This anti-Obama ad featuring Gianna Jessen, the survivor of a botched abortion, is powerful and moving. The one thing it does not prove is its central political claim.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
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...
Al Meyerhoff | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
If the coming election is lost, to put the matter bluntly, women will come full circle. Overruling Roe would return choice to the states.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent with a conservative Senate record on the issue, seems content with the public's...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A sudden surge in advertising by outside groups is filling the airwaves and cable channels with unflattering portrayals of Democrat...
James Heffernan | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
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.
Rusty Russell | Posted 09.10.2008 | Home
Nearly every admonishment of Obama these days includes some call for the candidate to cut to the chase. Simplify the speeches, they say. Chop down the answers into blurbs. But what all these freelance campaign managers miss is this: Barack doesn't think that way. He's not a refrigerator magnet guy.
Politico | Posted 09.03.2008 | Politics
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...
The Politico | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
An unsigned 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days. As president...
Drew Westen | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
If Democrats continue to parry Republican war cries of "baby killer" or continue to couch the debate in terms of life vs. choice, they do indeed have something to worry about.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls reported that Republican officials and outside groups were set to launch a smear campaign aga...
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics
CBN News' David Brody interviewed Barack Obama after Saturday night's Saddleback forum. He says: It seems like Barack Obama's heated answer about Th...
Zack Exley | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
If Obama can boldly articulate a pro-life platform to reduce abortion, care for children and families, reduce arms and prevent war then he could bring about a seismic shift in electoral politics.
Steven Waldman | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Obama must tell the pro-choice community: I'm with you on legal restrictions, but you need to accept that I'm going to campaign against abortion.
ABC News | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
The Christian Defense Coalition held their anti-Obama press conference today -- "An Appeal to Catholics Regarding the 2008 Presidential Election" -- c...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Obama is walking a dangerous road -- especially with women Democratic voters -- by saying things about reproductive rights that make him look more Republican than John McCain.
Politico | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
After announcing a few weeks ago that they would hold off backing Obama until each local chapter had signed on, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund end...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
Does Sen. Barack Obama really mean to say he supports new restrictions on late-term abortions that would effectively weaken Roe v Wade? That's the hu...
Keli Goff | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Michelle Malkin and her conservative cohorts found Obama's comments on sex education so disturbing because of the president's oh-so impressive record on the issue.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
If our highest aspiration is to be a consumer with no thought or care for our neighbor, we will remain a culture in which abortion is not only inevitable but logical.
Steve Trombley | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Illinois NOW endorsed Barack Obama in his elections in 1998 and 2002 after he voted "present" on several bills.
Washington Post | Matthew Mosk | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
A national women's rights group supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) distributed an e-mail yesterday accusing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Clinton and her surrogates are attacking from every direction, hoping something will stick. The attacks are as varied as they are contemptible. Let's take a look at the dirty laundry list.
AP | Nedra Pickler | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizes rival Barack Obama's record on abortion rights in a mailing sent to New Hampshire voters _ her first direct...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.05.2007 | Home
Ducking votes and then engaging in historical revisionism seems to be a pattern with Obama.
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
Writing for the Daily Beast, Michael Kinsley relays a disturbing story about John...
You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an...
In Debate II, John McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American...
In 2004, America's malleable mainstream media allowed itself...
We've come to lower our expectations for real debates in the...
The insta-polls, which provide viewers with a somewhat skewed but important insight into how each...
Madonna went on VP candidate "Sarah fucking Paling" at her Madison Square Garden show Monday...
In her "No Bias, No Bull" segment Wednesday night, Campbell Brown pleaded with the...
NEW YORK — A runaway train of a sell-off turned the anniversary of...
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Steven Waldman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics