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Mooney supports culture wars over national security

Monday morning, Rep. Alex Mooney proudly sent out a press release announcing his support for Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s months-long, single-handed blockade of hundreds of military promotions over the military’s policy of reimbursing traveling costs for reproductive care received in another ...

Republicans can’t do anything about the abortion issue

Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” That’s what Donald Trump said  following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. Other Republican candidates have used the same words. The problem for Republicans is not how they talk ...

Discussion must start in shared reality

U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney is well within his rights to defend his vote against the continuing resolution that prevented the government shutdown on Sept. 30. In fact, we appreciate his willingness to engage. However, if we are to have an honest discussion, we must have a shared understanding of ...

Women’s reproductive freedom is moving backward

by Lilian Bui “We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.” That quote from Barbie creator Ruth Handler — or at least the one written for the actress playing her — in the new “Barbie” movie had me reflecting on just how far ...

GOP debate aired a grotesque lie about abortion

Despite the looming shadow of the absent frontrunner, the Republican presidential primary debate did get into enough non-Donald Trump substance to establish that even the putatively mainstream part of the GOP field is still far out of line with mainstream America on major issues. Especially ...

SCOTUS must reject efforts to ban mifepristone

A New Orleans federal appeals court has rejected ideologue Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone, the second part of the two-drug regimen that is frequently used instead of ...