Last Tuesday, one-woman filibuster machine Wendy Davis and her angry feminist army blocked the Texas GOP from voting on an evil omnibus anti-abortion bill. Success! Until the next day, when Governor Rick Perry, Grand Protector of Ladies From Themselves, announced a second special session so he could put the bill back…
That's what New York Magazine's Dan Amira suggested earlier today when he shared the following tweet Rubin sent a little more than an hour after news of the Boston Marathon explosions started making the social media rounds:
Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of running a clinic straight out of the Saw horror franchise: standard practices allegedly included snipping the spines of live newborns with rusty equipment, storing feces in cat-food containers and fetus feet in jars, and overdosing patients, particularly…
Though the moral to the horrible story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Pennsylvania doctor charged with killing a woman and several babies, is that women should have access to safe and legal abortions, anti-choice lawmakers in the state have successfully used the case to do the exact opposite. Yesterday the Pennsylvania…
Two former employees at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's West Philadelphia "abortion clinic" have pled guilty to murder.
Earlier this year, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was charged with killing a patient at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, inducing the live birth of several babies then cutting their spines with scissors, and keeping jars of fetel feet for no medical purpose. Now his alleged crimes could have horrible consequences for all…
In honor of yesterday's National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers, we talked to retired provider Dr. Suzanne Poppema about the future of abortion care, the potential consequences of defunding Planned Parenthood, and how the climate of shame around abortion actually leads to more unsafe clinics.
"You will see me on the news." Stella* said with complete seriousness. "I'll throw myself down the stairs. I'll do what it takes. I need to get rid of this baby."
Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's recent indictment has sparked a campaign to further restrict late-term abortions. That's the wrong message to take from his crimes.
In the aftermath of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell's murder indictment, one thing's becoming increasingly clear — the fact that women felt they had to go to Gosnell's clinic means something is deeply wrong with abortion care in America.
A Philadelphia doctor faces murder charges for operating what one DA called a "house of horrors" abortion clinic where a woman and many already-born infants were killed.
• A 91-year-old pharmacy cashier tried to fight off a robber who grabbed a handful of cash from her register. "I want him to get caught because I want to smack him," said Florence Critelli after the attack.
