Montana GOP Senate candidate says women have been ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion
In newly unearthed audio from last year, Tim Sheehy said abortion is “all” young women “want to talk about.” Read more at NBC News
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New report shows more than 200 pregnant people have faced criminal charges since Dobbs decision
The majority of cases did not require prosecutors to find evidence that the fetus was harmed Read more at Salon
Trump and Ohio GOP senate candidate Moreno – women are crazy and need to be protected, so that they stop thinking about abortion
Trump, contending with unpopular GOP abortion bans, turns focus to women Hours before the North Carolina rally, shortly after midnight, Trump had written on his social media site Truth Social in an 181-word, all-caps post that women are less healthy, less safe, and more depressed and unhappy than they were when he was president. He … Read more
Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care
In a 2021 thread on X, Vance called universal childcare a “a massive subsidy to the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class”. Vance characterized universal day care as “class warfare against normal people”. He also claimed in a 2021 podcast interview that professional women “choose a path … Read more
Trump wants men to believe he’s a “fun” misogynist — but JD Vance gives up the game
The choice of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate underscores how impossible it is to strike the balance Trump wants. Vance was clearly picked as a play for the bro vote. He may be awkward in most ways, but Vance channels both the male entitlement and unvarnished loathing of women that defines … Read more
JD Vance endorsed anti-IVF report that contradicts Trump’s new stance
A rightwing thinktank report proposing sweeping restrictions to abortions and fertility treatments was endorsed by JD Vance years before he became a fervent backer of Donald Trump and – eventually – his vice-presidential running mate known for his derisive views on childless women. In 2017, months into Trump’s presidency, Vance wrote the foreword to the … Read more
Corey Lewandowski Repeats Trump’s Ugly Lie That Democratic Moms Support Killing Babies
Corey Lewandowski is back advising Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, and he’s spreading his boss’ vicious, ugly lie that Vice President Kamala Harris and moms in blue states support killing babies. It is absolutely false that Democrats are in favor of infanticide. It’s just another vicious lie to demonize women who support reproductive autonomy by a … Read more
‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were “suppressed” in their masculinity. Read more at The Guardian
“Simply put, they are out of their minds”: Kamala Harris won’t let Republicans hide their misogyny
As much as Sen. Mike Lee may deny Republicans are coming after birth control, the pattern is clear. Democrats offer Republicans one chance after another to vote for birth control rights, and every time, Republicans vote against it. Increasingly, major MAGA leaders are admitting out loud that they are coming for birth control. Read more … Read more
Will women voters care about Trump’s conviction?
“It now matters in a much more policy-focused way how Donald Trump thinks about women — that he doesn’t respect them, would sell them out, wouldn’t do anything to defend their rights — sort of matters in a different way now, because abortion is such an important issue going into this election. They’re talking in … Read more