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Ben Nelson Introduces New Anti-Abortion Amendment To Senate Health Care Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Anti-Abortion Amendment, Ben Nelson, Private Insurance Abortions, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Anti-Abortion, Harry Reid, Abortion Coverage, Federal Abortion Coverage, Abortion Health Care, Health Care, Stupak Amendment, Anti-Choice, Politics News

WASHINGTON — With time growing short, Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large federal programs, Medicare and Medicaid, as ...

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Shocked -- Or Not? New Data Shows Abortion Quite Common In Most Red States

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.

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Ryan Grim

Read The Abortion Compromise In Harry Reid's Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Women's Rights, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Read Senate Abortion Health Bill, Read Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Abortion Language, Senate Health Care Reform Bill, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

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

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Send a Coat Hanger to an Anti-Choice Democrat

Howie Klein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Anti-Choice, Blue America, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Howie Klein

We're urging you to sign a petition to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid regarding the 20 formerly pro-choice men who voted for the virulently anti-choice Stupak Amendment last Saturday.

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Walmart, Conscience Clause, Belmont Abbey College, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Religion, Living News
Reproductive Justice

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Abortion in Health Care Reform: The Fight is Far From Over

Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Abortion, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Choice, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Eleanor Smeal

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.

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The "Born Alive" Myth: Tale Turned Political Tool

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Born Alive Act, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Born Alive, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

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.

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Best Political Halloween Costumes: Put Your Costume Where Your Mouth Is

Katie Halper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Blue Dog, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, Manuel Zelaya, Too Big to Fail, Manuel Zelaya Honduras, Pope Benedict, Roe vs Wade, Sarah Palin Wolf Hunting, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Hitler Youth, Roe v. Wade, Astinence Only, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin, Anglican Church, Blue Dogs, Honduras, Anti-Choice, Opt-Out, Public-Option-Opt-Out, Anti-Choice Movement, Blue Dog Dems, Blue Dog Democrats, Halloween, Comedy News
Katie Halper

Wear a fancy suit with a top hat and a cane. Stuff yourself with pillow so you look as bloated as possible. Wear a dollar sign around your neck (you can make it out of tin foil.) You're... Too big to fail.

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Stepping Up the Pressure: The Archbishop Comes to the Abortion Clinic

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Archbishop, Louisville, Kentucky, Catholics for Choice, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Jon-Obrien, Pro-Choice, Living News
Reproductive Justice

Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.

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Anti-Choice Groups Raking in Dough by Promoting Civil Rights of Zygotes

Megan Carpentier | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Life League, Colorado Right to Life, Abortion, Leroy Carhart, Human Life International, Reproductive Choice, Money, Students for Life, Life Legal Defense Fund, Personhood Amendments, Anti-Choice, Choice, Operation Rescue, Politics News
Megan Carpentier

If the anti-choice movement has its way, the moment one sperm eats its way through an egg's outer shell would be the last moment in human development that wouldn't be covered by the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather lucrative racket.

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Dr. Carhart, Under Threat From "Domestic Terrorist Network," Abandoned by Federal Marshalls

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. Carhart, Extremists, Anti-Choice, Domestic Terrorism, Late Abortions, Pro-Choice, Clinic Violence, Dr. Tiller, Abortion Rights, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Antiabortion, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Dr. Carhart lost his federal marshal protection two weeks ago, much to the alarm of pro-choice leaders, leaving him vulnerable at a time when anti-choice violence has been escalating.

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Just the Facts, Sir: The False Dichotomy of Catholics vs. "Pro-choice" on Common Ground

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholics, Abortion, Access, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Choice, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

The assertion that unless Obama bows to the most conservative Catholic position he will lose widespread support is a scare tactic of the right.

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Waldman: Still Not Getting It...

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unintended Pregnancy, Prevention, Contraception, Steven Waldman, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Beliefnet, Pro-Choice, Belief, Adoption, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

If women have true choices, increased access to and support for adoption services will not dramatically affect the rate of abortions.

