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The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit So much for cutting costs.

The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

‘I won’t regret this’: young women turn to sterilization as Trump intensifies war on reproductive rights Women under 30 are sharing information about permanent contraception – including lists of doctors who won’t give them a hard time about getting the procedure

Some presidents make you consider sell your stocks. Others make you decide to stock up on toilet paper. But how many elections lead women to choose sterilization? Wild times.

I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.

We are deeply concerned about the current state of our country. As civil servants, we are doing everything in our power to resist, even if it costs us our jobs. We are proud to be Americans, but what is happening right now does not reflect the values we, as Americans, stand for!

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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Same.

Couldn’t even wait until midnight to strip us of our “freedom” of speech. Taken at 11:14 est.

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They do this because they are very, very evil. There is no other reason. There is no excuse. It's only because they are evil. Please put that in the newspaper as well. We must be clear on the *why* as much as we are the *what*.