U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday emphasized the role of women who have testified during the hearings, while drawing a stark contrast with the “50, 60 and 70-year men who hide themselves behind executive privilege.”
Only half of VA medical facilities currently provide designated nursing rooms, and those that exist are only for employees — not for veterans or their partners receiving care.
In an exclusive interview with The 19th, Andrea Patiño Contreras, the film’s director, spoke about making the film, the resilience of survivors of military sexual violence.
“If we’re thinking of a fetus as an actual person with rights, then a whole bunch of other stuff has to change,” said Chris Ellis, the co-director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy.
Given the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade, access to birth control is likely to become a major focus for people of childbearing age.
The Pentagon says abortion services will continue as before for the military community. But some lawmakers demand that more is done to protect service members seeking care.
Nondisclosure agreements keep harassment allegations from reaching the public and are used by U.S. corporations to purchase victim silence.
“I started to get frustrated because I felt like I was watching a bad car accident that was about to happen,” the former aide to the White House chief of staff said.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning, 13 states were poised to quickly ban abortion. Louisiana and Utah on Monday became the first to have the bans blocked.
Edwards described being knocked unconscious, then getting back up to help protect the Capitol, as lawmakers presented testimony about the attempts to undermine the valid results of the 2020 election.