Palin Abortion

Sarah Palin Backs Abortion Ballot Measure, Bypassing Legislature

Anchorage Daily News | SEAN COCKERHAM Scockerham@adn.com | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics


Gov. Sarah Palin is backing a ballot measure to bypass the Legislature and make it illegal for teenagers to get an abortion without telling their pare...

Palin Slams Obama: Abortion Isn't Above My Pay Grade

AP | KEN KUSMER | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics


EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is taking President Barack Obama to task for his support of abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell r...

Palin Backs Parental Consent Abortion Bill

McClatchy | Lisa Demer | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics


Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday threw her support behind a controversial bill that would generally require parental consent before girls under age 17 cou...

Will Palin Prevent Other Women From Becoming "The One"?

Julie Menin | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


Julie Menin

Palin's almost gleeful proclamation that she's just an everyday hockey mom and that experience is what we need in a VP, slams all the progress that women elected officials have been making for years.

Who Is Sarah Palin?

Barbra Streisand | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


Barbra Streisand

Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, and now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama? I'm asking who is Sarah Palin?

Sam Stein

Palin On Obama: "Unconditional Support For Unlimited Abortion"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


Governor Sarah Palin launched a harsh, frontal attack against Barack Obama on Saturday for the Senator's position on abortion rights. Appearing in Pe...

Sam Stein

Palin Can't Name Supreme Court Case She Disagrees With Other Than Roe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics


For days, word has been spreading that CBS Evening News was sitting on an embarrassing clip of Sarah Palin not being able to name a Supreme Court case...

Palin To Couric: Media Coverage Isn't Sexist

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics


CBS' Early Show aired some new quotes from Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin. While previous clips have focused on Palin's slip-ups, these are...

Sam Stein

Palin, A Journalism Major, Can't Name A News Source She Reads

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Sarah Palin said she does not support the morning after pill as a form of contraception, strongly implied that homosexuality was a choice, and could n...

Why McCain Likes Obama's New "Lead"

Ari Melber | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

It appears that McCain shored up his party base more than Obama -- The GOP convention unleashed a multi-day abortion-bashing, media-sniping puritan political orgy.

Women -- Repubs, Dems, Hillaryites -- Speak-Out For Obama-Biden

Denise Dennis | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home


Denise Dennis

Explaining that she was a Republican her entire life, she says, "The current Republican Party has destroyed the country economically" and that "The religious right now owns the GOP."

Cindy McCain Says She Disagrees With Palin On Abortion

Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics


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...

Palin And The Enduring Christian Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

"Each wave of conservative Christian organizing erects more institutional infrastructure in the form of publishing houses, radio and television programs, bookstores... This "institutional thickening" bulks up the network to carry it through divisive episodes, such as the current one."

Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics


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...

Does Palin Believe in "Access to Abortion Services" or Just Take Photos with Groups that Do?

Colin Sterling | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics


Colin Sterling

2008-08-30-palin_ARJ_photo.jpg I'm confused about what went on in Palin's 2007 meeting with Alaska's Alliance for Reproductive Justice, which "Advocate[s] for access to abortion services and high quality reproductive health care."

Palin: You're no Hillary Clinton

Van Jones | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics


Van Jones

None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander. John McCain has gone from maverick to "me too" -- trying to out-Democrat the Democrats and pick up some Hillary voters. But it ain't working.