Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor & Publisher of The Nation, has signed on to this fundraising e-mail, which arrived in my -email today.

 

Dear Nation Friend:

A few days ago eight of Georgia’s nine women senators summed up how most Americans feel about the GOP’s “War on Women” by throwing up their hands in disgust and walking off the floor of the Senate chambers to protest GOP attempts to block insurance coverage for abortions and contraceptives.

No longer content with using legislation to shut down safe and accessible contraception, the GOP is now in the business of dictating private insurance policies — the next chess move in their efforts to turn this country into a theocracy. Their strategy? Pander to a tiny group of religious extremists intent on imposing their will on the vast majority of Americans.

Will you sit back and submit to the tyranny of this minority? Here at The Nation, we say, hell no! But to continue to expose these threats to women, we need your support. Help us raise $15,000 in the next 7 days to replenish our reporting coffers.

The Nation’s reporters and columnists have been tireless in covering this “War on Women,” documenting the GOP’s doubling down to rollback women’s reproductive rights — determined to take us back to the pre-Roe v. Wade age. Our coverage of this battleground has included well-known feminist writers like Katha Pollitt as well as new voices like Jessica Valenti, Amy Schiller and Bryce Covert. Here is just a sampling of what your support makes possible:

  • $50 covers cab fare and lunch for one of our Washington reporters to attend Congressional hearings on federal funding of women’s health services
  • $75 pays for one day of intern fact-checking of articles and blog posts at TheNation.com
  • $150 covers the cost of a car rental for two multimedia producers to travel to Cape Cod to interview Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail
  • $250 supports a guest-blogger like Jessica Valenti, for a week, monitoring the breaking news in the “War on Women” at TheNation.com

I wish I didn’t have to ask you for money. But this “War” is raging in an already busy and taxing presidential election year, and our resources are stretched thin. With your support, we won’t have to pull punches, scale back, or take our eye off the GOP at any level of government — from the U.S. Supreme Court down to local initiatives.

We know times are tough. The pressure on our budget is enormous, too. But we need you to stand with us. Please help us reach our goal of $15,000 in 7 days and make a gift to The Nation today. Any amount will help. And, just as important, our reporters, writers and columnists will know you have our back.

Sincerely,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor & Publisher, The Nation

P.S. Planned Parenthood’s Susan B. Komen pushback proved what liberals (and a lot of conservative women too) can do when reproductive rights are threatened. Please show your support for our reporting today so we can keep exercising the rights of a free press by standing up to the GOP’s well-funded minority.

 

Grow up, folks. The real “war on women” is being prosecuted by radical pro-abortion feminists, who have no problem ending the lives of millions of unborn girls every year. And that’s progressive? That’s about women’s health? Hogwash. It’s about cruelty, arrogance, and heartlessness.