The hidden TRAP behind "Safe, Legal and Rare"
Several days ago, as she considered a follow-up to her abortion diary Abortion Rights: It's About Women, mcjoan asked some of us for suggestions about the central issues involved for physicians or...
View ArticleTEXAS ACTION: Anti-choice thugs steal $5M from poor women for CPCs
The Reichstag on the Brazos is at it again. On March 9, 2005 the Texas Senate Finance Committee voted 9-3 to deprive 33,000 low-income women in this state of the only health care services that some of...
View Article[UPDATE] TX Abortion: Women losing even the right to say "No"
Yeah, yeah, here comes moiv, fretting about abortion rights again. As half the world must know by now, Texas law already makes doctors deliver a laundry list of heavily biased misinformation to a woman...
View ArticleThe Farm Maid's Tale: Jailed for Her Own Abortion
On paper, South Carolina's stance on abortion rights places it in the middle of the pack -- no better or worse than average - but the Palmetto State is a real leader in turning its laws against the...
View ArticleTX Action TODAY: Compulsory Childbearing for Children
The only bill on the Major House Calendar for Tuesday, May 10 is Phil King's (R-Weatherford) HB 1212, the ugliest anti-family, anti-choice and anti-freedom bill to crawl out of the Texas Lege this year...
View ArticleTexas Lege: HB 1212 Dies as Its Evil Twin Is Born
This session of the Texas Legislature has seen 13 anti-choice bills introduced -- 10 in the House and 3 in the Senate. In the House, only HB 1212 even made it out to the floor. A precedent-setting...
View ArticleTx Lege: Today I Heard a Dead Man Talking
Republican Rep. Will Hartnett of Dallas: "You can live without anything but a brain." Time is ticking down for the 79th Texas Legislature, and today was the opening day of Sneaky Season, when...
View Article"Don't Tell Barbara Walters About the Voices"
God, I love PinkDome. There's no more entertaining place to keep up with what's really going on in Reichstag-on-the-Brazos (yes, y'all, I know Austin's on the Colorado, but these days I'm trying as...
View Article1 Man, 1 Woman, and Pope Ricky's Hairstylist
That's how PinkDome and In The Pink sum up the debut of the new Marriage Alliance web site, dedicated to saving the marriages of millions of innocent Texans from the Godless gay and lesbian hordes...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Storm
(Previously published at Liberal Street Fighter, also posted at My Left Wing and Booman Tribune) Hurricane season comes around every year, and it's that time again. But for anyone dedicated, courageous...
View ArticleLetters from an abortion doctor
Every summer Operation Save America takes a massive, weeklong protest to some fortunate city in America where their director, Flip Benham, leads them in "storming the gates of hell." A couple of weeks...
View ArticleDr. Hern to Dr. Dean: Dear Howard . . .
Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado--anthropologist, public health physician and specialist in abortion care--has attracted a great deal of attention by publicly exposing and denouncing the threat...
View ArticleCommuniqué from The Morning-After Pill Conspiracy
The Food and Drug Administration has now "indefinitely" put off a decision on making Plan B - also called Emergency Contraception (EC) and the Morning-After Pill -- available over-the-counter. The FDA...
View ArticleTexas OK's Death Penalty for Abortion Providers
It had to happen somewhere, sooner or later, and none of us should be surprised that it has happened first in Texas. The rabidly anti-choice mob comprising the majority of the Texas Legislature passed...
View Article12% of Congress cares about reproductive rights
Despite the near-unanimous recommendations of its own women's health experts, Bush's FDA continues to refuse over the counter sale of Plan B Emergency Contraception. Right wing propaganda engines such...
View ArticleUPDATED: The Katrina Aid That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Abortion is in the headlines this week. On Saturday jsmdlawyerdiaried Clarence Thomas' attempt to prevent an imprisoned woman in Missouri from having the abortion to which she was legally entitled,...
View Article'The Doctor Is IN!' ... and he's on the air
from Our Word OK, everybody, how about some good news for a change? If you live in Rhode Island, chances are that you already know about the impressive professional accomplishments, extensive...
View ArticleThe Last Abortion Clinic: Whistling Past the Graveyard
There's a lot of talk these days about what might happen if Roe falls, and most opinion seems to be roughly divided into two camps. A sizable contingent feels confident that the Republicans need Roe...
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Bush in Kenya: Killing Them Softly
from Our Word Live and let live? Sorry, but George W. Bush's god has other plans for your life. We have just stepped up the pace of the killing in Kenya, and in the most budget-conscious way...
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Lie About Your Abortion and Go to Jail
A couple of months ago, a Karl Rove disciple by the name of Florence Shapiro introduced Texas Senate Bill 785. Shapiro's bill required doctors to make detailed reports to the state about women who...
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