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Waldman and Saletan: Oh, What a Fine Bromance!

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Will Saletan, Steven Waldman, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Adoption, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Waldman suggests we set up a Presidential commission to study the "sacredness of sex" and that the President start to talk about this as part of his platform. If I want the government to tell me how and what to think about sex, I'll buy a plane ticket to Afghanistan and live under the original Taliban.

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Common Ground: What Does the Far Right Get? Or, Who Wins and Who Loses?

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Bipartisanship, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Pepfar, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

What women need is both access to contraception that addresses their changing needs throughout their lifecycle and access to safe abortion services.

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"Anonymous" Republican Senator Obstructs Resolution to Condemn Clinic Violence

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Tiller, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Reproductive Health, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Yesterday, a Republican Senator used his power to put a "hold" on a Senate Resolution originally condemning violence against women's health providers, thereby blocking any vote on the resolution.

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Note to Women: Don't Think! Ross Douthat Is Here to Do It For You

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Abortion, Late Term Abortion, Anti-Choice, Douthat, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Women, take off your shoes, get knocked up, and go back to the kitchen, 'cause Ross will tell us everything we need to know and the world will be a better place.

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Catholics for Choice Protest Appointment of Anti-choice Advocate to Senior Position at HHS

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Tiller, Access, Catholics for Choice, Anti-Choice, Hhs, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Choice, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

The appointment yesterday of Alexia Kelley as Director of Faith-based and Community Partnerships at the Department of Health and Human Services marks "a defeat for reason and logic."

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Why I Wear the Penny: A Planned Parenthood Clinic Escort's Reaction to the Tiller Murder

Jason Notte | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Anti-Abortion Murder, George Tiller Killed, Planned-Parenthood, Abortion Rights, Anti-Abortion Violence, Anti-Abortion, George Tiller Murder, Planned Parenthood, John Salvi, Paul Hill, George Tiller, Anti-Choice Movements, Anti-Choice Activists, Doctor George Tiller, Abortion Laws, Anti-Abortion Killings, Anti-Choice Violence, Anti-Choice, Operation Rescue, Randall Terry George Tiller, Politics News
Jason Notte

My sister is a grown woman who, at some point, may need one of the many services Planned Parenthood has to offer. If she felt that someone might try to deny her access to these services, I would like her to know that her big brother will always be there to clear a path.

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Don't Give the Right Wing a Win on Obama's Nominees

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Naral Pro-Choice America, Anti-Choice, Obama, Pro-Choice, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Dawn Johnsen, Obama Nominees, David Hamilton, Politics News
Nancy Keenan

The right wing has made these nominees their test case on how to derail President Obama's efforts to put qualified persons in key posts. Our goal is to make sure they fail this test.

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Catholic Extremists Swiftboat Sebelius

Cristina Page | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Obama's Cabinet, Anti-Abortion, Obama, Hhs, Pro-Life, Sebelius, Health and Human Services, Pro-Choice, Kathleen Sebelius Abortion, Obama Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelius, Sebelius Pro-Choice, Catholic, Christian Right, Sebelius Health and Human Services, Tom Coburn, Sebelius Abortion, Religious Right, Anti-Choice, Anti-Choice Movement, Politics News
Cristina Page

The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.

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Redefining the Question of Choice

Lindsey Horvath | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Suleman Octuplets, Octuplets, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Suleman, Living News
Lindsey Horvath

In order to truly create a "pro-life" society, we must be willing to support the children who are born into it.

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Bush, Our Ex-Boyfriend

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control, Family Planning, Midnight Regulations, Conscience Objector, Leavitt, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Religious Objection, Hhs, Nfprha, Planned Parenthood, Aclu, Pro-Choice, Bush, George Bush, Politics News
Cristina Page

Bush is the ex-boyfriend we've finally gotten out of our life only to discover he left an unpleasant souvenir, like an STD. A particularly nasty strain too, in the form of new HHS regulations.

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