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Can you be both pro-life and a feminist?
It’s a controversial question raised by Jennifer Baumgardner in her new book, “Abortion & Life.”
By Catherine Price September 30, 2008
Your daily Palin
Planned Parenthood has 31,000 thank-you notes to send, and Bristol Palin’s wedding could be the October surprise.
By Kate Harding September 29, 2008
Paying for sterilization
Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo wants to offer poor women $1,000 to have their tubes tied.
By Kate Harding September 26, 2008
Roe plaintiff speaks out for choice
Although “Jane Roe” is now an anti-choice activist, another plaintiff in the case has no regrets.
By Kate Harding September 22, 2008
Did you just call me a zygote?
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether the state’s Constitution should define fertilized eggs as people.
By Catherine Price September 16, 2008
Palin’s choice = women’s choice?
A leading gynecologist worries that Palin provides a “detrimental and confusing” example.
By Tracy Clark-Flory September 12, 2008
Sarah Palin and the victims-pay-for-rape-kits story
One way in which Wasilla, Alaska, is not unique.
By Lynn Harris September 10, 2008
“WTF” of the day
Is there really a National Abortion Records Database?
By Nathalie Gorman September 3, 2008
Palin slashed funding for teen mothers
Just saying.
By Lynn Harris September 3, 2008
About that whole “right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy” thing
Eighty-five percent of Mexico City’s doctors have declared themselves “conscientious objectors” to a law guaranteeing women the right to have an abortion.
By Catherine Price August 26, 2008
HHS: Doctors can refuse abortions
A new proposal defends “health care provider conscience.”
By Tracy Clark-Flory August 21, 2008
In California, docs can’t say, “Sorry, you’re gay”
In a final decision on a 1999 lawsuit, the state Supreme Court rules that antidiscrimination law trumps “religious freedom.”
By Lynn Harris August 20, 2008
A softer line on abortion
Could an addition to the Democrats’ platform on reproductive rights help court evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics?
By Catherine Price August 14, 2008
HHS: Fear not for your birth control!
Mike Leavitt swears he isn’t attempting to redefine abortion as birth control.
By Tracy Clark-Flory August 11, 2008
Why don’t we have a male pill yet?
Drug companies think there’s no market for male hormonal contraception — even though their own data suggests otherwise.
By Kate Harding August 8, 2008
“The View” from here? Bleak
Please don’t let morning show co-host Sherri Shepherd become the public face of abortion.
By Jessica Wakeman July 24, 2008
O’Really?
The latest comments from Bill O’Reilly that make us want to vomit on ourselves.
By Catherine Price July 22, 2008
On the ballot this November: Obama, McCain and a definition of when life begins
In a nationwide first, Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether a fertilized human egg should be defined as a person.
By Catherine Price July 15, 2008
Pregnant pause
John McCain’s response to the question: Is it fair that insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control?
By Sarah Hepola July 10, 2008
Obama and late-term abortion
An addendum to “Are Democrats Backpedaling on Abortion Rights?”
By Frances Kissling July 8, 2008
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