Latinos Demand Real Action, Not ‘Hispandering,’ in Exchange for Votes
by Juliana Schwartz
A Movement, Not a Moment: How Even Anti-Choice Victories Show We’re Making Progress
by Ilyse Hogue
White Women: Let’s Get Our Shit Together
by Andrea Grimes
The Senate Flip Could Have Serious Implications for Women of Color
by Zerlina Maxwell
White Women: Let's Get Our Shit Together by Andrea Grimes
A Movement, Not a Moment: How Even Anti-Choice Victories Show We're Making Progress by Ilyse Hogue
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
Tennessee Voters Approve Measure to Allow Restrictions on Abortion by Teddy Wilson
The Senate Flip Could Have Serious Implications for Women of Color by Zerlina Maxwell
Stigma Makes People Reluctant to Tell Loved Ones About Their Abortions, Says Study by Renee Bracey Sherman
North Dakota Set To Be First State to Pass Radical 'Personhood' Amendment by Teddy Wilson
Wendy Davis and Texas Democrats Roundly Defeated by Teddy Wilson
Colorado's 'Personhood' Amendment Defeated by Wide Margin by Jason Salzman
Why 'Personhood' Lost, But an Anti-Abortion Tennessee Initiative Won by Amanda Marcotte
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
White Women: Let's Get Our Shit Together by Andrea Grimes
North Dakota Set To Be First State to Pass Radical 'Personhood' Amendment by Teddy Wilson
Adoption Is Not a Universal Alternative to Abortion, No Matter What Anti-Choicers Say by Randie Bencanann
Personhood Amendments Would Hurt Families Who Want Children by Keiko Zoll
As Voters Consider Abortion Rights Crackdown, Two North Dakota Women Speak Out by Teddy Wilson
Conservatives Can't Decide How to Feel About Street Harassment by Amanda Marcotte
Actually, Young People Are Leading the Abortion Access Movement Forward by Erin Matson
Nine Spine-Chilling Reasons to Vote in These Midterms by Imani Gandy
Supreme Court Turns Away Two Reproductive Rights Challenges by Jessica Mason Pieklo
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
Conservatives Can't Decide How to Feel About Street Harassment by Amanda Marcotte
Actually, Young People Are Leading the Abortion Access Movement Forward by Erin Matson
Federal Judge Rules Obama Administration Didn't Go Far Enough to Accommodate Opponents of Birth Control Benefit by Jessica Mason Pieklo
Gardner Pushed for $110 Million in Abstinence-Only Education Funding by Jason Salzman
Nine Spine-Chilling Reasons to Vote in These Midterms by Imani Gandy
White Women: Let's Get Our Shit Together by Andrea Grimes
Sexism in STEM Starts Early—So We Must Combat It Early Too by Lizzie Fierro
Abortion Rights Advocates Launch 'Circus Disco' Counter-Protest in New York by Nina Liss-Schultz
A Colorado Catholic Speaks Out Against Amendment 67 by Jordan Sauers
Funny Campaign Videos
After a stressful midterm election, we all need a little comic relief in our lives. How about a quick reflection on the campaign ads that made us chuckle?
Rachel Maddow Explains the Truth About the IUD
With the help of Dr. Stephanie Teal of the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Rachel Maddow discusses the truth about the intrauterine device (IUD). As Maddow explains, and despite what anti-choicers believe, the IUD is not an “ongoing abortion” in the body. [via MSNBC]
‘Voting While Trans’ Campaign: Protect Your Right to Vote
The National Center for Transgender Equality’s “Voting While Trans” campaign prepares transgender voters to update their identification, check their voter registration, and secure their ballot in the upcoming elections.
Anti-Choice Ballot Initiatives, and Attacks on ‘Single Ladies’ Voters
by Amanda MarcottePodcast (reality-cast-podcast): Download | Embed
On this episode of Reality Cast, I speak to an activist fighting against a “personhood” amendment on Tuesday’s ballots in North Dakota. In another segment, I discuss how Fox News has been really down on single women voters, and Colorado is facing the third iteration of a “personhood” ballot initiative.
RJ Court Watch: The Fight for Voting Rights and Abortion Access in Texas
by Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani GandyPodcast (rj-court-watch-podcast): Download | Embed
In the opening month of its term, the Supreme Court issued emergency orders on voting rights and abortion access in Texas. RH Reality Check‘s Andrea Grimes joins us to discuss the overlap right now in the fight for reproductive and voting rights in the wake of these two big Supreme Court orders.
The Misogyny of GamerGate, and Outrage Over Abortion Education
by Amanda MarcottePodcast (reality-cast-podcast): Download | Embed
On this episode of Reality Cast, I chat with social researcher Jennifer Allaway, author of “#GamerGate Trolls Aren’t Ethics Crusaders; They’re a Hate Group.” Also, Fox News is really irate that a university might teach abortion instead of just leaving it up to people to figure it out for themselves through trial and error.
![While the country watched voters in state after state elect Republicans on Tuesday, voters in many of those states also approved increases to the minimum wage that the newly-elected senators or governors vehemently opposed as harmful to businesses' bottom line.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/shutterstock_215115394-100x67.jpg)
After Midterm Defeats, Obama Stands Firm on Immigration Executive Order ‘Before the End of the Year’
!["What I'm not going to do is just wait" on immigration reform, Obama said in his first press conference after a devastating midterm election night for Democrats.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/shutterstock_182561762-100x67.jpg)
![Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper narrowly defeated anti-choice Republican Bob Beauprez, who stated during the gubernatorial race that he has a “big problem” with IUDs.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/John-Hickenlooper-100x67.jpg)
![Kansas re-elected both Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, despite predictions that both could lose in a backlash against the state’s extreme conservative and anti-choice policies.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/brownback-and-roberts-100x67.jpg)
![Texas voters handed state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) and her fellow Democrats a crushing defeat Tuesday. In one of the most high-profile gubernatorial campaigns in the country, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) was elected to succeed Gov. Rick Perry (R).](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/texas-state-capitol-100x67.jpg)
![In 2006, Rounds signed into law one of the most sweeping anti-choice laws in the country, which banned all abortions unless a pregnant woman’s life was in jeopardy.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Mike-Rounds-100x67.jpg)
![Voters in Colorado rejected a "personhood" ballot measure seeking to protect “pregnant women and their children” by defining “person” in Colorado's criminal code to include “unborn human beings.”](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/shutterstock_162788363-100x67.jpg)
![pregnancy test](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/shutterstock_103922066-100x67.jpg)
![Thom Tillis](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/14657210995_015b272608_o-100x67.jpg)
![rick scott](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/scott-100x67.jpg)
![jeanne shaheen](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Jeanne_Shaheen_2008_NH-100x67.jpg)
![Sen. McConnell delivering his victory speech after the 2014 midterm election in Kansas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mitch-mcconnell-100x67.png)
![More tweets on the "weekend of resistance" in Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rams_ferguson1-100x67.png)
- Obama's Unpopularity Affected Democrats in Midterm Elections - U.S. News & World Report
- Illinois Voters Support Contraceptive Coverage - NBC Chicago
- Religious Leaders Unite in Tennessee and Colorado to Oppose Extreme Anti ... - Ms. Magazine
- First take: Election means Gridlock 2.0 - USA TODAY
- The Evaporating Democratic Majority - New York Times (blog)
- Drinking while pregnant is not a crime, and never should be - The Independent
- Abortion opponents have lost 5 out of 5 personhood votes - Vox
![The same culture that allows men to catcall, without restriction, on the street, allows men to stalk and invade the personal space of women and threaten us without penalty.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Hollaback-video-100x67.jpg)
![Tennessee flag](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TNflag1-100x67.jpg)
![Thanks to stigma, a new study shows, people who have had abortions often hesitate to tell more than one or two trusted family members, partners, or friends about the experience. This, in turn, can lead to individual isolation and restrictive government policies.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/two-female-friends-talking-100x67.jpg)
![Some conservatives want to defend street harassers as a way to get digs in at feminists. But they might be running up against more traditional conservatives who think it's gross behavior to protect women from.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Street-Harassment-100x67.jpg)
![Amendment 67 flies in the face of all my Catholic values. By banning birth control, abortion, and in vitro fertilization, this dangerous measure would prevent women from following their consciences when making critical moral decisions.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_177961163-100x67.jpg)
![The amendments in Colorado and North Dakota giving legal rights to fetuses would leave people seeking in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the dust.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_151909376-100x67.jpg)
![Amendment 1's proponents claim that it "neutralizes" the law on abortion; in reality, the measure would rob pregnant women of the full protections of Tennessee's constitution.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_169649519-100x67.jpg)
![Anti-choice protesters are irate that San Antonio officials won't let them disgust people with bloody footage on a Jumbotron outside the Alamo. It's time to ask why anti-choicers keep trying these gross-out techniques when they have no reason to think they'll ever change people's minds.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_136029650-100x67.jpg)
![I had been in jail for two and a half months when I learned that my breast cancer would necessitate a mastectomy. And I would have to do it alone: no pink pillows, no encouraging cards, no special foods. No comfort, period.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106223259im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_208296553-100x67.jpg)