Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Why would twenty men with positive ratings on past votes from Planned Parenthood vote for the horrendous Stupak amendment? I have no idea.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Planned Parenthood and its pro-choice allies are launching a grassroots lobbying front against the Stupak amendment -- the provision in the House's re...
The Beacon-News | ANDRE SALLES | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Tonight, the City Council will have a chance to bring a two-year legal battle between the city and anti-abortion protesters to a close....
Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal that allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services.
M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
The GOP failed to back its own candidate and allowed outside influences such as the Conservative Party and the Club for Growth to hijack the election. This is not good for the GOP or for women.
Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
How did Ms. Johnson become the director of a Planned Parenthood center that provides abortions up to 14 weeks without having seen an ultrasound image?
The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver
A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an "...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
Arguing that abortion protests have grown more "vicious" and "in-your-face" since the May 31 murder of a Wichita, Kan., doctor, a Chicago City Council...
Chris Savage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Although anti-abortion groups decried the "politicization" of the killing of Dr. George Tiller, it appears that they are perfectly happy to use this tragedy to their own political advantage.
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Dave Levinthal at the Center for Responsive Politics reminds us this morning that nothing in Congress goes unlobbied. The Edward M. Kennedy Serve Amer...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
I agreed to do the show because it was about moms and daughters, a topic on which there's no political epicenter, and because my daughter was participating in the interview.
Cecile Richards | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Meet Bob McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor in the state of Virginia. He's a true believer -- railing against legalized birth control, public schools, childcare and, believe it, working women!
Wall Street Journal | FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...
Cecile Richards | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support?
Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.
Cecile Richards | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Maybe one day we won't need a special campaign to support women's health. But until then, Planned Parenthood is here to make sure women aren't worse off after health care reform than before.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Unable to turn the public against sex, the pro-life movement will be on the march Saturday trying to convince women that birth-control pills will kill...
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...
Jason Notte | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
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.
Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
American women need to stand up loud and send a message we are in fact capable and qualified to make our own medical decisions, and we demand the right to do so under the law.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
When a killer pointed a gun at Dr. Tiller on Sunday, he forced me to tell my story. I urge all women across the nation to tell their stories.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The hate-filled morons of the Religious Right have deservedly lost the battle for the hearts and minds of America.
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
Her own delay in reporting the crime she perceived to have occurred in Memphis is an especially perplexing mystery considering how much Rose proselytizes about the legal and moral obligation to protect children.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics