Abortion

Stupak: Win Or Lose, We Need Culture Change

Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Aspen Baker

We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.

Parental Notification Teen Abortion Law On Hold Until New Year

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago


An lllinois law requiring doctors to tell the parents of teen-aged patients' before performing an abortion won't come into effect this year....

Stupak-Pitts Goes Beyond Status Quo

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Rep. Lois Capps

We must not allow abortion opponents to use our health care reform process to drastically restrict a woman's access to a legal medical procedure, and that's exactly what the Stupak amendment does.

Congress Rocks

Jim Jaffe | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Jim Jaffe

Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.

Cartoon: Iceberg Dead Ahead!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver


Shan Wells

I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

Ryan Grim

Senate Dems Close In On Reform: Details Of Health Care Bill Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...

Truth Is Indeed One of the First Casualties of War

Jon O'Brien | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jon O'Brien

Despite his carefully nuanced positions, we know that Jim Wallis is anti-choice and opposes access to comprehensive reproductive health services for women.

Joshua Woodward, Table 8 Restaurateur, Gave Girlfriend Abortion Drug: Cops

nydailynews.com | Nancy Dillon | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York


Cops believe Joshua Woodward, a partner in Table 8 at New York's Cooper Square Hotel, gave his 13-weeks pregnant girlfriend Misoprostol, an affidavit ...

Diana DeGette Targeted By Conservative Groups For Standing Up To Stupak

The Hill | Michael O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver


Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) suffers from "religious bigotry" for suggesting religiously-affiliated groups should not take part in the healthcare deba...

Harvard Stands Up to Stupak

Leah Reis-Dennis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Leah Reis-Dennis

Watch out, America's politicians, students are back on the streets. We voted last year because of Obama, and you have just given us a reason to vote next year.

Lessons on Birth Control from Afghanistan

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


Madeleine M. Kunin

Providing birth control information and giving out pills is still dangerous in some areas in Afghanistan. Many fear that birth control is an American plot to weaken the country.

A Woman Scorned: The Betrayal and Backlash of the Stupak/Pitts Anti-Abortion Amendment

Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff

The health care bill is so important, we can't let this amendment get in the way of its passage. But don't mistake that to mean its O.K. to ask the ladies to "take one for the team," not this time.

Anti-Abortion Group To Protest Sarah Palin

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


When she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin reportedly said that even if her then-14-year-old daughter were raped, she would "cho...

The Logical Flaw Behind the Stupak Amendment

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Sam Sedaei

Politicians' personal beliefs on abortion are absolutely irrelevant. It is time to treat the legality of abortion with the same strength that we treat all of our other laws.

The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Valerie Tarico

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

Ryan Grim

WATCH: Abortion Battle Coming To Cable

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


The fight over abortion rights set off by a provision in the House health-reform bill is coming to cable on Tuesday. The ad is from Center for Reprod...

Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion

Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


Melinda Warner

Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.

Bart Stupak, Leave My Daughter Alone

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Michael Kieschnick

Why would twenty men with positive ratings on past votes from Planned Parenthood vote for the horrendous Stupak amendment? I have no idea.

10 Reasons Why the Stupak-Pitts Amendment Has to Go

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


Nancy L. Cohen

Even if some Democrats who voted for the amendment did so because of deep convictions, the main thrust of the measure is to condemn women for being sexually active.

Will Stupak Abort Health Reform?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics


D. Brad Wright

Let me begin by making it very clear that I value all life--potential or fully realized--but that I am also pro-choice. How can this be? Well, unlike ...

Top 10 Reasons This Woman Can't Write for Late Night Comedy Shows

Catie Lazarus | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy


Catie Lazarus

My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).

Stupak-Pitts Is Not Worth Killing Health Care Bill

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Lanny Davis

I am hoping Rep. DeGette and others will look at the big picture and ask themselves: Would I vote against this bill if I or a member of my family had no health insurance?

Will Democrats Scuttle Healthcare Because Of Abortion?

Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living


Kim Stagliano

I used to say I was politically pro-choice but personally pro-life, meaning I would never consider having an abortion. That was until I was faced with the choice of carrying a baby to term myself.