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.

How to Talk to Your Friends About Birth Control: Lessons From the Pro-Vaccination Crowd

Amanda Marcotte

Do you have a friend who wants to be on the pill but is afraid because of unscientific scare-mongering in the media? Here's a guide, cribbed from vaccination advocates, on how to talk to people about the pill without turning them off or making them feel threatened.

As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation

Amanda Marcotte

Texas is shutting down abortion clinics, driving privileged women to travel far for abortion, and forcing lower-income women to endure forced pregnancy. This is where the entire country is headed, if the anti-choice movement prevails in the courts.

The Time Has Come: Free Condoms in Every High School

Amanda Marcotte

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a new set of recommendations encouraging schools, parents, and communities to focus on destigmatizing condoms and making them more available to teenagers. What was once a radical idea is quickly becoming normalized.

No, Obamacare’s Use of the Phrase ‘Unborn Child’ Is Not Hypocrisy

Amanda Marcotte

Anti-choicers are trying to accuse liberals of hypocrisy because the health insurance exchanges let people know "unborn children" are included in coverage. But the only hypocrites here are people who claim to support life but are trying to demonize attempts to get pregnant women health coverage.

Contraception Extremism and the Right-Wing Bubble

Amanda Marcotte

How did the Republicans get themselves into this shutdown mess? Part of the problem is they are remarkably out of touch, and you can look no further than Republican discourse on contraception to see how bad it's gotten in the right-wing bubble.

How Abortion Is Being Used as a Ruse to Attack Health Care Writ Large

Amanda Marcotte

States are banning private citizens from using their own money to buy insurance from private insurers if a plan covers abortion. It's part of a larger strategy by anti-Obamacare forces to insert abortion into the debate as often as possible with the goal of stigmatizing health-care reform and killing the Affordable Care Act.

By Withholding the Medicaid Expansion, Republicans Will Keep the Unintended Pregnancy Rate High

Amanda Marcotte

With the Affordable Care Act, the United States has a good chance of drastically lowering its unintended pregnancy rates. Unfortunately, political posturing from Republicans is stalling the implementation of a key part of the law necessary to achieve that result.

SCOTUS’ Decision on Birth Control Benefit Could Affect All Workers’ Rights

Amanda Marcotte

The ugly reality is that this entire battle over the contraception mandate is about something bigger. It’s about private businesses and corporations creating a legal loophole that allows them to opt out of an array of worker protections and other regulations, all by citing “religious freedom” as a reason.

Conservatives Suspicious of the Concept of Health, But Anti-Choice Extremists Beat Them to It

Amanda Marcotte

It's not an illusion: Conservatives have started to exhibit hostility toward the concept of health itself, implying that being healthy is scary and somehow anti-freedom. This shouldn't be a surprise, however, as anti-choicers have been saying similar things for decades now.

‘Abortion Is Like Slavery’ and Other Offensive Anti-Choice Analogies

Amanda Marcotte

Why do anti-choicers rely so heavily on bad, offensive analogies that compare reproductive rights to slavery, the Holocaust, and drug addiction? In no small part, it's because without these inaccurate and offensive analogies, their actual arguments are exposed as weak and petty.

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