In a 5-4 decision, a split U.S. Supreme Court issued a split verdict on the Affordable Care Act (known, mostly derisively, as “Obamacare”). The court upheld mandatory fines coercing people… Read more »
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40 years after Roe v. Wade, women of color still lead in the fight for reproductive justice
Jan. 22, 2013, marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in 1973. The court based its ruling on the idea that for… Read more »
Social Security: high stakes for women
Conservatives howl that Social Security is bankrupting the country. And in his State of the Union Address, President Obama called for “reforms,” code for cuts. But as wages and benefits… Read more »
Dying for universal healthcare
Every year in the United States, 45,000 people die from one eminently treatable condition — healthcare coverage that’s nonexistent or inadequate. That’s more than die from automobile accidents or breast… Read more »
ACLU sues Catholic bishops over policy denying reproductive care
Catholic Church dogma on abortion endangers the lives and health of women. That’s the basis of a bold lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Letters to the Editor, April 2014
GREAT REVIEW Antidote to immigrant bashing Thank you for reviewing NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names [Vol. 35, No. 1]. I might not have come across this novel and I… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Will Mississippi’s last clinic be shut down?
Fetus fetishists are one step closer to shutting down the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. For decades, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and a slew of community supporters, has fought… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Ebola: fruit of poverty and racism
On Sept. 16, President Obama finally announced increased, but still woefully inadequate, aid to West Africa to fight the devastating Ebola epidemic. It came only after the president of Liberia… Read more »
Labor Weather Report — A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle
November 2014 — Locked out and ticked off. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, as chair of the G20 Summit, takes the unprecedented step of excluding labor from the proceedings attended… Read more »
Witches, midwives, & reproductive freedom
Are you a good witch, or a bad one? Historically speaking, this was a trick question, with no hope of a Halloween treat. During the time of the European witch… Read more »
