Planned Parenthood

Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


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

Bart Stupak, Leave My Daughter Alone

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Michael Kieschnick

Why would twenty men with positive ratings on past votes from Planned Parenthood vote for the horrendous Stupak amendment? I have no idea.

Planned Parenthood To Fight Stupak-Pitts Provision

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...

Abortion Protesters, Aurora Cut Planned Parenthood Deal

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....

NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jane Hamsher

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.

New York Voters Send Right Wing Packing in 23rd Congressional District

M. Tracey Brooks | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York


M. Tracey Brooks

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.

Former Planned Parenthood Director's Holes In Story Revealed In Recent Radio Interview

Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Amie Newman

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?

2010 Colorado Personhood Initiative Will Define Life Even Earlier Than 2008 Initiative

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 "...

Ordinance Would Create 'Bubble' To Protect Abortion Patients, Providers From Protesters

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...

Anti-Abortion Group Politicizes Memorial of Slain Pro-Life Activist

Chris Savage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Chris Savage

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.

Lobbying The September 11 Day Of Service

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...

Learning from Laura Ingraham, Believe it or Not

Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Tamar Abrams

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.

Virginia Women: Get Back in That Chastity Belt!

Cecile Richards | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Cecile Richards

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!

Abortion Is New Front in Health Care Battle

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...

Women's Health Is Universal Health Care

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


Cecile Richards

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?

Misleading Attacks on Women's Health

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Cecile Richards

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.

A Radical Notion: Women's Health Care as Mainstream

Cecile Richards | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


Cecile Richards

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.

Jeff Muskus

Right-Wing Protesters: Birth Control Will Kill You

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...

Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green


Danielle Cavallucci

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...

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

Jason Notte | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


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.

An Open Letter to the Wichita Shooter Who Killed Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller

Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff

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.

My Abortion: It's Time to Tell

Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living


Tamar Abrams

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.

Obama and Abortion: Escaping the Left/Right Divide

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

The hate-filled morons of the Religious Right have deservedly lost the battle for the hearts and minds of America.

Antiabortion Activist Takes on Planned Parenthood with Hidden Camera

Jeff Norman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics


Jeff Norman

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.