Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte writes for and manages the blog Pandagon, blogs for Slate’s Double X, and has two books out: “It’s A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments” and “Get Opinionated: A Progressive’s Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)”. She’s written about politics, pop culture and feminism for outlets such as Slate, Salon, the LA Times, the Guardian, Bitch, and the American Prospect. A former resident of Texas, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Marco Rubio Makes It Clear How the Planned Parenthood Accusations Are an Outright Conspiracy Theory

Amanda Marcotte

Marco Rubio came out and said that Planned Parenthood is trying to push unsuspecting women into abortion to profit off them. At this point, it's clear that we're dealing with a full-fledged conspiracy theory.

Polling About Abortion Is Rarely About Abortion

Amanda Marcotte

CNN's latest poll has the same problem as so many before it: It's not measuring attitudes about abortion so much as attitudes about female autonomy. By not being more exacting, the poll may do more to confuse than illuminate.

Anti-Choicers Are Trying to Convince Us That Reproductive Care Isn’t a Legitimate Need—and the Media Is Helping

Amanda Marcotte

Two of the major anti-Planned Parenthood talking points, which anti-choicers have disseminated through mainstream media, are about advancing the idea that any sexual health services that aren't about making babies doesn't count as real health care.

Memo to Pope Francis: Women Who Have ‘Resorted’ to Abortion Don’t Need Forgiveness

Amanda Marcotte

The Pope has made it easier for women to get forgiveness for abortions. But it's he who should be asking forgiveness, for implying that women who get abortions don't know what they are doing or why.

The 14th Amendment Says You’re A Citizen When You’re Born, So No Wonder Conservatives Hate It

Amanda Marcotte

Many Republicans have been attacking, undermining, or radically reinterpreting the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equality under the law. There's a lot of reasons for this, but the common theme is undermining women's right to control when and how they give birth.

‘Female Viagra’ Sounds Promising, But Might Not Be All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Amanda Marcotte

A new drug promising to help women restore lost libido has been approved by the FDA. But is it just a bill of goods? And does the marketing of this actually hurt the cause of women's sexual freedom?

How Are Women Still Being Treated Like Second-Class Workers?

Amanda Marcotte

It's the 21st century, but we're still having this fight: An NYPD police officer gets denied a promotion opportunity because she gave birth on the wrong day. But there's hope that if we keep fighting, it will get better.

Huckabee Open to the Idea of Using Federal Troops to Stop Legal Abortion

Amanda Marcotte

Huckabee's recent comments about abortion invoked the image of forcing women to give birth at gunpoint. But while other conservatives won't actually bring up the idea of violent force, their goal—forced childbirth—is exactly the same.

Planned Parenthood and the Politics of Conservative Resentment

Amanda Marcotte

Despite all the hand-waving about fetal tissue, the multi-week attack on Planned Parenthood is really just about stoking conservative resentment and trying to keep young and low-income women from accessing reproductive health care.

‘True Detective’ Peddles the Myth That Abortion Causes Infertility

Amanda Marcotte

True Detective's second season has rolled out a character who thinks she's infertile because of abortions in her youth. Sadly, this is just part of a larger pattern of this supposedly mainstream show regurgitating ugly right-wing myths about women.

Amanda Marcotte

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