Author: KJ McElrath

It’s often said that if men could get pregnant, abortion would not even be an issue. Why? Because politicians (especially those of the GOP) would state that it is 100% the man’s decision to do as he wishes with his own body. Republican Senator James Lankford goes one step further. He says it’s his right to decide what is done with a woman’s body. Women are the ones who must deal with the consequences of a pregnancy, planned or unplanned. The decision to end a pregnancy is almost always painful, and not one that a woman makes lightly. Well,...

If you need any reminder of why allowing toxic industries to police themselves in the name of “smaller government”, and think deregulation is a bad idea, take a look at the report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released only a few weeks ago. According to the Office of Infrastructure Security Compliance Division, companies involved in the production of dangerous chemicals have been submitting false and misleading reports regarding the risks of toxic release and how wide an area would be affected (known as the “Distance of Concern”). According to the GAO report, 44% of these companies understated these...

A resident of Maine whose ex-wife struggled with mental illness and drug addiction published a heartfelt obituary on her behalf where he states that one of the causes of her overdose was GOP Governor Paul Le Page’s rejecting the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion program, and removal of low-income adults from MaineCare. Although Brent Singer’s marriage to Coleen Clark was short-lived, the two of them remained close. She even kept Singer’s name. And, when the 32-year-old woman who enjoyed travel, flowers and sweetened ice coffee died last December, Brent wrote an obituary that let it be known in no uncertain terms...