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Responding to Broun’s deep concern for the well-being of black babies (a concern that apparently ends when those black babies grow up to need breast exams or cervical screenings) Wisconsin Democrat Gwen Moore said, “I know a lot about having black babies. I’ve had three of them. And I had my first one … at […]

The House may have voted to strip Planned Parenthood of funding, but the personal stories from Gwen Moore and Jackie Speier about an unplanned pregnancy and an abortion inspired women everywhere. The two congresswomen tell Michelle Goldberg why they decided to speak out.

In the end, Reps. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Jackie Speier (D-CA) probably didn’t sway any votes by sharing their personal stories on the House floor on Thursday night. On Friday, 240 of 241 House Republicans voted to strip Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of reproductive health care, of government funding.

We proudly claim Russ Feingold(the only Senator to vote against the PATRIOT Act), Tammy Baldwin(the first openly gay person elected to Congress), Gwen Moore(the state’s first African-American Representative), Gaylord Nelson(father of Earth Day), and Robert LaFollette (father of modern US progressivism in general). >Read More<

WASHINGTON — Among the thousands of demonstrators who jammed the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds this weekend was a well-financed advocate from Washington who was there to voice praise for cutting state spending by slashing union benefits and bargaining rights.

The visitor, Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, told a large group of counterprotesters who had gathered Saturday at one edge of what otherwise was a mostly union crowd that the cuts were not only necessary, but they also represented the start of a much-needed nationwide move to slash public-sector union benefits.

“We are going to bring fiscal sanity back to this great nation,” he said.

Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore’s impassioned defense of choice and Planned Parenthood and the plight of the impoverished in America in the face of Republican budget attacks on American’s struggling to get by, meanwhile continuing to give tax breaks to Wall Street billionaires who caused the great recession, is our video of the week. Republicans in

The winner of several elections, Walker stumbled in his first race in 1990 for state Assembly. The victor was Milwaukee Democrat Gwen Moore, who is now in Congress. There remains no love lost between them. Moore, in an interview, called him a proud, vain “union buster.” >Read More<

It is her second career. From 1993, she worked “in this building as a legislative aide,” for state Reps. Mark Meyer and Gwen Moore. >Read More<

Speier wasn’t the only congresswoman to speak out to counter inflammatory rhetoric with personal experience. Paul Broun, a physician and Republican from Georgia, and Gwen Moore, a Democrat from Wisconsin, also shared a heated exchange. >Read More<

Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., spoke about the hardship, humiliation and contempt endured by low-income mothers. She might have been speaking for all women across time — especially of their need for affordable family planning services. >Read More<

And Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin went as far as implying that it is better to have an abortion than make a child be forced to live “eating Ramen noodles” and “mayonnaise sandwiches.” >Read More<