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Brittany Maynard: Choosing the Way a Life Ends
Oct 18, 2014 There is no way to hear Brittany Maynard's voice without being deeply touched.The Equal Rites Awards
Aug 26, 2013 And so once more we gather on the 93rd anniversary of that historic day when women finally won the right to vote to give out the Equal Rites Awards to those folks who are still doing their best to take us backward.
A Conversation We All Should Have
Jul 15, 2013 Is this what they mean by a death watch? The father of his country, a moral icon to the world, lies in a hospital bed as cameras wait outside and newspaper headlines offer a daily prognosis: "Mandela on Life Support." "South Africans Asked to Pray for Mandela." "Mandela Remains Critical, Responds to Treatment." "It's Time to Let Him Go."Throwing Some Humble Pies
Aug 27, 2012 So, dear friends, we gather again to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of the passage of women's suffrage. We honor our foremothers in our special way by handing out the Equal Rites Awards for those who have done the most to slow down progress.
Forget Roe, Try Griswold
Jan 23, 2012 Sunday marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but the big news this year is the debate over the 1965 decision of Griswold v. Connecticut that made contraception legal.
Equal Rites Awards 2011
Aug 26, 2011 Our one-woman panel prepares in good spirit to hand out the Equal Rites Awards to all those who did their best to do the worst for women in the past year The envelopes please.
This Friend Was a Fighter
Mar 29, 2011 We became friends long after we had known each other as candidate and journalist, long after the grit that Geraldine Ferraro showed facing down press and politicians had been transformed into the grit she showed facing multiple myeloma.