/10/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “Today, the American Medical Association took a principled stance against a law that clearly has a negative impact on military healthcare, military medical providers, and our troops.” With those words, Alexander Nicholson, founder and executive director... (Continue reading)
11/10/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Representative Lynn Woolsey has called upon the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the creation and passage of the Stupak Amendment in a brief article at Politico. “The amendment... (Continue reading)
11/10/09-by Paula Brooks This afternoon, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York went on the Senate floor and threw down the gauntlet on Rep. Bart Stupak’s anti-abortion health care amendment. “Proposing that women … purchase a separate abortion rider is not only discriminatory,... (Continue reading)
11/10/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Men carry in their seed a tiny homunculus which he plows into a woman’s fertile fields. What does that mean? Well, it means that abortion is murder, and so is masturbation, fellatio, contraception, and anything that... (Continue reading)
11/9/09-by Paula Brooks President Barak Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the Senate will “take the baton” and approve sweeping health care reform legislation, after the House narrowly passed its version Saturday night. In brief remarks from the Rose Garden yesterday, the president... (Continue reading)
Dear Melanie: It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California. With a young family and responsibilities at city hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to... (Continue reading)
10/01/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Representative Tammy Baldwin is hoping to increase funding to a segment of the population hit by the HIV/AIDS virus by increasing the amount of money that government spends on getting these individuals treatment. Currently, the Ryan... (Continue reading)
09/26/09-by Melanie Nathan It was just several months ago that White House officials were promising that President Obama would address immigration reform before the end of the year. It seems as if the LGBT immigration equality leadership has continued to hang... (Continue reading)
09/19/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire On 21 September, this upcoming Monday, the next National HIV/AIDS Community Discussion will be held in Washington, DC. The event is designed to discuss with the community a variety of ways in which to issues surrounding... (Continue reading)
09/18/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Representative Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin sat down to discuss the issue of the impact of the healthcare debate upon the LGBT community. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is the first openly lesbian member of Congress. Using YouTube,... (Continue reading)