Conservatives in states across the nation have been pushing laws in the belief that women will change their minds about having an abortion. But do these laws actually work?

The people of Mississippi just can’t seem to convince Personhood USA to take no for an answer.

Greig contradicted her own condemnation of Akin’s comments by clearly claiming that rape pregnancies are rare because of the violence of the act, even though studies, surveys, and statistics prove that rape causes pregnancy just as much as or more than consensual sex.

Al Qaeda’s values are precisely inline with those of the extreme right. The only real difference is that they don’t brag about their main prophet showing up in bird poop.

The South Dakota GOP seems to think that women are incapable of thinking on weekends and holidays because, you know, they’re stupid or something…

Women in the state of Arkansas are now one step closer to totally losing their reproductive rights.

In what would be an epic victory for women across the country, the House is preparing to bring the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act to the floor for a full vote.

The reason the Republican Party lost the 2012 presidential election has nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with their divisive strategies.

Arkansas Republicans seem to be more focused on eliminating a woman’s right to choose than they are on anything else.

In the mind of the GOP, nothing says ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ like dehumanizing women and attacking their reproductive rights.

The general assembly of Alabama has passed a bill allowing religious employers to deny their female employees contraception.

SB 2303 serves as a ‘personhood’ bill that declares that a fertilized egg is a human being, and would shut down the only women’s health clinic in their state.

Texas wants women to have babies so much that lawmakers are willing to spend part of the state’s very limited budget to reward companies that deny insured reproductive healthcare to women.

The end of the ban will herald a new era for the members of every branch of the military.

More independents are trending Democratic than Republican in the past couple of years.

Democrats offer up a few helpful thints as the GOP heads off to a team-building golf retreat.

Texas Planned Parenthood was defunded on January 1st, because the state refused the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

Even after taking heavy losses in the 2012 Election, including a clear rejection by women voters, Republicans still refused to protect women and children.

Even though 2012 may seem like a losing year for women in terms of legislation, it turns out that many of these laws are being successfully challenged in the courts.

It’s very likely that the gender gap in deciding whose deaths were notable in 2012 is because of gender gap in the media in general.