If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice.
Tag: Reproductive Rights
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
Joe Manchin joins Republicans to defeat Women’s Health Protection Act in U.S. Senate
The bill, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, had been expected to get filibustered. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer staged the vote anyway to put Republicans on record as opposed to reproductive rights
Posted inLitigation
Distract and distort: Republicans declare Alito Court the victim after anti-Roe draft leaks
The extreme right wing has moved quickly to distract and distort in the wake of Politico’s publication of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion holding that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was egregiously wrong.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admits that leaked Alito draft is authentic
A draft of a majority opinion overturning the United States Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and leaked to Politico is authentic, Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted in a statement released by the Court.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Draft of opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaks out of the United States Supreme Court
Authored by Samuel Alito, one of George W. Bush’s two Supreme Court appointees, the draft declares that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “the decision has had damaging consequences.”
Posted inPolicy Topics
Senate Republicans filibuster Women’s Health Protection Act with Joe Manchin’s help
Even if the bill had not been subjected to a filibuster and even if all senators had been present, the bill still would have failed due to Joe Manchin’s defection and Susan Collins’ refusal to support it.
Posted inCivil Liberties
Representative Ayanna Pressley joins reproductive rights activists to discuss the necessity of expanding the Supreme Court
Read NPI’s recap of the Netroots Nation 2021 featured panel sponsored by Demand Justice, which brought Renee Bracey Sherman, Katie O’Connor, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Kelsey Ryland, Sonja Spoo to discuss why expanding the Supreme Court is critical for protecting reproductive rights.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Texas Republicans intend for SB 8 to be the template for gutting reproductive healthcare in the United States. It must not stand.
In this Cascadia Advocate guest post, Democratic leader Shasti Conrad breaks down the ramifications of Texas’ discriminatory, freedom-denying Senate Bill 8, which Republicans in other states are already planning to mimic.
Posted inPolicy Topics
A lasting lesson in privacy, persuasion, and social justice: Remembering how abortion became legal in Washington State in 1970
What resonated with voters in this state a half-century ago is a blueprint for bolstering and protecting the right of choice from Washington to Washington, and even regressive places in between.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Divided Supreme Court lets Texas’ horrifying anti-reproductive rights law stand… again
Five extreme right wing justices, including Trump’s three appointees, have sanctioned a new Texas law that sets up a bounty system to punish anyone who tries to exercise reproductive rights for themselves or others.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Attorney General Bob Ferguson steps up to defend access to reproductive health services
A stickler for the rule of law, Washington’s chief law enforcement officer has repeatedly taken on the Trump regime… and won.
Posted inViews & Reviews
SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights
Read NPI’s review of Our Bodies Our Doctors, a film about reproductive rights that’s being screened at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival.
Posted inMedia & Culture, Views & Reviews
Book Review: Bernie Sanders’ “Guide to Political Revolution” aims to be teen resource
Democrats still get into arguments about the merits (or lack thereof) of Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ candidacies for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. It’s why many of us on the left continue, inexorably, viewing contemporary events as a chance to re-litigate that contest and who was right. To say that Bernie Sanders: Guide to […]
Posted inEconomic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics
How would WA Republicans like it if *these* bills needed a two-thirds vote to pass?
Anyone who has spent time attempting to understand the politics of the Washington State Republican Party knows that Republicans spend an awful lot of time listening to (and taking their cues from) militant, right wing initiative profiteer Tim Eyman, who has become obsessed lately with gutting Washington’s cherished tradition of majority rule and replacing it […]