Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now
Enter the lawyers.
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Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement
What Akin says about the state of the GOP on abortion and contraception.
Read MoreRepublicans for Choice Chair: Akin “Helpful for Us”
Current draft of abortion plank does not endorse personhood.
Read MorePersonhood USA says Romney would Permit “Death Penalty” for “Babies Conceived in Rape”
Says they hoped Ryan would have been “good influence.”
Read MoreThe Theological Roots of Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment
The Senate candidate is proud of how his Masters in Divinity shaped his politics.
Read MoreHearts and (Versus?) Minds: Bachmann’s Ultrasound Bill
Why she has placed the heartbeat center stage.
Read MoreIowans for Life Denies Being Behind Anti-Gingrich Flyers
Flyers describe Gingrich as “pro-life fraud.”
Read MoreGingrich Signs Personhood USA Pledge
Opts for most radical definition of fetal personhood.
Read MoreGingrich on “Teh Gay”
Newt Gingrich seems to be getting his conservative Christian credentials all locked up.
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Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked
On July 2, still glowing from the national media spotlight, Personhood USA issued a press release, “Personhood Leaders Suffer Violent Attacks From Pro-Abortion Terrorists Following Newsweek Feature,” with photos and description of shattered front-door glass, spray-painted coat hangers and “F— You” with a backward F across the front of their Denver-suburb house. The release said the Newsweek profile led to physical threats and the posting of the Masons’ home address in comments—and implicated The Daily Beast’s “notoriously liberal” readers and “pro-choice criminals” in the alleged vandalism.