Welcome to Pakistan, kiddies. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

In the end, passing the healthcare bill was about nothing but abortion and abortion-related deals that will make life all that much harder for women of modest resources facing the (constitutionally-protected) decision to terminate a pregnancy.

Written by Rebecca Sive for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The executive order Obama released today effectively rescinds rights the Supreme Court previously extended to over half the people in America. What a cruel and bitter joke identity politics has played upon us all. Today America’s first person of color in the Oval Office robbed a greater part of our neighbors of their rights than any President since the Great White Fathers in their White House made war upon the First Peoples. Hey – at least Obama’s consistent. He’s the finance and insurance sectors’ faithful servant. The Hamilton Project chose their candidate wisely.

Reasons why Gitmo failed

executive orders carry no weight of law, they are nothing but suggestions

The global gag rule has never reduced abortion — rather, it resulted in an attack on the delivery of family planning services that could help reduce abortion. And now President Obama has repealed it.

In reversing a post 9/11 decision to clamp down on the Freedom of Information Act, Obama is asking us all to uncover the truth.

As president, Barack must do ONE thing IMMEDIATELY, his FIRST act as president MUST be to stop torture.