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Exclusive: Key conservatives behind S. Dakota’s abortion law appear clueless...
Abortion is already a heavily regulated medical procedure, but Republicans in South Dakota are poised to mandate the harshest regulations of any state yet, including a requirement that women visit an...
View ArticleAbstinence foundation paid Bristol Palin $262K, spent little on prevention...
Tax documents reveal that an anti-teen pregnancy foundation paid Bristol Palin seven times what it spent on actual teen pregnancy prevention programs. Bristol Palin, the 20-year-old daughter of former...
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The obliviousness of our conservative dudely leaders
Posted at Think Progress: During the House’s debate, Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican who supports the bill, told [Bollier]: “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?” Bollier asked him,...
View ArticleDear GOP: You do know how pregnancy works, right?
In light of ABLC’s move to Raw Story, I decided to re-up a couple of posts for our new readers. This is the second of those posts. I have been pregnant four times. These pregnancies led to the...
View ArticleAbortion seekers ‘seven times’ more likely to be abused
CHICAGO — Women seeking an abortion are seven times more likely to report physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their partners than the US national average for domestic violence, a study published...
View ArticleReporters grill GOP Senate hopeful for comparing out-of-wedlock pregnancy to...
Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith (PA) was grilled by reporters on Monday after he appeared to compare out-of-wedlock pregnancy to rape, but then quickly and repeatedly denied the analogy....
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The theology behind Mourdock’s ‘gift from God’ pregnancy after rape remark
Richard Mourdock: the theology behind his rape comments (via The Christian Science Monitor) When Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock this week spoke provocatively of rape-induced...
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Plan B Is OTC: Let’s Get Started On Those Sex Cults
I saw the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon stampeding down the street last night, and immediately I knew what had happened. (But I did go online to verify.) The Obama...
View ArticleArizona Rep. Franks invokes Akin: ‘The incidence of rape resulting in...
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) was criticized by congressional colleagues on Wednesday after arguing that pregnancies resulting from rape rarely occur, the Washington Post reported. “When my friends on the...
View ArticleHouse Republicans schedule anti-abortion bill instead of pregnancy fairness...
As House Republicans vote on a federal ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy on Tuesday, federal laws and regulations that would offer greater protections to pregnant women languish. The...
View ArticleYeah, But Stabbing Me In The Face Was Okay Because It Was Cute
Every year, thousands of women have pregnancies which result in terminally ill children being born, many of those children’s lives doomed to last no more than a few hours – or minutes – at most. They...
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Wingnut outrage, but over what she doesn’t even know
Thanks to Sir Charles for pointing me to this hilarious spaz of an op-ed by Kathleen Parker. If you really want to understand the wingnut mind, you have to really, truly understand that male power over...
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Male pregnancy and abortion: The sex life of pipefish
PARIS — A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant. The fish is a close cousin of the seahorse and sea...
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Taxpayers fund video game that teaches girls how not to score
Ever wish there were a video game where the point is to score as little as possible? If so, well, the Obama administration just may have several hundred thousand dollars for you. The University of...
View ArticleEpilepsy drug has long-term effect on child IQ: study
A drug found to affect the cognitive ability of toddlers born to women who took the medication for epilepsy has a longer-term impact on their IQ, a study said on Wednesday. Researchers in the United...
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Plan B Is OTC: Let’s Get Started On Those Sex Cults
I saw the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon stampeding down the street last night, and immediately I knew what had happened. (But I did go online to verify.) The Obama...
View ArticleBristol Palin outraged over girls receiving free birth control
You’d think that someone who had her first child as a teenager and then managed to get pregnant again by someone else out of wedlock would be a staunch supporter of birth control. But Bristol Palin...
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