Emily Crockett Posts

How stupid do Brett Kavanaugh’s defenders think we are?

Trump’s extremist Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, referred to birth control as “abortion-inducing drugs."

Trump’s escalating trade war has plenty of unlikely victims. But the latest target of the Trump administration’s wrath might be the most baffling.

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court could be an unthinkable blow to civil rights and social progress in America

“These parents know they’re breaking the law.”

The U.S. House voted Wednesday to create a select committee to investigate abortion practices and fetal tissue donation, a move that Democrats say is a politically motivated attack on Planned Parenthood.

U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) on Friday tweeted comments accusing a Black anti-rape activist, along with other feminists and journalists who write about women’s health, of promoting a “racist” agenda by accepting awards from Planned Parenthood.

The Department of Defense’s long-awaited report to President Obama on military sexual assault doesn’t show nearly enough progress in dealing with the problem, advocates for survivors say.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would save millions in spending on public assistance programs, according to a report released Thursday.

Senate Republicans once again blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act from advancing on Monday, after having allowed it to move forward last week.

On Monday morning, the Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) announced that it will suspend water shutoffs for 15 days in order to allow struggling residents more time to make arrangements to pay their bill. A DWSD spokesperson said the move was unrelated to protests by at least a thousand people.

Low-wage women workers have been speaking out in recent months about how they are disproportionately affected by too-low minimum wages. The same disproportionate impact holds true for tipped workers—and a new report details how tipped workers experience unique challenges due to their separate “subminimum wage.”

The White House Council of Economic Advisers has released a new report finding that the failure of 24 states to expand Medicaid has serious consequences for their uninsured residents.

After Google removed deceptive ads from anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) that have been known to deceive women into thinking they’re abortion clinics, the pro-choice groups UltraViolet and NARAL Pro-Choice America successfully petitioned Yahoo to do the same.

Two veterans advocacy groups filed a lawsuit last week alleging that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is discriminating against survivors of military sexual assault when it decides whether to grant disability claims.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill Tuesday that will allow criminal charges against women who struggle with drug dependency during their pregnancy.

A South Carolina bill that passed a senate committee on Thursday would expand the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law to include fetuses.

After Planned Parenthood Health Systems released a poll finding that a majority of South Carolina voters oppose 20-week abortion bans once they understand the real-world reasons for seeking later abortion, state Sen. Mike Fair (R-Greenville) dismissed the poll’s findings and compared Planned Parenthood to Hitler.

As Mississippi state legislators introduced several extreme anti-choice bills last week, Gov. Phil Bryant (R) declared that his goal is to “end abortion” in the state. In his “state of the state” speech, Bryant said, “On this unfortunate anniversary of Roe v. Wade, my goal is to end abortion in Mississippi.”

Kentucky state Rep. Joe Fischer (R-Fort Thomas) has added an amendment banning abortions at 20 weeks to a domestic violence bill, saying that “the most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children.”