Tag: abortion

Lizz Winstead On a Woman’s Right To Choose 

Lizz Winstead on a woman’s right to choose. Lizz is one of the founders of Lady Parts Justice. LPJ is the first not safe for work, rapid response reproductive rights messaging hub that uses comedy, culture and digital media to sound an alarm about the terrifying erosion of reproductive access so people will get off their asses and reclaim their rights.
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Lizz Winstead & Frank Conniff

Congressman Alan Grayson, Comic Joe DeVito, Professor Corey Brettschneider and Buckels The Clown. Lizz Winstead created The Daily Show and Air America as well as Lady Parts Justice. Says Lizz, “Lady Parts Justice is the first not safe for work, rapid response reproductive rights messaging hub that uses comedy, culture and digital media to sound an alarm about the terrifying erosion of reproductive access so people will get off their asses and reclaim their rights.”

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Rape Is Like A Car Accident, So Women Should Buy ‘Extra Insurance’ For Abortion

Arguing that Michigan women should be forced to buy separate insurance coverage for abortion services, even in the cases of rape or incest, a prominent anti-choice leader in the state claimed that paying extra money to terminate a pregnancy resulting from rape is the same thing as paying extra money for car insurance . Right to Life of Michigan is currently pushing to prohibit the state’s insurance providers from covering elective abortion services, which would force women to pay additional money to purchase a separate insurance rider to terminate a pregnancy. If the group collects enough signatures, the issue will appear on the 2014 state ballot. This week, when reporters asked Right to Life president Barbara Listing why the proposed insurance ban doesn’t include an exception for rape or incest, she compared those sexual crimes to car accidents and floods. […]

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Sarah Palin has a crush

Sarah Palin, foremost critic of the ‘lamestream media,’ has found an exception in CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There’s something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “I call it integrity and professionalism.” Palin was responding to an  interview  with Tapper on zap2it.com, the television industry news site, in which he discussed his coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the recent Oklahoma tornadoes, among other […]

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