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Bush HHS Tries an End Run on Abstinence-Only Funding

Scott Swenson | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Advocates for Youth, Robert W. Patterson, Congress, Abstinence Only, Bill Smith, George W. Bush, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Marcela Howell, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Sex, Siecus, Politics News

Last week the Bush Administration issued a letter waiving the annual application process and review for the Title V Abstinence-Only State Grant Program.

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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

Cristina Page | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Contraception, Hhs, Medicaid, Pro-Life, Refusal Clause, Pro-Choice, Title X, Leavitt, Politics News

Health and Human Services now proposes that anyone can enforce his or her own definition of abortion "within the bounds of reason." And, it would seem the bounds are pretty far flung.

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Where Is Obama's Truth on Late Term Abortion?

Amie Newman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Abortion, Barack Obama 2008, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Federal Abortion Ban, Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Health, Pro-Choice, Contraception, Christian Right, Barack Obama, Partial Birth Abortion, Politics News

The "partial birth abortion" debate is an utterly pointless distraction, and Obama has completely played into the hands of the anti-choice organizations who want only to entrap him in political sport.

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Family Research Council Attacks Obama on Life Starting at Conception

Scott Swenson | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Research Council, Sex-Ed, Abstinence-Only, Contraception, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Tony Perkins, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Family Research Council is distracting the debate about serious issues in this country to focus on the one issue they need to have front and center in order to turn out their base supporters: abortion.

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Rev. Jim Wallis Needs a Reality Check on Abortion Reduction Plank

Scott Swenson | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Democratic Platform, Rev. Jim Wallis, Abstinence-Only, Contraception, GOP Platform, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Sex Education, Barack Obama, Politics News

Instead of picking a fight with the left, Wallis should be asking why it is the far-right gets away with opposing common sense education and prevention ideas.

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Cashiers for Life

Cristina Page | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmacist Refusals, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Will Saletan, Pharmacists for Life, Contraception, Pro-Life, Slate, Pro-Choice, Politics News

William Saletan, the Slate columnist whose made a career of claiming to be pro-choice while justifying attacks on reproductive rights, has had yet another epiphany.

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Obama: The Real Pro-Life Candidate

Cristina Page | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abstinence-Only, Abortion, Contraception, Mccain, Obama, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Sex-Ed, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain and the "pro-lifers" may have sanctimony on their side, but that has proven ineffective at preventing abortion. Obama has the opportunity to go on the offensive and change the debate.

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The Anti-Family Planning Movement: Coming to a Bedroom Nearest You

Cristina Page | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, American Life League, Birth Control, Contraception, Pharmacists for Life, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Life, Pill Kills, Pro-Choice, Griswold, Politics News

Buoyed by their success in rolling back abortion rights, anti-choice groups seek nothing less than a complete American lifestyle makeover: sex can't ever exclude the possibility of procreation.

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Anti-Abortion Protesters Block the Liberty Bell

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Protests, Pro-Life, Memorial Day, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Washington, Living News

My children, ages six and eight, don't know about the birds and the bees. But now they know about abortion.

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The Pro Teen Sex and Unwanted Pregnancy Movement

Cristina Page | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Pregnancy, Teen, Religious Right, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Sex, Politics News

Turns out that to be "pro-life" is to be pro-your-young-teen-having-a-risky -sex-life. In addition, the states that are witnessing the biggest drop in teen pregnancies are the most solidly pro-choice.

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Pass It On: 75% of Pro-Choice Voters Need to Know the Truth -- John McCain Does Not Support a Woman's Right to Choose

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain 2008, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Abortion, John McCain Against Abortion, John McCain Abortion, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, John McCain Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election, Sex Education, Emergency Contraception, 2008 Election and Abortion, 2008 Election and Reproductive Rights, John McCain Anti-Choice, Abortion Laws, Morning After Pill, Anti-Choice, John McCain Pro-Life, Politics News

McCain's record is really, really anti-choice. Not only anti-choice, but anti-sex ed, anti-emergency contraception, and anti-women.

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Late-Night Wins for Pro-Choice Americans

Nancy Keenan | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Wayne Allard, Fetus, Reproductive Rights, Pro-Choice Movement, Pro-Life, Pro-Lifers, Fetus SCHIP, Choice, Embryos, John Ensign, Child Custody Protection Act, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Fetus Personhood, Schip, Politics News

Last night, the Senate rejected two anti-choice amendments, but the razor-thin margin by which we won these votes is a reminder of why elections matter.

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The McModerate

Cristina Page | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Contraception, Tom Coburn, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Reproductive Rights, John McCain Abortion, John McCain, John McCain Reproductive Rights, Abstinence, Pro-Lifers, 2008 Election, Sexuality, 2008 Election and Abortion, John McCain Tom Coburn, Abstinence Education, Anti-Choice, Condoms, Politics News

Iraq is not the only unpopular war Bush started that McCain hopes to continue. The war on Americans' sex lives is another and McCain has already proven himself a good, loyal general.

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The Best Candidate for Choice

Frances Kissling | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Abortion, Abortion, Feminist, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Hyde Amendment, Hillary Clinton Abortion, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, Barack Obama Endorsements, Feminism, 2008 Election, Sex Education, Abortion and Religion, Barack Obama, Emergency Contraception, 2008 Election and Abortion, Religion, Unfpa, Morning After Pill, Religion and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Anti-Choice, Global Gag Rule, Pro-Choice, Politics News

I fully expect that whichever of the two, Obama or Clinton, become president, I will be fighting with them for more on reproductive rights than either is ready to give.

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Why I'm Pro-life and Pro-Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

If our highest aspiration is to be a consumer with no thought or care for our neighbor, we will remain a culture in which abortion is not only inevitable but logical.

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Choose Some Other License Plate

Stephanie Losee | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Abortion Debate, Specialty License Plates, Choose Life, Abortion, Abortion Laws, Abortion Rights, Politics News

I have a suggestion for Choose Life, which encourage girls with unwanted pregnancies to give up their babies for adoption. Choose this: Bumper stickers.

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"Jane Roe" Endorses Ron Paul For President

MSNBC | Gabe Herman | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Ron Paul, 2008 Campaign, 2008 Elections, Jane Roe, Pro-Life, Ron Paul and Jane Roe, Anti-Abrotion, Politics News

On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. "Jane Roe," who later changed her views on abortion in the mid...

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Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?

Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Global Gag Rule, Abortion Laws, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Mexico City Policy, Global Gag Rule, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choice, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Politics News

Planning your family -- or planning not to have a family. Whose choice is it?

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Roe v. Wade Awakening

Marissa Miley | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Juno, Suffrage, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choice, Roe IQ Test, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Roeiqtest, Politics News

Noticeably absent from the RoeIQtest.com survey are questions about women's health, quality of life, and privacy -- all things that Roe vs. Wade ensured.

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Kids: The New Voice In The Abortion Debate

LA Times | Stephanie Simon | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Pro-Life, Children Against Abortion, Pro-Lifers, Abortion Debate, Pro-Life Children, Living News

The bell rang and the eighth graders jumped up, eager to compare notes. "I named my baby Kyle Patrick," one shouted. "Mine is Antonio!" At the urgi...

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How Can the Richest Country in the World Deal With the Issue of Teen Pregnancy?

Maria Kefalas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

When you look at the rest of the world where teenage childbearing has become a problem of another time, it is maddening to see policymakers in the U.S. so perplexed.

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10 Reasons to Support Reproductive Justice on Roe Day

Jill Filipovic | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Illegal Abortions, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Morning After Pill, Contraception, Birth Control, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Lifers, Pro-Choice, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Politics News

Roe at 35 is in bad shape. But there are plenty of forward-looking, positive steps to be taken.

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What the Huck?

Cristina Page | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Romney, Contraception, Mccain, Birth Control, Roe v Wade, Pro-Life, Human Life Amendment, Pro-Choice, Huckabee, Georgia, Morning After Pill, Roe vs Wade 35 Anniversary, Politics News

Those set on overturning Roe have their eyes on a larger prize: banning contraception. And they've got the support of at least one leading presidential contender.

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Family Planning is Family Values

Cristina Page | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Abortion Laws, Family Values, Sex, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Religious Right, Anti-Choice, Birth Control, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Anti-Choice Movement, Politics News

Sadly, if most Americans credit the pro-choice birth control movement for anything, it's for the dubious honor of protecting vice.

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The Dog Whistlers: The One Question the "Pro-life" Presidential Candidates Don't Want You to Ask

Cristina Page | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Republican Presidential Candidate, Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Pro-Life, Roe vs Wade, Pro-Lifers, 2008 Election Reproductive Rights, 2008 Election, Birth Control Pill, 2008 Election and Abortion, Abortion Laws, Republican Debates, Contraception, Anti-Choice, Birth Control, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Republicans, Republicans, Politics News

The most pro-life thing a president can do is support the right to use contraception and make it widely available.

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