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The president, his party and the public’s priorities
Tim Grieve
One of these things is not like the others.
Misunderstood misoprostol
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
Cheap drug could prevent millions of deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, but governments are skittish to embrace it because it also can induce abortions.
Move over South Dakota
Katharine Mieszkowski
The Louisiana governor says she'd sign an abortion ban if it crossed her desk.
Stolen thunder
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
Sioux leader, who planned to start abortion clinic on Indian land in South Dakota, suspended by tribal council.
The Blogfather
Michael Scherer
Netroots guru Jerome Armstrong says he's a freethinking pragmatist. But lefty bloggers say his backing of centrist Mark Warner shows he's become just another political consultant.
What else we’re reading
Lynn Harris
Female vets, lesbian superheroes, South Dakota signatures and more.
Abortion is a key issue in Colombian elections
Sarah Goldstein
The recent lifting of the nation's abortion ban has brought women's health issues into the political mainstream.
Fiddling while the earth burns
Walter Shapiro
America's political system is not set up to tackle vast, seemingly abstract problems that require immediate sacrifice.
Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child
Lynn Harris
Saying no to "timeouts," some fundamentalist Christians "train up" their children by carefully hitting them with switches, PVC pipes and other "chastening instruments."
Hillary’s sex life, Frist’s gorilla surgery and Christopher Dodd
Tim Grieve
The mainstream media has its priorities.
What else we’re reading
Page Rockwell
Progress on the Louisiana abortion ban and the federal same-sex marriage ban. On the bright side, fun facts about evolution and a dress lets you inflate your own boobs.
The GOP begins to implode
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush's immigration speech was a desperate attempt to keep his delicate coalition together -- but all it did was accelerate its shattering.
What happens when your country isn’t weird about sex?
Lynn Harris
European teens are far from abstinent, but their rates of pregnancy and STDs are much lower than ours. Hmm.
Charges in self-induced-abortion case dropped
Sarah Goldstein
Virginia judge dismisses charges against the woman who shot herself in the abdomen to induce an abortion.
“Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism”
Michelle Goldberg
Across the United States, religious activists are organizing to establish an American theocracy. A frightening look inside the growing right-wing movement.
Dithering as usual at the FDA
Page Rockwell
A conference on safety concerns regarding the abortifacient Mifeprex yields more questions and no answers.
The children they gave away
Sarah Karnasiewicz
In the decades between World War II and Roe v. Wade, 1.5 million young women were secretly sent to homes for unwed mothers and coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. Now their stories are finally being told.
Carving out middle ground, or caving in to the enemy?
Lynn Harris
Legislators and womens advocates continue to shake hands across the aisle.
Onion: New drug terminates pregnant women, saves unborn children
Lynn Harris
UR-86 is intended for occasions when the mind-set or politics of the mother threaten the life of the fetus.
Medicaid and abortion
Lynn Harris
Why we must step in where supposedly comprehensive health services leave off.
You’ve regressed a long way, baby
Rebecca Traister
An Op-Ed questions whether women "deserve" to vote.
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