Gender

Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody and Visitation Rights -- 31 -- and Other Shocking Rape Facts

By Soraya Chemaly / Huffington Post

For months now we've been subjected to surreal revelations when it comes to what people think about rape. Here is some real, fact-checked information.

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Meet 8 Romney-Backed Senate Candidates Who Would Force Victims to Have Their Rapists' Babies

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Report: Romney Blocked Birth Certificates for Kids of Gay Families

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Tina Fey Unleashes Her Wrath on Akin and GOP Rape Apologists

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How the GOP's Real Agenda Is Revealed in Their Nasty Rape Comments

By Jill Filipovic / The Guardian

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Gender

Republicans' Shocking Positions on Rape and Pregnancy Aren't Outliers -- They're Central to the GOP Agenda

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Why Won't Romney Rescind His Endorsement from the Vile Richard Mourdock?

Eliot Spitzer / Slate

The Republican Rape Advisory Chart

Bruce Wilson / talk2action.org

Few Politicians Actually Understand What "Health of the Mother” Really Means

Suzanne Edwards / Salon.com

Not Just Mourdock -- Meet 7 Other Republicans Trying to Block Abortion for Rape Victims

Igor Volsky / Think Progress

Why Right-Wingers Can't Stop Saying Insane Things About Women and Rape

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Pakistani Assemblywoman: Girls’ Education Key to Ending Terrorism

Viji Sundaram / New America Media

Top 6 Lies Romney Has Told Women in an Election Season Full of Whoppers

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Romney's Senate Candidate: Pregnancy by Rape is God's Will

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Corporations Cashing in Big Time on Breast Cancer -- 5 Shocking Hypocrisies

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

Oral Sex, Yoga, and God's Eternal Wrath: Inside the New Hipster Megachurch That Tells Modern Women to Submit

Alison Sargent / Bitch Magazine

Why Are There So Few Female Plutocrats?

Chrystia Freeland / The Penguin Press

The War On 12-Year-Old Girls

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Is Romney's Outdated View of Family a Threat to Modern Society?

Nicole Rodgers / Role Reboot

Right-Winger's Weird Proposal to Ban the Sale of Food That Contains Aborted Fetuses Trips on Ancient History

Tina Dupuy / The Skeptic

7 Brilliant and Funny Ways Critics Panned Romney's 'Binders Full of Women' Gaffe

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

14-Year Old Girl Faces Life In Prison for Killing Her Baby: Is She a Victim Of Florida's Insane Abstinence Education?

Claire Glass / xojane

Jon Stewart's Peek Inside Romney's Binder Full of Women

AlterNet Staff / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Barely Mentioned In the Debates: Abortion Rights

Tracy Weitz / AlterNet

Mitt Romney's Heartless Advice to a Woman Whose Pregnancy Might Have Killed Her

Geoffrey Dunn / Metroactive

Romney's "Binder Full of Women Story" May Be Funny; It's Also Not True

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Skinny Minnie? Our Culture's Bizarre Obsession With Stick-Thin Women

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Female Tea Party Leader Says Women Are Too 'Diabolical' to Vote

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Do Flirty Women Finish First?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Libertines v. Libertarians: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Rejection of Sexual Restraints

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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