Although this past week wasn’t completely free of questionable-to-awful moves on the women’s rights front, we here at the Roundup are taking a holiday break from bad news. Here’s a festive handful of positive stories that we think you’ll enjoy.

Once again, it has been a pretty bleak week for women’s rights in our country.

It’s been a hell of a week, so let’s get into it.

It’s been an active few days on the abortion front. Let’s dive right in.

Today, we've got some good news out of the states, and important read, and a couple of extras from A Is For.

You have been dreading this all year; coming up with strategies, attack plans, evasive maneuvers. But now you’re cornered. There’s no way out.

Here are five stories from this week in women’s healthcare that we think you should be talking about.

For our very first roundup, this past Tuesday’s election has given us a tremendous amount of hope!

Whether it’s a full-out repeal like Graham-Cassidy or a Grover Norquist-style bathtub murder by way of withholding CSR payments, any harm to the ACA would disproportionately harm women.

We have long enjoyed toothpaste freedom in this country, but most choices, including that one, are limited by other factors: economic situation, regional toothpaste availability.

So I think we’re back to a fight about when life begins and that’s the new push, not the women’s health argument. It’s screw the woman, she’s just a host, let’s go back to life. And those are passing everywhere. I think deliberately pushing this issue of when life begins before the Supreme Court.

Thousands of laws have been passed at the state level, and so many of those laws have been completely pretextural . There’s so much of this that just pretends to be showing great solicitude for women, and is just so deeply violative of women.

Women are having to drive hundreds of miles, and stay in a hotel, and leave their kids at home and they can’t afford it. All the stuff that burden women’s rights.