“Gotcha” Video & Pro-Life Bill Released Together
The bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion may be doomed but passage isn’t the point.
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Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby
Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror flick—among others in the ’60s and ’70s—may provide some surprising insights into the GOP’s “War on Women.”
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Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?
Anti-abortion news and opinion websites have taken to calling Chinese dissident Guangcheng Chen “pro-life,” which is fundamentally misleading. Chen is not opposed to abortion, per se, he’s opposed to forced abortion.
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A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion
This spring, workers at Planned Parenthood began to notice a flurry of visits from women asking very pointedly if they could use the women’s health organization’s services to abort a child based on gender. What’s the aim of these hoax visits? Support for PRENDA, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, a bill currently making its way through Congress.
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We Are All Nuns
When it comes to the Vatican’s crackdown on women religious, I believe it’s time to declare that for the purpose of this struggle: we are all nuns.
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Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill
A power struggle between personhood lobby and the Republican leadership?
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Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative
King’s fundamentally religious message of the requirements of justice have been confused, or perhaps deliberately distorted, by those who want to claim his support for their cause.
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Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies
Not everyone on the religious right believes that Lila Rose is acting out God’s will, let alone laying down her life. After all, Lila Rose lies in order to get the footage she seeks.
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Apoplectic about Abortion: One Woman’s Emotional Roller Coaster
I used to be angry, now I am apoplectic. I also used to be fraulein and now I am a frau. I used to be a mademoiselle and now I am madame, a señorita and now a señora. In other words, I am a mature woman whose human rights are vanishing before her very eyes. For a long time, I have become habituated to freedom, confusing myself, apparently, with a human being—or even a man. I don’t like it when Congress treats me like a girl by hacking away at abortion rights and talking about eliminating funds for family planning.
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Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception
The number of those who believe that rape survivors should have to carry a pregnancy to term is rising, though scrutiny of the position reveals it to be cruel and extremist.
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