A couple dozen high schools in the city of Philadelphia are finally getting around to doing what every single secondary school in the country ought to have done decades ago, providing free and anonymous access to condoms. It’s all part of a pilot project to address high rates of HIV infection:

With all the attention being paid to the Republican-dominated Michigan legislature trying to destroy labor unions with their “right to work” law, it may slip under the radar that the Senate just passed one of the nation’s harshest anti-choice laws:

My friend Robin Marty has an article at Reproductive Health Reality Check that will leave your jaw agape at the sheer audacity of it all. A dry cleaning company in Cincinnati is using hangers that say “Choose Life” on them, in support of their anti-choice beliefs.

The wingnuts who run the Michigan legislature, where Republicans control both chambers by large margins (and the governor’s mansion too), have come up with an innovative new strategy to combine their two obsessions: embryos and tax cuts.

One of the dumbest arguments offered by the “pro-life” crowd is the claim that because more black women have abortions than white women, it’s all a big racist scheme to kill black babies. It’s becoming more and more common in wingnut circles, often accompanied by ridiculous rhetoric like this: