Connecticut is the first state to boycott Indiana, after that state’s new, discriminatory “Religious Freedom” law, which is uniquely bad. Why “uniquely?” From that ThinkProgress piece: Under that section, a “person” (which under the law includes not only an individual but also any organization, partnership, LLC, corporation, company, firm, church, religious society, or other entity) …
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The death of Obamacare? I didn’t even know it was sick.
Arguments are ongoing at the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, the third Obamacare (Affordable Care Act to precise historians) case to reach that august body. Add to that some 56 attempts to repeal the thing by elected officials who oughta know better. And because they don’t, I will helpfully post this. A tinge more …
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If we want to reduce the number of abortions…
…why don’t we focus on reproductive health worldwide, asks Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY. Rep. Maloney writes: Inexplicably, as the rest of the world makes great efforts to provide family planning and reproductive health care for women everywhere, some in the U.S. Congress are seeking to go backwards. U.S. government support for international family planning programs …
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