As the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell enters its ninth day of jury deliberations, a new Gallup poll reveals that the sordid story of the horrifying conditions at his clinic—where prosecutors say four babies were killed by sniping their spinal cords after they were born—hasn’t caused the public to become more anti-abortion. In fact, [...]
Rural Women Seeking Family Planning Face Obstacles, Judgment
April 2, 2013 | Posted by
Women living in urban areas may take for granted their relatively easy access to family planning services that provide information and ways to freely determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children. For women in rural areas, the picture can be very different. Recent research in rural Victoria, Australia, found these women face extra [...]
Black Pro-Life Groups to Protest at NAACP Image Awards Show
February 1, 2013 | Posted by
Friday night’s 44th annual NAACP Image Awards will bring together the nation’s prominent black artists in film, literature, music and television, but a group of African-American pro-life protestors have pledged they will also be in attendance. A coalition of organizations upset with the NAACP’s stance on abortion plans to protest the event in Los Angeles [...]
Indiana Republican Mourdock: If Rape Victims Get Pregnant, It’s God’s Will
October 24, 2012 | Posted by
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in a debate last night just may have staked out the most extreme social policy his party has seen in a long time, suggesting that women who get pregnant from a rape should still be forced to deliver a baby because it’s “something that God intended to happen.” Mourdock, a [...]
Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up
October 12, 2012 | Posted by
Mitt Romney fought hard throughout the Republican primaries to prove that he was conservative enough to satisfy the far right wing of the GOP. But coming off his performance in the first debate against President Obama where he mitigated and modified nearly everything in his plan and the Republican Party platform, conservatives are raising questions [...]
UN Body Asks Jamaica To Make Some Exceptions For Abortion
October 1, 2012 | Posted by
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has asked Jamaica to reconsider criminalizing abortion in cases where a pregnancy is a result of a rape or incest or in cases where it poses a threat to a mother’s health and life. Abortion is currently a criminal act under sections 72 [...]
Presidential Election Could Have Long Term Effect on Supreme Court
September 30, 2012 | Posted by
This year’s presidential election could have an impact on the path of the Supreme Court that will last much longer than the upcoming term. Currently, the country’s highest court is evenly divided; four liberal judges reflecting the main interests of Democrats, four Republican appointed judges reflecting conservative interests, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy representing the [...]
Rep. Paul Ryan’s Views on Abortion Just as Dangerous as Akin’s
August 29, 2012 | Posted by
If you thought Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin was out of line when he said women were unlikely to get pregnant from “legitimate rape,” wait until you hear what presumptive vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has to say on the subject. In an interview, Ryan said that he agreed with other Missouri Republicans that [...]
Missouri Rep. Claims ‘Legitimate Rape’ Rarely Leads to Pregnancy
August 19, 2012 | Posted by
A Republican Senate hopeful sparked outrage on Sunday by suggesting that “legitimate rape” rarely results in pregnancy due to a woman’s biological defenses. Todd Akin, a member of the House of Representatives and recently appointed Senate nominee for Missouri, made the claim during an interview in which he attempted to explain his no-exceptions policy in [...]
Blacks and Hispanics Confuse About ‘Pro-Life’ and ‘Pro-Choice’?
July 29, 2012 | Posted by
A majority of African Americans believe that abortion is morally wrong but still think it should be legally available. According to a poll of blacks and Hispanics conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. Hispanics on the other hand had a closer correlation between their views of abortion’s morality and its legal status. A total [...]
