Married white women are the only ones who don't have to feel infinite shame for sullying their maidenhead. They shouldn't be happy about it, of course, though they can take pride in achieving a woman's greatest goal if they manage to have a child.

I love how conservatives are talking about Big Pharma. Ummm, aren't they the party of Free Market and aren't they the ones who halted legislation from the ACA that dealt with drugs? Fuck them.

Clearly she's in the pocket of Arm & Hammer.

yes yes yes! Dear Politicians: please stop touting affordable and easy access to family planning methods as a "Women's Issue" this is an economic issue, and one that affects the whole country.

"Cancer is a fungus."

I remember a study a while back showing that the most homophobic heterosexual men were also the ones most likely to become aroused by images of male same-sex pornography. One of the theories postulated was that the fear and hatred was based in shame at their own suppressed desires.

At $10-12K a year, I'm gonna say I could relate more to their financial situations than most of their other instructors, who were pulling down 45+.

You're not being fair. Sex is also okay for men in pretty much any circumstance.

No organization or individual does more in this country to reduce the abortion rate than Planned Parenthood. And they're always there for women, doing more with less while socially conservative politicians attack, attack, attack them - ostensibly because they're "pro-life," but in reality because they're anti-woman…

Brookings is already telling the right wing what they already know. These outcomes are the exact reason invasive and restrictive laws are pushed on women. Desperate people will take any job at any wage. The laws and policies of this country as pushed by the right wing (call me partisan but show me a democrat…

*Squints* I can't tell if you're a troll.

They believe poor women are unworthy of intimacy and have no right to a sex life because how dare they not spend every second of their lives feeling shame at being poor.

That is what is so infuriating about family planning in this country. Republicans are always talking shit about poor women with four kids, but they never advocate for comprehensive sex education and access to birth control. They just want to regulate morality.

This is why as a Catholic I still give an monthly donation to Planned Parenthood here in Oregon. Not one of those protestors will pay bills nor adopt a baby in heir home- NOT ONE. But they have some f**king nerve.

Don't forget how the same people who limit poor women's access to birth control and abortions always go, "It's so irresponsible to have kids when you can't support them financially."

The first semester that I taught, it was at a community college outreach location in a very, very poor area. One of my sections was a night class, and over half of the students were women my age (and younger). They formed the most heart-warming mommy-study/babysitting group and supported each other through the entire…

Poor people are perennially punished in America. Politicians get elected by promising to further dis-empower and disenfranchise them because so many Americans are too denial-filled to recognize that they themselves are one step away from being just as poor. They've been brainwashed to believe that they're somehow…

I guess in their world, the scumbags annihilate themselves before they start popping out kids.

If republicans had their way, abortions and contraceptives would only be for their privileged little daughters who "made a mistake" and their mistresses. Everyone else can get bent especially if your poor/non-white.

When I used to make less than $24k (living in a big city) I used to get my BC for free from Planned Parenthood... But I also remember going to Planned Parenthood in my home city (much smaller) and constant needing to pass right-to-lifers to get inside - and I'm in the Northeast!