It’s official, this is the Week Of Fools. They are everywhere, even *sarcastic gasp* in the form of a Republican trying to remember the term for ... you know, that thing that stops women from getting pregnant. They're always up in arms about it ... oh yeah, birth control! » 8/15/14 1:40pm 8/15/14 1:40pm

Defunding Planned Parenthood was a hot legislative trend in 2011, but now it seems that all that hard, not-really-job-creating-at-all work put in by our Tea Partying state legislatures is being slowly undone by the court system. The newest state that has been told, in no uncertain terms, that you can't defund Planned… » 10/23/12 7:00pm 10/23/12 7:00pm

Having hoped to precede Texas' and Arizona's big rattlesnake-skin-cowboy-boot footsteps, Indiana seemed poised in 2011 to deny Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because the organization performs abortions. Then U.S. district judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued an injunction blocking parts of Indiana's law last summer. On… » 7/08/12 8:45pm 7/08/12 8:45pm

Denise Grady and Béatrice de Géa of the NY Times (again) report and find beauty in the problems with inadequate medical care for expectant mothers in rural Tanzania, how illegal abortions contribute to the problem and how the doctors and women doing the best they can. [NY Times, NY Times] » 6/02/09 2:30pm 6/02/09 2:30pm