Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that questions whether crisis pregnancy centers have a First Amendment right to mislead patients about abortion and abortion services. The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, an anti-abortion nonprofit that represents more than 1,400 “pregnancy…
Women, you may think that the flesh that covers you and the organs and muscles and neurons that make you breathe and poop and eat are your own, but actually they are not. Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey can see how might “feel like that is” your body, but if you are pregnant, he regrets to inform you that your…
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed a new bill into law that bans uterine dilation and evacuation, one of the safest and most common abortion procedures in existence, and allows family members of the woman to sue her abortion provider if the physician is in violation of the new law.
On December 19, 2016, Texas will put into effect regulations requiring that all fetal remains be cremated or buried. This legislation is carried out in spite of vehement protest by both the medical community and reproductive rights activists.
Mike Pence—GOP vice-presidential nominee and senescent demon-possessed frat boy—wants to make one thing extremely clear: he does not call people names. (I do!) And to emphasize his commitment to kindergarten politics, he has refused to speak ill of a maniacal racist, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
On Saturday, August 6, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued that a woman infected with the Zika virus should not be permitted to get an abortion, even if it’s probable that the child will be afflicted with acute microcephaly.
Last year, Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in jail for feticide and neglect of a dependent, after going to a hospital for severe bleeding and telling doctors that she had delivered a stillborn baby at home and put the remains in a dumpster. On Friday, the Indiana Court of Appeals decided to vacate the feticide…
A new extension for your Google Chrome browser will change every use of the phrase “pro-life” on a webpage to “anti-choice.” The creators of the tool say that using “pro-life” is harmful, given that it “masks abortion opponents’ true intention of limiting women’s reproductive choices and demonizes abortion rights…
Operation Rescue and other anti-abortion groups have taken to dumpster-diving behind abortion clinics, ProPublica reports, trying to find patient records in order to prove that the clinics are violating their privacy. This has been going on since at least 2008, with anti-abortion groups claiming that the clinics are…
Two anti-abortion measures were passed by Oklahoma house delegates Wednesday. The first triples the mandatory wait period for a woman seeking an abortion from one day to three days. The second measure bans abortions at the 20-week mark.
A pro-life media group has released a new video called "The Apology," in which square-jawed, manly Christian bros apologize somberly to the camera for allowing women they were sleeping with to have an abortion. "I should have manned up and fought for you," one says, referring to the fetus.
Listen to Citizen Radio's Jamie Kilstein take down an anti-choice listener, point by point, on their latest episode. Kilstein specifically addresses several key points from the anti-choice argument, including why it's a bad idea to set bans on abortions after a certain time has passed in the pregnancy. Yes, it's as…
An Iowa Republican has introduced a bill into state legislature that would allow women who experience "abortion regret" — a made-up psychological condition that isn't recognized by any major medical organization — to sue their doctor. Curiously, the legislator's bill doesn't allow women who have regretted having…
We can all agree that anti-choice legislation is inherently sexist, but the racism used to justify South Dakota's sex selective abortion ban, which just passed the House, is something else.
To be completely fair, every day is Conservative Dudes Shit On Your Rights Day if you look at things from the right (pun intended) angle. But even in the current anti-letting women mind their own bodies climate, today was special. Isn't it nice to know that some old guys in Washington who you'll never meet care so…
Yesterday, a proposed ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy was rejected by voters of Albuquerque. We're not talking a polite "it's not you, it's me" kind of rejection. We're talking changing your phone number-level rejection. We're talking Moving To Another City Without Telling You kind of rejection. Here's…
Thanks to the efforts of conservatives who got elected based on lying to the electorate about knowing how to do stuff like "create jobs" and "fix the economy" (LOL), it's been a generation since getting an abortion was this big a pain in the ass — albeit not as big a pain in the ass as carrying a pregnancy for 9…
Yesterday the North Dakota Senate appproved two strict anti-abortion bills that had been waiting to be approved since February. They're now on their way to Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple for his signature, and he's quite likely to sign them into law, given his own anti-choice themed changes to lengthen the…
Studies show that although Americans grapple with the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice," most voters consistently support a woman's right to an abortion. We saw this play out in real time during last year's elections: remember the Gallup poll which found that only 41% of people identified as pro-choice? Conservatives…
Emily Bazelon's New York Times Magazine profile of Charmaine Yoest - the PR-savvy anti-choicer whose advocacy group, Americans United for Life, is responsible for roughly one-third of the 92 fetus love letters abortion restrictions passed by state legislatures in 2011 - is both excellent and frustrating.
