Social conservatives still haven't forgiven Indiana governor Mitch Daniels for saying there should be a "truce" on issues like abortion while politicians focus on the economy. Now the potential presidential candidate has to decide what to do if the state legislature sends him a bill denying Medicaid money to Planned…
Let us enter Indiana into contention in the state-level sweepstakes to curtail women's rights in the most spectacularly callous way possible. Sure, it's no South Dakota, but does South Dakota have a Republican state rep who argued that there should be no rape or incest exception because abortion-greedy women will…
Arizona Rep. Trent Franks said of the Senate, "When people are faced with a vote in a financial crisis as to whether to fund an organization that kills children for profit, you'd just think that wouldn't be a hard vote."
Voting on the bill banning abortions in Ohio after detection of a fetal heartbeat has been delayed, as anti-abortion legislators and activists debate just how unconstitutional they want to get. The fetus that testified couldn't be reached for comment.
Jumping on the national trend of attacking women's reproductive rights, Republican lawmakers in Florida are pushing a record number of bills that aim to restrict abortions. Just yesterday, two measures that prohibit abortion rights were approved by the Florida Senate Health Policy Committee, according to The Palm…
South Dakota may have dropped the bid to enable the murderers of abortion doctor, but its House and Senate have both passed a bill requiring a 72-hour wait for an abortion, which would be the longest in the nation. Most outrageously, it would require women to visit a crisis pregnancy center before undergoing a…
New York City is set today to regulate so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" to prevent them from lying or misrepresenting themselves to women.
The moment of truth came this morning: The nine-week-old fetus was to testify before the Ohio legislature in support of a bill to ban abortion at the first detection of a heartbeat. So much pressure! No wonder the fetus clammed up.
Representatives Jackie Speier and Gwen Moore were on The View today to push back at the House vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Interestingly, Elisabeth Hasselbeck ended up leading this discussion.
The attempt to link abortion with African-American genocide has hit the New York streets. And pro-choicers aren't the only ones infuriated: The mother of the real-life child depicted here wants it taken down.
Here's a handy widget to tell you how your Congressional representative voted on defunding Planned Parenthood. That way, you can tell them how you feel about their position on stork bucks.
Mike Hogan, candidate for mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., told a Catholic church that he's so anti-abortion, the only thing he wouldn't do was bomb an abortion clinic, adding with a laugh, "but it may cross my mind." The audience applauded.
In the heated House debate yesterday on a proposal to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding for women's health and sex education services, one speech stood out. California representative Jackie Speier said she would abandon her prepared remarks because "my stomach is in knots." Then she told the world about…
South Dakota lawmakers are about to consider a bill that would expand the meaning of justifiable homicide to include "resisting an attempt to harm" an unborn child related to the killer, Mother Jones reports. "If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman's father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill…
The headline on The New York Times coverage of the three anti-abortion laws House Republicans are pushing: "Under Banner of Fiscal Restraint, Republicans Plan New Abortion Bills." Read that again — it's not a joke.
How not-far is Not Far Enough? The bill dared include exceptions allowing women who were victims of rape and incest to seek to use insurance to terminate their pregnancies, because only wealthy women have earned the right to have choices.
As of just now, Live Action has released three more videos of actors pretending to be pimps and prostitutes in Planned Parenthood clinics, this time in Virginia. What did they find?
The Live Action "sting" against Planned Parenthood has revealed nothing about either abortion care or sex trafficking in America. It has, however, revealed that the right-wing fringe is just recycling—a pimp, again? Let's look at the fallout.
Rick Santorum recently said he found it "almost remarkable for a black man" to be pro-choice. The anti-choice linking of abortion, slavery, and genocide has always involved a cocktail of distortion and condescension. So what to do about it?
