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.

Separating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case

Amanda Marcotte

Unable to muster actual compassion for Gosnell’s victims, anti-choicers got right to work seeking ways to exploit his crimes to further reduce access to safe, legal abortion, and to create more Gosnells in the future.

Judith cheats on Brice and, in the end, she is thoroughly punished by having to go to her ex-husband’s pharmacy—limping and uglified—to pick up her HIV medications to treat the infection she got from cheating.

Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

Amanda Marcotte

It’s such a disappointment to hear that Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor apparently presents HIV not only as if it’s some kind of karmic punishment for female sexual misbehavior, but also as if having the virus makes a woman permanently unlovable and asexual.

Anti-Choicers Will Deny How EC Works, Regardless of How Much Evidence You Give Them

Amanda Marcotte

The science is in and has been for awhile: Emergency contraception prevents fertilization. But anti-choicers continue to push quack science asserting the opposite. Why?

What North Dakota and Mississippi Reveal About Anti-Choice NIMBYism and Hypocrisy

Amanda Marcotte

Make no mistake, efforts to ban abortion have nothing to do with fetal life but are simply a symbolic gesture to enshrine fundamentalist piety about sex and gender roles into law, and punish those who don't obey.

How Abortion Restrictions Always Assume That Women Are Bad People

Amanda Marcotte

One part of the strategy of anti-choicers is to demonize women who have abortions portraying them as “fickle, foolish, or lazy.” So it was just a matter of time before the implicit argument of the Arkansas ban would be made explicit by a legislator defending the law.

Anti-Choicers Can’t Stop Saying Stupid Things About Rape

Amanda Marcotte

Anti-choice politicians just can’t stop saying stupid things about rape. The problem, of course, is that the same misogyny that motivates opposition to reproductive rights also causes revolting and backwards attitudes about sexual violence, including the belief that women routinely lie about rape in order to conceal their sexual activity.

Anti-Choicers Get Real About Their Loathing of Female Sexuality

Amanda Marcotte

Time to dispense with the phony concerns for "life." Now anti-choicers are just straight-up admitting they don’t think women should be having sex for any other reason but procreation.

Anti-Choicers Shamelessly Abuse Dead Woman Because She Chose Medically-Indicated Surgery

Amanda Marcotte

A patient at Dr. Carhart’s office in Germantown, MD passed away recently while undergoing a very late term (reported at 33 weeks) abortion. Her loss is devastating no doubt for her doctors as well as her family, but sadly, surgery is a risky undertaking. People die from all sorts of surgery, including minor surgeries like knee surgery.

Iowa Anti-Choicers Admit They Want to Imprison Women for Abortion

Amanda Marcotte

A little over a month into 2013, and one thing is absolutely certain: Anti-choice legislators aren’t going to let the damage that their war on women did to their fellow conservative politicians’ electoral prospects slow them down.

Urban Legends vs. The Pill: How the Christian Right Uses Propaganda Against Reproductive Rights

Amanda Marcotte

Kevin Swanson's bizarre radio comments claiming that women on the pill have "dead babies" lodged inside of them is part of a larger problem of Christian urban legends that get mixed in with reality and used as propaganda against reproductive rights.

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