I was practically paralyzed with fear, but not so paralyzed that I couldn't wield a wine glass.
The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 03.26.2012
A Democratic state legislator in Pennsylvania called Republican women who are supporting a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to underg...
Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.22.2012
Women have rights, fetuses have rights, and states have rights. But in the case at hand, women have the right to make their extremely difficult decision in private.
Sarah Buttenwieser | Posted 05.20.2012
The question isn't about modifying a cruel law to make it less cruel when the pregnancy was hoped for; it's about abolishing laws this punitive to all women.
Posted 03.20.2012
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho--The Idaho Senate on Monday approved a measure requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound befo...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.08.2012
If you want to sign legislation that makes abortions difficult for the women of Virginia to obtain, just admit to it. But don't pick and choose who has a "right to know" what and when and why.
The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 03.08.2012
Debates over birth control and abortion have taken center stage in the states and in Congress, with Republicans in many state legislatures weighing bi...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.01.2012
Virginia lawmakers on Thursday afternoon passed a final version of a bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions, including new language making the pr...
The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.28.2012
Alabama state Sen. Clay Scofield (R) backed off a provision Monday that would have forced women to submit to transvaginal ultrasounds before getting a...
Terry O'Neill | Posted 04.28.2012
Turning the clock back includes shaming women for their sexuality and punishing them for terminating a pregnancy (which is still legal, by the way). This brings us to one of the more degrading tactics up the radical-right sleeve: mandatory ultrasound laws.
AP | CONNIE CASS | Posted 04.23.2012
WASHINGTON — First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the pres...
Carolita Johnson | Posted 04.20.2012
Don't fall asleep! ...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.16.2012
What do you call a state whose legislature in one month advances laws allowing unlimited purchases of handguns, declares the rights of personhood from the moment a sperm and egg unite and forces women seeking abortions to have an invasive, unnecessary medical procedure?
Tobias Barrington Wolff | Posted 04.16.2012
Every person who has a body should view this law as a direct assault. So, too, should every person who believes that women are human beings.
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.16.2012
A top Republican legislative leader in Virginia described abortion as a "lifestyle convenience" during the floor debate on a controversial measure to ...
Posted 01.30.2012
Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer First Published 01/29/2012 07:44 PM EST Two 15-minute tickles could be the future of...
AP | GARY D. ROBERTSON | Posted 12.25.2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge blocked part of North Carolina's new abortion law Tuesday, ruling providers do not have to place an ultrasound i...
John Backman | Posted 12.23.2011
"Becoming human" is not a scientific question but a spiritual or philosophical one. And who can answer any such question definitively?
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.25.2011
North Carolina lawmakers voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a mandatory ultrasound bill that forces abortion doctors to say certai...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.10.2011
Turns out, spending whole Saturdays watching marathons of baby Bentley on MTV might do more than just distract you from work deadlines and errands. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.14.2011
In the wake of the election of a new wave of conservative state legislators, lawmakers across the country have advanced abortion-limiting legislation ...
G. Elijah Dann | Posted 05.25.2011
The moral life isn't one where we cherry-pick our moral issues, selecting our principles where it is convenient, avoiding situations where those same moral principles become inconvenient,
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011
In Florida's House of Representatives, Rep. Janet Long opposed a bill that would require women to pay for ultrasounds before an abortion, telling adversaries: "Stand down if you don't have ovaries."
Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Hippocrates is turning over in his grave.
AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry vetoed two abortion bills Friday that he said are an unconstitutional attempt by the Legislature to ins...
Susan McCorkindale | Posted 04.23.2012