Weekly Policy Recap

Amie Newman has an excellent post up about private insurers adverse treatment of women at RHRealityCheck.org.

Abortion and unintended pregnancy rates are declining as access to contraception becomes more available. Who would have thought?

Al Franken makes us proud yet again.

Certain conservative radio shows are pulling out all the stops to discredit independent thinking by republican women Senators Snowe and Collins. Surprise, surprise: they are using outright misogynistic messaging to make their point. Tsk, tsk gentlemen. Not that we were expecting anything different, but heck, it’s Friday. Give us a break already.