Sharona Coutts
Rewire News Group
New York, NY, United States
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Action Hero and Trump Supporter Steven Seagal Was Accused of Sexual Assault in 2010
As is too often the case with allegations levied against powerful figures, media outlets covered the case as a salacious gossip story. → Read More
New Analysis Shows Supporters of Family Research Council Embrace White Supremacy and Neo-Nazism
A social media network analysis performed by Rewire shows the Family Research Council's messages are resonating with other factions of the far right that explicitly endorse and advocate white supremacist views. → Read More
Hate Groups Attack Southern Poverty Law Center, and Some Journalists Pile On
Far-right groups attacking the SPLC claim that the group has lost its credibility because it has targeted groups such as the Family Research Council and others on the far right. → Read More
How Hate Goes 'Mainstream': Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys
McInnes' beliefs—already being echoed in President Donald Trump’s White House—are about to be elevated to what the Proud Boys founder says is an even greater platform. And that is cause for great concern. → Read More
Remember Tom Price's Controversial Stock Deal? The Stock Is Plummeting
Price, now HHS secretary, has a track record of attempting to intervene in regulatory processes that could affect companies in which he holds stock. → Read More
Democrats: Investigate HHS for Pushing Anti-Obamacare 'Propaganda'
“We are especially concerned by these actions because they appear to continue a pattern of behavior by the Department of using federal resources to advance partisan legislation,” four congressional Democrats wrote in a letter. → Read More
West Virginia Reporter Arrested for Asking Questions of Trump Administration Member
A reporter for Public News Service was arrested while asking the head of Health and Human Services if domestic violence would be a pre-existing condition in the GOP's health-care plan. → Read More
Group Behind Planned Parenthood Attack Videos Raised $450,000 in 2015, But Donors Still Shadowy
The Center for Medical Progress fought all the way to the Supreme Court in late 2015 to try to avoid handing over information containing the identity of “supporters." → Read More
Trump Administration at Odds With Scientists and Advocates
In particular, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is connected to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an extreme libertarian doctors group that espouses many of the lies about abortion safety long rejected by the medical and scientific communities. → Read More
Massachusetts Attorney General: Anti-Choice Groups Can't Spy on 'Abortion-Minded Women'
A Boston-based firm dispatched advertisements for anti-choice groups to women’s smartphones while they were sitting in Planned Parenthood clinics, using a technology known as “mobile geo-fencing.” → Read More
HHS Secretary Sells Off Controversial Stock Amid Questions Over His Ethical Judgment
Price may hope the divestitures will bring an end to the questions over his judgment when it came to investing in companies whose futures he could help determine. Yet, there is enough information on the public record to continue to cast the specter of doubt. → Read More
As Health Secretary, Tom Price Adds to Whiff of Kleptocracy
Now that Price is responsible for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its $1.15 billion budget, it’s worth taking stock of the allegations of conflicts of interest leveled against the Georgia congressman. → Read More
A Window Into Texas' Publicly Funded Fake Abortion Clinics
Under its "Alternatives to Abortion" program, the state gave more than $2 million in 2015 to these fake clinics. This year, the amount is likely to be significantly higher, given that the program's budget has doubled. → Read More
David Daleiden Is Not an Investigative Reporter, Says New Legal Filing Confirming What We Knew Already
An amicus brief filed in a federal court case provided an opportunity for journalists to state in clear terms why David Daleiden's claims to be an investigative reporter endanger the profession and its goal: to safeguard democracy by holding the powerful to account and keeping the public informed. → Read More
Only Through Becoming a Parent Have I Been Able to Let Go of My Grief at Losing My Own
Having a baby has brought me back to the present in the most profound way I could ever imagine. → Read More
Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target 'Abortion-Minded Women' During Clinic Visits
Women who have visited almost any abortion clinic in the United States have seen anti-choice protesters outside, wielding placards and chanting abuse. A Boston advertiser's technology, when deployed by anti-choice groups, allows those groups to send propaganda directly to a woman’s phone while she is in a clinic waiting room. → Read More
Abortion Providers Call for Closure of Troubled Virginia Abortion Clinic
“Evidence of wrongdoing at Brigham’s American Women’s Services facility in Fairfax is part of a clear pattern of repeated and serious misconduct that poses a significant threat to patient safety, and which cannot be allowed to go unchecked in Virginia," said Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation. → Read More
Anti-Choice Activists, Using Bogus Legal Threats, Trick Teens Into Signing Away Abortion Rights
Providers throughout the country have told Rewire that a document produced by Life Dynamics has been used to deceive and intimidate both patients and providers by threatening them with legal action should they go through with obtaining or providing an abortion. → Read More
Major Anti-Choice Donors Among Biggest Presidential Campaign Contributors Identified by New York Times
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of all the money donated to White House contenders so far. But the two families that have contributed the most to presidential campaigns also give prolifically to anti-choice groups and candidates. → Read More
'No Hope for Me': Women Stripped of Parental Rights After Minor Crimes
The combination of mass incarceration and inflexible foster laws leads to an extraordinary, disproportionate punishment that overwhelmingly affects poor and minority women, an expert told Rewire. → Read More