The victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado this weekend had not even been buried yet, but that didn't stop the Washington Post from publishing a load of tripe downplaying abortion violence and failing to connect it to anti-choicers' continuous demonization of the organization.
At a recent campaign stop in Iowa, Chris Christie preemptively announced that he would not be meeting with Black Lives Matter activists, so they shouldn’t even bother to ask. To which I say, HA!
In an interview so bizarre and convoluted that even David Lynch would struggle to make sense of it, Ben Carson told Chuck Todd that women who have abortions are like slaveowners who “thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave.”
It’s important that we advocates respond to the false claim about "paying for other people’s abortions" thoughtfully, so that we don’t further normalize the idea that the government should be able to discriminate against poor women in the delivery of health-care services.
It shouldn’t matter how much of Planned Parenthood’s services are abortion services, really. It only matters to anti-choicers because they don’t like abortion.
The parallels between the white moderates whom Dr. Martin Luther King criticized in 1963 and certain white progressives whom many Black activists are criticizing in 2015 couldn't be clearer.
The last few weeks have exposed some real ugliness in the progressive movement, ugliness that has been simmering just below the surface for a long time, but which, due to Black women’s increasing recognition of our political power coupled with leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter movement and unapologetic commitment to dismantling white supremacy, has erupted into a fountain of White Progressive™ racism.
Guest blogger Andrea Grimes GIF-splains efforts by the so-called Center for Medical Progress to goad Planned Parenthood into not doing any of the not-illegal things it has not-illegally not-done.
