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The ring, adoptions and cosmetic surgery
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles about returning an engagement ring, Florida adoption law and a hippie chick's face-lift.
Taxpayer-funded lies
Michelle Goldberg
Antiabortion groups use "crisis-pregnancy centers" to scare women out of having abortions. Some lawmakers have cracked down on them. President Bush increased their federal funding.
GOP poster boy goes bust
Tim Grieve
Mired in scandal, California businessman Bill Simon is losing a can't-lose race against Gov. Gray Davis. For the Bush White House, that's a problem.
Trial by public humiliation
Janelle Brown
Some birth mothers in Florida must publish their sexual histories in local newspapers if they wish to place their child for private adoption.
The “shame” of rape
Margot Magowan
Why does the media hide rape victims who fight back instead of honoring them as heroes?
The morally bankrupt Congress
Robert Scheer
With its support of a new bankruptcy bill, Congress is once again doing the bidding of the financial industry.
Fundamentally unsound
Michelle Goldberg
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
Sex with minors and ending pregnancy
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles about sex between teenage boys and older men, late-term abortion and the reduction in doctors trained to perform abortions.
Ignorance is no excuse
Fran Smith
Few doctors learn how to perform abortions, and women pay for their lack of training. New York City is taking steps to reverse the trend.
Owen’s fate is in Feinstein’s hands
Anthony York
Demos charge Bush's choice for the 5th Circuit is an extremist; the GOP calls her opponents sexist. The tiebreaker will go to the senior senator from California.
A doctor’s right to choose
Margaret A. Woodbury
Two surgical options for late-term abortion may be reduced to one if antiabortion activists, with help from the Bush administration, get their way.
A $34 million “political payoff”
Michelle Goldberg
President Bush's decision to gut U.N. family-planning funds will appease right-wing hard-liners -- at a cost of thousands of lives.
The battle over Bush’s judges
Michelle Goldberg
Liberals are mobilizing to fight antiabortion zealot Priscilla Owen's nomination to the Court of Appeals, but there's a long list of pro-life nominees queued up behind her.
One fishy argument
David Horowitz
Redoubtable sophist Stanley Fish rushes to the aid of professors who attacked America after 9/11, as though they're in any danger in left-wing academia.
Bush stonewalls release of family-planning study
Michelle Goldberg
A State Department team investigated oft-refuted charges raised by a far-right group that a U.N. family-planning agency abetted forced abortions in China. But Bush won't release the study -- or $34 million in aid.
A kinder, gentler militia?
Dan Laidman
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, fringe militia organizations are recasting themselves as neighborhood watch groups. But old ways die hard.
When right-wing fembots attack
Charles Taylor
Ann Coulter dishes out a fresh bookful of hypocrisy, distortion and half-crazed rants. Can't conservatives find a better champion than this?
A radical antiabortionist backs down
Frederick Clarkson
Feeling the heat not just from the courts but from mainstream pro-lifers, Nuremberg Files Web site creator Neal Horsley takes down the crossed-off names of doctors killed by antiabortion zealots.
Bob Barr’s emotional distress
Anthony York
Clinton's most ardent foe sues him for $30 million -- while championing a bill against frivolous lawsuits.
The zealots behind President Bush’s U.N. family planning sellout
Michelle Goldberg
A small band of antiabortion extremists says the U.N. agency supports Chinese infanticide. The rest of the world says they're wrong, but the White House is listening.
Should I stay or should I go?
Cary Tennis
I want to divorce my wife, but she just got pregnant. Should I still move on or stay for the baby's sake?
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