Problematic Women

Kristan Hawkins has been preparing for a post-Roe America for 16 years. For her, the Supreme Court decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade was surreal.  Hawkins leads the pro-life organization Students for Life, which seeks to educate young Americans on the issue of abortion.  Waking up Saturday, Hawkins estimated "over 400 children ... would be spared" already that morning because the high court...

Roe v. Wade is history. After nearly 50 years and 63 million lives lost, the Supreme Court has ruled that there’s no constitutional right to abortion. But now, the true work of the pro-life movement is beginning.  It’s now up to the American people and their elected state leaders whether or not they will be a voice for those who have none. Already, 26 states have put laws in place to protect babie...

Roe v. Wade has been overturned. This weekend, Problematic Women is sharing an episode of The Daily Signal Podcast where Virginia Allen interviews Cathy Harris. When she was 17, Cathy Harris had an abortion. After her abortion, Harris says she felt "immediate regret, immediate just grief that fell upon me." "I wasn't really sure what to do with it, where to put it," she recalls. "A lot of people,...

It's been 50 years since the U.S. government acted to ensure equal educational opportunities for girls and women through Title IX.  Since put in place as education amendments in 1972, Title IX has prohibited sex-based discrimination in education programs, including competitive sports.  Title IX states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, b...

On this week's edition of the "Problematic Women" podcast, Gloria Taylor joins us to discuss her experience taking a drug that is sometimes used as a puberty blocker for minors: Lupron. Taylor, a senior communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, started getting injections of Lupron after being diagnosed with breast cancer. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) S...

Roughly 45 million Americans owe a combined total of $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. If that were distributed evenly among the borrowers, each would owe close to $38,000.  Over the past two years, the federal government has paused collection of student loan payments because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, some Americans contend the government should forgive student loan debt outright. But what...

On this week’s "Problematic Women" podcast, we discuss the new documentary from The Daily Wire, “What Is a Woman?” We also review what’s behind the Biden administration’s baby formula shortage, which is still ongoing, and one of our co-hosts' appearance at the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Finally, we’ll break down the Women’s Bill of Rights, a project of the Independent Women...

Up on today’s Problematic Women — Mattel has designed a first transgender Barbie. We tell you what you need to know. Plus, abortion activists think a lot of things are going to happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned, including the claim that women will die. Is it true? Virginia and Lauren bring in a legal expert to address the pro-abortion activists' claims. Watch that segment here. We also explain w...

Up on today’s Problematic Women — We take some time to look back and remember former school shootings, and pause to mourn with the people of Uvalde, Texas. Plus, we bring you a couple of newsworthy viral videos of the week, and discuss how moderates and the center left might be waking up to the harms of gender identity ideology. And as always, we’ll be crowning our Problematic Woman of the Week! E...

Priscilla Hurley was first exposed to abortion while she was still in her mother's womb. She survived an abortion when her mother was four months pregnant. As a young woman, Hurley had two abortions herself before she began working at an abortion clinic.  “[I]n a really twisted way, I was trying to help women,” Hurley says of her time working at the clinic. ' Hurley’s journey to the pro-life movem...

Women who want to appear to be men now can buy “compression tops” at Target to hide their breasts. Starbucks, among other companies, will pay travel costs for employees to have an abortion if they live in a state that restricts the procedure. And Disney says it's outraged that kindergarteners can’t be taught gender ideology in Florida public schools.  Some of America’s biggest businesses increasin...

It’s against the law to intimidate a Supreme Court justice in an effort to persuade him or her to rule a certain way. But that hasn't stopped some abortion activists from marching to the homes of the high court’s conservative justices to demand that Roe v. Wade stand.  Saturday evening, protesters visited the houses of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. On Monday, the pro-abor...

After making it big in the entertainment industry, a young Sam Sorbo was struggling to find purpose.  “I guess I figured out that the game was to make a lot of money,” she recalls. “That's what I was taught growing up. And I made a lot of money and it wasn't enough for me.”  Sorbo’s quest for purpose led her to faith, and a new set of values.  Sorbo, an actress, author, filmmaker, and advocate of...

Nothing is normal about the way the public learned this week that Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned by the Supreme Court, but then again, nothing is normal about taking the life of an unborn child.  Roe v. Wade is the contentious 1973 high court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. In a leaked draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alit...

Feminists this year are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any educational program that’s federally funded, either directly or indirectly. But in an ironic twist, the Biden administration is eroding the landmark legislation by redefining sex to mean “gender identity.” The change, seemingly minor, will have major repercussions, and...

Megan Almon is a voice for those who have no voice. Since 2009, Almon has trained tens of thousands of people, many of them students, how to defend their pro-life views.  Almon is a speaker with Life Training Institute, and approaches the life issue from a scientific, philosophical, and Biblical perspective.  The first question that has to be answered, she says, is “What is the unborn?” That quest...

Being a wife and mother while working full time is a lot. Add homeschooling to the mix? Now you have entered superhero status in our book.  Marguerite Bowling, a senior communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, is actually no superhero, but she and her husband are committed to their children’s education and upbringing. When Bowling realized how woke her local Maryland school district was,...

On his first day in office in January 2021, President Joe Biden ended many of his predecessor's policies to manage illegal immigration at America’s southern border. Biden brought a halt to former President Donald Trump's construction of the border wall, and tens of thousands of migrants began crossing the border illegally. Since October, more than 940,000 migrants have been caught at the border, t...

For over 20 years, Eleanor McCullen has taken time every week to stand outside a Planned Parenthood clinic and offer help to women in crisis pregnancies.    At the age of 85, McCullen says she has been a part of saving the lives of about 300 babies from abortion. But she adds that it’s not about numbers, but helping women and their babies.    The first question she asks women outside a Planned Par...

On this edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast, we break down a new effort to defend the legal rights of women and girls.   A document from the Independent Women’s Network, “The Women’s Bill of Rights,” calls for legally defining basic sex-based terms that activists have manipulated in recent years to alter the common public meaning of the nation’s laws against discrimination.   We also share...

On this week’s edition of the "Problematic Women" podcast, we break down the data behind women winning the biggest wage gains from the U.S. labor boom. We also discuss how, in some cities, women are not only closing the so-called gender pay gap, but now exceeding their male counterparts. Is that a good thing for women—and all of society? Also on today's show, automaker Buick is out with a new ad c...

Last week University of Pennsylvania swimmer “Lia” Thomas, formerly William Thomas, became the first transgender athlete to win the NCAA title in the women's 500-yard freestyle. During the award ceremony, Thomas towered over the biologically female runner-ups, including Virginia's Emma Weyant, a silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics who finished 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.  While the "Problematic...

The stories of mothers and daughters in the Bible hold special significance for Shannon Bream.  “We all have had the seasons of waiting, of longing, of having to be patient, not understanding what God is doing,” Bream, host of “Fox News @ Night,” says.  Reading and studying the stories of the women in the Bible give us “the advantage of looking back over time in history and seeing how [God] was wo...

Why are leftists being so creepy lately? Planned Parenthood has an “ice cream truck” in Texas, but instead of frozen treats, it’s distributing condoms. Meanwhile, Florida lawmakers pass a bill prohibiting teachers from planned instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation to kindergartners through third grades … and liberals are mad about it. And over in New York City, even as most of t...

Abigail Martinez’s daughter Jaely was in high school when she started struggling with transgenderism. Her California school affirmed Jaely’s struggle with her gender ideology and supported her taking steps to transition.  Martinez tried her best to support her daughter, knowing that “changing” genders ultimately would not make her teenager happy. But because Martinez was not completely onboard wit...