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If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion

Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Health Insurance, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Republicans, Politics News

Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.

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Stupak-Pitts Is Not Worth Killing Health Care Bill

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Health Care Bill, Abortion, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

I am hoping Rep. DeGette and others will look at the big picture and ask themselves: Would I vote against this bill if I or a member of my family had no health insurance?

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Planned Parenthood To Fight Stupak-Pitts Provision

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pro Choice, Abortion, Lobbyblog, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

Planned Parenthood and its pro-choice allies are launching a grassroots lobbying front against the Stupak amendment -- the provision in the House's re...

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Walmart, Conscience Clause, Belmont Abbey College, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Religion, Living News

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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Protecting a Woman's Right to Choose

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Capps Amendment, Abortion, Women's Rights, Public Option, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Stupak Amendment, Hyde Amendment, Breast Cancer, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Denver News

Our message is clear: we will not support any final bill that restricts women's access to reproductive health services beyond current law.

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Stupak Amendment Supported By Many Previously Pro-Choice Democrats

FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak Amendment Abortion, Democrats Abortion, Abortion Health Care, Democrats Stupak Amendment, Abortion Debate, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Abortion, Pro-Choice Stupak Amendment, Politics News

When I first learned that the Stupak Amendment, which would prevent abortion from being covered under health care plans included in the health care in...

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Abortion in Health Care Reform: The Fight is Far From Over

Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Abortion, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Choice, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The so-called Stupak Amendment is an outrageous denial of choice to women, dictated behind the scenes by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and their army of lobbyists.

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Assault on Women's Reproductive Rights Continues with a Vengeance

Ellen Malcolm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bart Stupak, Abortion, Politics, Women, Womens Rights, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Health Care Reform, Reproductive Health, Healthcare Reform, Emily's List, Pro-Choice, Politics News

As Congress struggled to pass health care reform to improve the lives of America's families, anti-choice forces took advantage of the situation to mount yet another assault on abortion.

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Peace and Persuasion

Cristina Page | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, One Year Later, Politics News

Obama's goal seems to be to appeal to a reasonable group that can talk to, rather than past, each other about abortion. If he's going to succeed, he has to confront those who perceive common ground as a threat.

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The "Born Alive" Myth: Tale Turned Political Tool

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Born Alive Act, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Born Alive, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Politics News

The substitution of "baby" for "fetus" in the debate over born-alive bills is just another way for opponents of abortion to derail the abortion debate by blurring the lines between abortion and infanticide.

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Illinois Abortion Law Blocked By Judge After Earlier Clearance

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abortion, Illinois Abortion Law, Parental Notice of Abortion Act, Anti-Abortion, Abortion Notification Law, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Choice Abortion, Abortion Law, Illinois Abortion, Illinois Parental Notification Law, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's pare...

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EBay Removes Drawings That Glorify Slaying of Abortion Doctor George Tiller

Politics Daily | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro Choice, Shelley Shannon, Abortion Providers, Crime, Ebay, Anti Abortion, Abortion Doctors, Scott Roeder, Goerge Tiller, Murder, Kansas, Defense Fund, Online Auction, Auction, Pro Life, Prison Drawings, Prison Cookbook, Extremism, Politics News

EBay has removed an auction posted by supporters of Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May murder of abortionist George Tiller. The listing featur...

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Misremembering Dr. Tiller: How Law & Order Got It Wrong

Nancy Northup | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Nancy Northup, Center-for-Reproductive-Rights, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Law and Order, Dr. Tiller, Nbc, Media News

The show's recent character, Dr. Benning, provides abortions later in pregnancy, like Dr. Tiller, and was shot in his church after surviving a prior shooting, like Dr. Tiller. There the similarities end.

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What Catholics Want in Healthcare Reform

Jon O'Brien | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Catholics, Social Justice, Ethics, Contraception, Catholics for Choice, Poll, Healthcare Reform, Pro-Choice, Healthcare, Politics News

American Catholics can picture themselves as patients, and want to be able to get birth control and condoms at their doctor. They also think they can speak for themselves.

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Another GOP Swipe Against Women

Candace Straight | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republcian Party, Social Conservatives, GOP Debate, Right Wing Extremism, 2010 Election, Republican Leadership, Woman's Rights, Senate GOP, Republcian Majority for Choice, 2010, Moderate Republican, Moderates, Candace Straight, Pro-Choice, Rmc, Politics News

As a Republican, I favor limited government. But the Republican senators who voted against the anti-rape measure ignored common decency and basic human rights.

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Oklahoma Abortion Laws Forcing Women To Reveal Their Race And Relationships Spark Court Battles

AP | SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Abortion Laws, Abortion Protests, Abortion Rights, Right to Choice, Anti-Abortion, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Abortion, New Abortion Laws, Pro-Life, Abortion Court Cases, Pro-Choice, Oklahoma Abortion Laws, Politics News

OKLAHOMA CITY — Abortion rights supporters have challenged two new Oklahoma laws that would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws i...

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Pro-Life Pretense

Cristina Page | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Research Council, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Politics News

Obama's still-to-be released common ground agenda in the abortion conflict is already having a profound and largely overlooked effect: it has exposed deep fault lines in the pro-life movement.

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Stepping Up the Pressure: The Archbishop Comes to the Abortion Clinic

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Archbishop, Louisville, Kentucky, Catholics for Choice, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Jon-Obrien, Pro-Choice, Living News

Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Michael Steele, Red Mass, Supreme Court, Scalia, Justice, Ray Lahood, Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Antonin Scalia, St. Matthew Cathedral, Pro-Life, Joe Biden, John Roberts, Breyer, Biden, Cardinal DiNardo, Catholicism, Stephen Breyer, Abortion, John Carroll Society, Anti-Abortion, Sonia Sotomayor, Pro-Choice, Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Ken Salazar, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Anthony Kennedy, D.C., Catholic, Home News

WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

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Irene Vilar: Self-described "Abortion Addict" Confesses To 15 Procedures

National Post | Mary Vallis | Posted 10.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Abortion Addict, Abortion Addiction, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, New Book, Vilar, Books News

Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so extreme it would surely b...

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Is Contraception Murder?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Emergency Contraception, Contraception, Pro-Life, Condoms, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Personhood, Politics News

The protesters I spoke with in Wisconsin believe that "the morning-after pill" is the equivalent of murder. They even believe that the birth control pill is a form of murder.

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The Truth About the Capps Amendment

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hyde Amendment, Abortion, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Health Care, H. R. 3200, Lois Capps, Capps Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rep. Lois Capps, Capps Abortion Amendment, Pro-Choice, Choice, Health Care Reform Abortion, Politics News

My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.

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Sebelius: No Public Abortion Funding In Health Care Bill

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Pro-Life, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Health, Reform, Obama, Women's Rights, Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Health, Activists, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Sebelius, Health Care, Whithe House, Pro-Choice, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President Barack Obama will support barring public funding for...

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Choose Life: Was Moses Really Pro-Life or Pro-Abortion?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, New Jersey, Ronald Reagan, Boston, New York, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Choose Life License Plates, Al Gore, Moses, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Judaism, Politics News

From the "Baby Moses Law" in Texas to a pitched battle over "Choose Life" on license plates, the Bible's leading prophet has become the latest touchstone in America's hottest hot-button issue.

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