Mccain Abortion

McCain Grilled On "The View": Sarah Palin, His Abortion Stance, His Obama Attack Ads, And More

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

***UPDATE*** Saturday's New York Times picks up on the critique, made by the hosts of "The View," that McCain seems to have become consumed with disto...

McCain Volunteers Finally Roused In Northern Virginia

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Diane Tucker

I peered inside the huge glass windows and saw something unexpected: rows and rows of people on phone banks, dozens of them. It was completely unlike the other McCain "victory offices" I've visited.

Accidential Pregnancies Not To Be Taken Lightly

Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.25.2011

Barbara Dehn

As a practicing women's health nurse practitioner, I've worked for over 20 years to try and prevent accidental pregnancies because I've seen first hand the effects that this has on women. An accidental pregnancy may be a source of joy for some women, and a crisis for others.

McCain Says Women's Health is "Extreme"

Cecile Richards | Posted 05.25.2011

Cecile Richards

The debate last night was just the most vivid example of what we've known all along: John McCain is out of touch on women's health.

Sacred Sex and Common Ground: How Obama Won Abortion Part of the Debate

Steven Waldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven Waldman

McCain won the battle to most thrill the activists but Obama got the bigger prize: he defined himself as a reasonable seeker of the common ground.

McCain's Debate Air Quotes Badly "Misfired"

Judy Muller | Posted 05.25.2011

Judy Muller

When it comes to dismissive finger gestures, there is nothing quite like the two-handed "air quote." For pure sarcastic appeal, it beats the much more obvious middle finger every time. But beware what words you put inside those little air quotes.

Health Of The Mother Not Negotiable

Ioana Uricaru | Posted 05.25.2011

Ioana Uricaru

I lived in a country where abortion was illegal. On top of killing close to a million women during a 25-year span, that law intruded on the intimacy of couples and families. I have male friends who had to provoke unsafe abortions on their wives, risking their life and freedom.

Obama Ad: McCain Camp Sleazy, Extreme On Abortion

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama is airing a new ad in New Mexico and Ohio that defends his abortion rights record and says Republican rival J...

Obama On Abortion: McCain "Extreme"

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent with a conservative Senate record on the issue, seems content with the public's...

What Do Women Want?

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Al Meyerhoff

If the coming election is lost, to put the matter bluntly, women will come full circle. Overruling Roe would return choice to the states.

Catholics United Airs Ad: Pro-Life, Anti-McCain (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Catholics United today unveiled a new ad campaign asking why Senator John McCain has voted against health care and effective assistance to pregnant wo...

Why Can't I Be Pro-Choice and Pro-Life?

James Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

James Heffernan

Calling for laws against abortion is the easiest and cheapest way of appearing to support "life" while taking no other steps to do so -- even while promoting an agenda of death.

What Would Really Happen If Abortion Was Left to the States

Donna Crane | Posted 05.25.2011

Donna Crane

His campaign suggests that, even though McCain has consistently called for the overturn of Roe v. Wade, his position simply means that the issue of a woman's right to privacy would go back to the states.

Cindy McCain Says She Disagrees With Palin On Abortion

Posted 05.25.2011

In a one-one-one interview with CBS' Katie Couric, Cindy McCain says she disagrees with Sarah Palin on abortion: COURIC: Some, even Republicans seem...

Obama Airs Tough Abortion Ad In Swing States

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American...

Sam Stein

Palin On Abortion: I'd Oppose Even If My Own Daughter Was Raped

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

In November 2006, then gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin declared that she would not support an abortion for her own daughter even if she had been r...

Former Clinton Backer Wrongly Claims McCain Is Pro-Choice

Time | Posted 05.25.2011

The McCain campaign welcomed delegates to Denver with a new ad Monday, showing Debra Bartoshevich, a self-described "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat," ...

McCain Backs Away From Abortion Pledge To Make Rape, Incest Exception

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report: John McCain's campaign signaled on Wednesday that the Arizona senator is backing away from his previo...

Sam Stein

NARAL Head: McCain Can't Erase Anti-Choice History By Picking Ridge

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

John McCain said he would consider a pro-choice vice president. Barack Obama will have a pro-life speaker at the Democratic convention. But these surp...

McCain's New Mexican Protesters

Ben Terris | Posted 05.25.2011

Ben Terris

"More and more, I'm starting to feel that McCain is just saying something, not thinking, he's just saying something that he feels like he has to say [as a candidate] or that people want to hear. "

Birth Control, Viagra Question Makes McCain Squirm (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

McCain's Straight Talk Express hit an uncomfortable road block yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reports: While John McCain often embodies an anyth...

McCain Flips On Abortion: Won't Challenge Party On Rape, Incest Exceptions

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is facing enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP's platform on abo...

McCain Woos Conservatives With Promises On Judges

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 05.25.2011

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Republican John McCain criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as U.S. chief justice, rea...