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Would it be appropriate for Jewish and Muslim House members to oppose legislation beneficial to the pork industry or, even more analogous, to insist on a ban on eating pork products altogether?
Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The Stupak-Pitts amendment takes me back to the days when abortion was not legal and the shame of an abortion was very much like wearing a big red letter A on your forehead.
Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver
Our message is clear: we will not support any final bill that restricts women's access to reproductive health services beyond current law.
Karen Finney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
The members of Congress who voted in support of the Stupak amendment sent a message to America's women: after more than 200 years we are still not fu...
The Beacon-News | ANDRE SALLES | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Tonight, the City Council will have a chance to bring a two-year legal battle between the city and anti-abortion protesters to a close....
FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
When I first learned that the Stupak Amendment, which would prevent abortion from being covered under health care plans included in the health care in...
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Stupak's poison pill will kill the public option -- unless progressives react intelligently rather than emotionally, in which case they can actually turn the anti-abortion amendment to their advantage.
Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The so-called Stupak Amendment is an outrageous denial of choice to women, dictated behind the scenes by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and their army of lobbyists.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
After last week's vote, my company got no additional coverage, just higher rates. This is profound evidence that the insurance industry won the health care debate, and that taxpayers lost big.
Jessica Arons | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The Stupak Amendment, passed Saturday night by the House of Representatives after a compromise deal fell apart, potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women's access to abortion.
The Plum Line | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
I could not understand how one woman made the decision to have fifteen abortions in as many years. As a pro-choice supporter, this disturbed me.
The Denver Post | Lynn Bartels | Posted 11.08.2009 | Denver
Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said last week he opposes abortion, but in Congress he earned a reputation as a moderate and a maverick on the i...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democra...
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
On Saturday, with the aide of some 60 Democrats, women's rights were effectively negated by the US Congress as the House passed the Stupak amendment ...
Ellen Malcolm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
As Congress struggled to pass health care reform to improve the lives of America's families, anti-choice forces took advantage of the situation to mount yet another assault on abortion.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
A vote originally set for tomorrow on the House health care bill (HR 3200) may be delayed until next week, even after months of drama to arrive at th...
Cristina Page | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Obama's goal seems to be to appeal to a reasonable group that can talk to, rather than past, each other about abortion. If he's going to succeed, he has to confront those who perceive common ground as a threat.
The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 11.06.2009 | Denver
Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According t...
Sam Hoyt | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
While Dr. Tiller's work and his unflappable defense of a woman's right to choose abortion was extremely high profile, many physicians and abortion center staff face serious harassment.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The substitution of "baby" for "fetus" in the debate over born-alive bills is just another way for opponents of abortion to derail the abortion debate by blurring the lines between abortion and infanticide.
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's pare...
Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In my office, when parents tell me they just want to wait before they give their children vaccines, I explain that this is a choice not to vaccinate.
Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
How did Ms. Johnson become the director of a Planned Parenthood center that provides abortions up to 14 weeks without having seen an ultrasound image?
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MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics