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Shocked -- Or Not? New Data Shows Abortion Quite Common In Most Red States

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.

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Rumble in Little Rhody: Patrick Kennedy Takes On The Bishop And The Church's Moral Myopia

Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Health Care Reform, Abortion, Catholic Church, Rhode Island, Patrick Kennedy Communion, Separation of Church and State, Pro Choice Politicians, Patrick Kennedy, Providence Bishop Tobin, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

Providence Bishop Tobin's barring Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion is an assault on the separation of church and state now enshrined in the First Amendment and the Kennedy legacy itself.

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Reform...at What Cost?

Susan Bevan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Moderates, Republican-Majority-for-Choice, Abortion Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Anti-Abortion, U.S. House of Representatives, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News
Susan Bevan

Like it or not, abortion is a legal medical procedure and a decision that has to be left to doctors and families. Why are women being singled out and denied coverage, even through private plans?

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Another Look at Stupak-Pitts

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats Health Care Reform, Health Care Bill, Stupak Pro-Choice, Stupak-Pitts Amendment, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Lanny Davis

Stupak amendment supporters should support a proposal that requires that at least one insurance policy on a state exchange include abortion coverage so long as another, identical policy does not include abortion coverage.

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Ryan Grim

Read The Abortion Compromise In Harry Reid's Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Women's Rights, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Read Senate Abortion Health Bill, Read Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Abortion Language, Senate Health Care Reform Bill, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...

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Truth Is Indeed One of the First Casualties of War

Jon O'Brien | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pro Choice, Catholics, Abortion, Catholics for Choice, Pro-Choice, Jim Wallis, Abortion Rights, Politics News
Jon O'Brien

Despite his carefully nuanced positions, we know that Jim Wallis is anti-choice and opposes access to comprehensive reproductive health services for women.

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Harvard Stands Up to Stupak

Leah Reis-Dennis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bart Stupak, Abortion, Harvard Students for Choice, Grassroots Politics, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Stupak Amendmant, Politics News
Leah Reis-Dennis

Watch out, America's politicians, students are back on the streets. We voted last year because of Obama, and you have just given us a reason to vote next year.

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The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak, Reproductive Rights, Birth, Pro Choice, Catholicism, Children, Pregnancy, Catholic Bishops, Pro-Life, Babies, Catholics, Religion, Morality, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Spirituality, Politics News
Valerie Tarico

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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And Once Again, It's Abortion

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, H.R. 3962, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Hyde Amendment, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Politics News
Vanessa Carmichael

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive health care plan for the United States -- a plan that will cover 96% of Americans. That is a victory for women.

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

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

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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
Melinda Warner

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
Lanny Davis

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

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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 11.19.2009 | 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
Reproductive Justice

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
Rep. Diana DeGette

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

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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
Eleanor Smeal

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
Ellen Malcolm

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
Cristina Page

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
Reproductive Justice

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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