On Monday evening’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, host Samantha Bee, joined by a snazzily-dressed Patton Oswalt, investigated crisis pregnancy centers that claim to offer pregnant women counseling services, although their primary goal is to discourage these women from seeking abortions.
On Thursday, Donald Trump, a disturbingly old Dennis the Menace impersonator, suggested that maybe abortions should be illegal and women who have them should be punished. He then semi-backtracked. Last night on CNN, Ben Carson, his most half-hearted endorser, argued that, in Trump’s defense, he didn’t think at all…
A Kentucky Senate committee has just approved a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound first. This is roughly the one millionth time Kentucky Republicans have tried to pass this piece of legislation, but this year, they might actually succeed, because Kentucky Democrats aren’t…
When women have access to safe and affordable health care, abortion rates drop. WHODATHUNKIT? Now, some members of the Iowa Board of Medicine are trying to get telemedicine abortions — the practice partially credited for the decline — stopped because they say something just doesn't feel "right" about them. Hmm...…
Forty years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled that women had a constitutional right to abortion based on the right to privacy. But — judging from the 30 states that passed 135 new laws restricting access to abortion during the past two years alone — it increasingly seems that privacy has not served the cause. That's…
After Dr. George Tiller, one of the few physicians in America to perform late term abortions, was assassinated by anti-choice zealot Scott Roeder in 2009, only four doctors who perform third trimester abortions remain.Third trimester abortions make up fewer than one percent of all abortions in the United States, and…
Last month, Virginia Senate majority leader, Tommy Normant (R) began taking meetings with minority leader Dick Saslaw to see what it would take to get the liberal faction of state government to lay low on the abortion issue and stop repealing some controversial anti-choice laws recently passed by the Virginia General…
Todd Akin released a new campaign ad today featuring a rape survivor saying she had an abortion. Now, I'm confused. If women's bodies have ways of shutting that down, why did she have to have an abortion? WHO IS LYING HERE? Or was she raped and separately had an abortion? I'm just really confused, can anyone clarify…
A recent study of 510 women in New Zealand showed that giving women free IUDs after abortions drastically reduced their chances of a repeat abortion within two years, compared to the women in the study who chose to go on the pill.
LeRoy Carhart takes on abortion patients that would have gone to his friend, Dr. George Tiller, except that Tiller was murdered two years ago. He practices in Nebraska, except when he has to go to Maryland almost weekly because Nebraska passed restrictions aimed pretty directly at him. He used to have a farm, but it…
In an interesting essay posted on The Hairpin, Dolores P., a woman who's training to become an abortion provider, explains what it's like to walk past protesters on your way to work, and the hardships her patients go through to get medical treatment. She decided she wanted to help women terminate their pregnancies…
"The biggest advance of the abortion industry in America has been the passage of Obamacare," she said in Dallas. Actual pro-choice advocates beg to differ about the Affordable Care Act. But maybe they're blinded by those fictional millions.
Russia's federal education system has sparked an outrage for asking parents of schoolchildren whether the mothers have had abortions. the survey has also drawn complaints for violating the medical privacy of children.
• French researchers have found that listening to love ballads can make women more likely to accept a date from an "average" young man. In order to test this, they played their subjects music by Francis Cabrel and Vincent Delerm.
• In response to the death of 15-year-old student Phoebe Prince, the Massachusetts Legislature voted today to pass an anti-bullying law. "This is a day we can be proud we have done something positive," said Rep. John Scibak.
On last night's episode, the girls were supposed to be vampires for their photo shoot, but posing with their legs spread atop a tub of fake blood suggested a number of other scenarios, each one vaginal.
• Not only is the VP's verbal diarrhea no big thing, it is downright T-shirt-worthy, according to our fearless leader. Joe Biden claims Obama joked on Wednesday morning that his comment was "the best thing about yesterday."
• Two high school teachers from Winnipeg have been suspended for performing a lap dance at a pep rally. School officials say the dance was "totally inappropriate" and a 12th grade student called it "dirty." Video after the jump. •
• Good news for undersexed ladies: Scientists may be close to developing a libido-boosting pill for women. The drug was initially developed as an antidepressant, but trials showed it made participants no happier, but a little hornier. •
