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Pro-Choice Group Plans To Aid Moderate GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.10.2012

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A pro-choice group that worked with an abortion doctor who was gunned down in 2009 will be assisting Republican Kansas state senators in their bid to ...

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State Floats Another Controversial Abortion Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.19.2012

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A new bill moving through the Tennessee House of Representatives would require the state to publish the names of each doctor who performs an abortion ...

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Why I'm "Marching" for Trust Women Week

Ellen R. Shaffer | Posted 04.01.2012

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They tried to strip abortion coverage out of all insurance plans during health care reform, and I didn't speak up because I thought I might lose "more important things."

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Is The Government Omitting Anti-Abortion Violence From Its Main Terrorism Database?

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The federal government's main database of global terrorism includes tens of thousands of attacks over the last seven years, a survey of ...

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WATCH: Maddow Gives Her Viewers A Chilling Reminder

Posted 08.01.2011

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Rachel Maddow took time out of her Tuesday show to remember Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor who was murdered almost exactly two years ag...

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Kansas Abortion Doctor Targeted by Extremists -- Sound Familiar?

Katherine Spillar | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Kansas an escalating campaign of threats, harassment and terror is targeting Dr. Mila Means, who recently announced her plans to provide abortions in Wichita.

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Is Providing Abortion Creating A 'Nuisance'?

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first doctor to try to offer abortion services in Wichita, Kansas, since Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in a church in May 2009 has been blocke...

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On The Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade, Let's Honor Mothers

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Bible supports women's right to reproductive moral decision-making, and I think those who try to use it to deny women's reproductive freedom misuse it.

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Donald Hertz Gets Probation For Colo. Abortion Threat

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — A Washington state man has been sentenced to five years of probation for threatening the family of a Colorado abortion doctor shortly a...

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Grand Jury Weighs Whether There Was Conspiracy To Kill George Tiller

The Kansas City Star | Judy L. Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 18 months after a Wichita abortion doctor was gunned down in his church, a federal investigation into a possible conspiracy continues in Kan...

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Weekly Pulse: The Coming War on Health Reform, Government Cheese, and how CPCs Incubate Anti-Choice Violence

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Republicans don't have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they are determined to use their ...

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Weekly Pulse: Fear-mongering and Fetal Separatism in Today's Anti-Choice Movement

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rachel Maddow's documentary, "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller," premiered on Monday. The film tells ...

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WATCH: Rachel Maddow Announces Special On Murdered Abortion Doctor

Posted 05.25.2011

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Rachel Maddow announced on her show Monday that she will be narrating a special on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor slain i...

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Extremism, the Makeover, and Election 2010

Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...

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Death Threat: The Widening Gyre‏

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

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First I was threatened with assault. Then I was threatened with murder. Do you see how they ratchet up the bullying, and try to cow us?

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Scott Roeder: Abortion Doctor's Killer Complains Of Treatment In Prison, Files For Early Release

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WICHITA, Kan. — The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has filed a petition complaining of his treatment in prison and seeking his r...

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Scott Roeder Sentenced To Life In Prison: George Tiller's Murderer Describes Abortion In Court

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WICHITA, Kan. — Defiant in court, a man who murdered one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions used his sentencing hearing t...

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George Tiller Murder: Scott Roeder Faces Life Sentence, But Some Argue Abortion Provider's Killer Got His Way

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WICHITA, Kan. — The man who gunned down one of the few doctors in the U.S. to perform late-term abortions could be sent to prison Thursday for t...

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What I Learned from Dr. Tiller: Why "Trust Women PAC" and Affected Parents Oppose the Nebraska Abortion Ban

Julie Burkhart | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's happening in Nebraska right now isn't local. Abortion rights opponents are trying to shut down one of four US health care providers still performing specialized late-term procedures.

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The Hair-Tearing False Equivalency of American Political Violence.

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Please, someone, anyone, stop Mika Brzezinski before she kills journalistic integrity again. Ms. Brzezinski if you're reading this, I'm begging you, just google "false equivalency" and read some of the commentaries on the various blogs that pop up.

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What Would Jesus Do?

Ian Squires | Posted 05.25.2011

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While considering what kind of relationship Scott Roeder and Dr. Tiller each have with Jesus Christ, I wonder: WWJD if He went to medical school? I think he'd probably become an abortion doctor.

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Roeder Convicted, Testimony by Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline Ruled Out

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Roeder convicted himself of a calculated first degree murder. Otherwise, the major events in the courtroom were the ones that did not happen.

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Scott Roeder GUILTY: Killer Of Kansas Abortion Provider Convicted

AP | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WICHITA, Kan. — A jury took just 37 minutes Friday to convict an anti-abortion activist of murder for putting a gun to the head of abortion doct...

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What I Learned From Speaking with Scott Roeder

Devin Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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This country has a thriving culture of manufacturing dehumanizing lies about people with whom you disagree, be it Dr. George Tiller, or George W. Bush. It's dangerous, and it's a growing problem.

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37 Years After Roe, Abortion Access Attacked in Kansas Courtroom

Janet Crepps | Posted 05.25.2011

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Allowing a voluntary manslaughter option negates the Supreme Court's constitutional protection of abortion rights and is an invitation to grotesque and self-serving vigilantism.

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