Christian Doctor Explains Why He Performs Abortions
Willie J. Parker, an obstetrician based in Washington, D.C., didn't always perform abortions. He's a Christian from Birmingham, Ala., who initially re...
Willie J. Parker, an obstetrician based in Washington, D.C., didn't always perform abortions. He's a Christian from Birmingham, Ala., who initially re...
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 05.21.2012
After being raped by two men when I was just fifteen years old, I understand the value of choice. Maybe that's because I never had one. The trauma I e...
Uloop | Posted 05.18.2012
Annually, all over the country thousands of pro-lifers gather together at Walk for Life to raise money and awareness for local pregnancy centers.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012
Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?
Bob Cesca | Posted 04.18.2012
Ultimately, conservatives have totally missed the reasonable position regarding abortion. Instead of banning choice, conservatives should be making it easier for women to choose "life."
Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.18.2012
The Liberty Counsel has established that the "pro-life" position is "pro-punishment," not just for doctors who perform abortions, but also for pregnant women who have no intention of ending their pregnancies and go to term.
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON — Dick Retta stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Washington three days a week, trying to persuade pregnant women n...
Laura Trice | Posted 05.26.2012
If men guarded their sperm like $100 bills, only sharing it with a trusted, responsible, cherished woman whom they really loved and cared about, abortion would be a non-issue.
David Morris | Posted 05.14.2012
Recent events make clear the need for a new language to describe the raging debate about sex and birth. Consider the problematic word that dominates our conversation: pro-life.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.07.2012
Given that the number of unborn is currently unknown, it could reach the trillions -- or gazillions -- and should all those unborn give their grateful loyalty upon birth (should it occur) to the religious far right, the Republican Party could overwhelm elections through eternity.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 05.03.2012
I believe Jesus wants a world where people of all faiths use their talents so we have clean water, unpolluted air, and fish we can eat.
Mollie Reilly | Posted 02.22.2012
A group of female Democratic legislators in the Georgia House of Representatives has proposed a bill that would ban men from seeking vasectomies. "...
AP | SEAN MURPHY | Posted 02.16.2012
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly approved an anti-abortion "personhood" bill that declares life begins at conception. The vote...
Mark Olmsted | Posted 04.11.2012
When is America going to stop fetishizing a document written by rich white men 230 years ago who owned slaves and didn't think woman were worthy of the vote?
Robin Koerner | Posted 04.08.2012
Paul's pro-life views are personal. The country needs to understand that a leader can hold a view fervently without having to impose it on the country as national policy.
Death Race | Posted 04.03.2012
Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson are considered boutique candidates, dismissed by the Republican party. And yet when you consider the level of crazytalk that has pervaded the Republican nominating contest, it becomes apparent the only thing keeping them from recognition is money.
Carl Gibson | Posted 04.01.2012
For two men who campaigned on getting government out of the lives of private citizens, it's incredibly hypocritical to oppose a woman's right to do what she wants to with her own uterus.
Posted 01.25.2012
The number of abortions performed in Illinois fell to a 37 year low in 2010, according to new data from the Illinois Department of Public Health. ...
The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 01.27.2012
A majority of Latino voters -- 74 percent -- agree that a woman has a right to make her own personal decisions about abortion without the interference...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 01.24.2012
The Roe v. Wade decision protecting the right to have an abortion was handed down from the Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973. On Monday night, 39 years l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.23.2012
Nearly 40 years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, forces on both sides of the contentious issue l...
Marianne Mollmann | Posted 03.24.2012
Abortion is a medical intervention three out of ten women in the United States will have needed by the time they are 45. Imposing undue burdens on access is an affront to us all.
Martha Burk | Posted 03.21.2012
The case was argued by a 27-year-old female lawyer from Texas -- Sarah Weddington. Female lawyers were so rare in those days that the Supreme Court lawyers' lounge didn't even have a ladies room. There were no female judges. Weddington faced a wall of older men.
James Heffernan | Posted 03.12.2012
Now that Christmas is behind us and the next major election is less than ten months off, 'tis the season to be fighting. And President Obama himself has just scored the first punch of the new year.
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- The intensity of Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Texas) pro-life beliefs was questioned by fellow conservatives Monday evening, when the group Person...
nj.com | Posted 05.27.2012