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November 2020

November 30, 2020

Well, which is it? Airing some double standards.

Sabatini's comments are in line with a bizarre celebration of violence that is so often...

November 10, 2020

If You’re Going to Force Women to Be Pregnant, At Least Compensate Them

I have half a mind to start a fake anti-abortion online presence dedicated to the...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

This Was Always the Endgame

In the intervening four years, white evangelicals have become entranced with Trump's anti-immigrant sentiment, his...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

“Pro-Life” Lt. Gov: “There are more important things than living”

Does Patrick know the economic consequences an unplanned pregnancy has on a woman? Because those...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Some Catholics Issue a Call to Contagion–and Death

When COVID-19 spreads through churches, it doesn't stay in those churches. Newly infected parishioners go...

March 24, 2020

Abortion Opponents: Is Saving Lives Worth the Disruption?

Conservatives like Ashbach are getting the smallest taste of what it's like to face an...

March 19, 2020

No, There Was NOT Abortion Funding In the Coronavirus Bill

These "exclusive" Daily Caller interviews with senior White House officials started rumors that the coronavirus...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

On Answers in Genesis’ Woefully Misplaced Priorities

But no! Answers in Genesis isn't concerned about ensuring that world policies relative to population...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Yep, Restricting Birth Control Access Will TOTALLY End Abortion

There's another problem. Title X funds are no longer available to any clinic or center...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

It Was Never about a Fetal Heartbeat

If abortion opponents were to get abortion banned from the sixth week of pregnancy across...

July 02, 2019

When Pro-Life Policies Actually Raise the Abortion Rate

I've been writing for years that the most effective way to reduce the number of...

June 2019

June 03, 2019

From One Trap to Another: Why Conservatives Still Can’t Talk about Women and Abortion

Wheatley seems to think he's woke. He realizes, he says, that women often feel like...

May 2019

May 23, 2019

Georgia: Embryos in a woman are legal persons; Embryos in a petri dish are not

This is why some pro-choice activists have argued that those opposed to abortion access should...

May 09, 2019

That Georgia Heartbeat Bill Is Worse Than You Think

The very idea that a legal person could inhabit the body of another legal person...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

The White House Sacrifice War Rape Victims on the Altar of Abortion

Well this is horrifying. A U.S. threat to veto U.N. Security Council action on sexual...

March 2019

March 12, 2019

Not Dead Yet: The Right Plays Chicken with Women’s Lives

Women's health ought to be a place everyone can come together. We're not talking about...

March 11, 2019

Born Alive Abortion Survivors: Parsing Fact from Fiction

Last week, a friend sent me an article bearing the headline They Are Real: Meet...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

What’s Going on with the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

But those on the Right weren't interested in recognizing any of this complexity. They didn't...

February 14, 2019

What’s Really Behind Opposition to Abortion?

Those who oppose abortion also tend to hold traditional gender ideals. They see the home...

December 2018

December 10, 2018

What’s Behind the Supreme Court’s Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding

The existence of a split circuit makes the Supreme Court's decision not to take the...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Argentina Almost Legalized Abortion (and Why That Matters Here)

The movement for abortion access in Argentina ultimately lost this round---after passing their House, a...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

Thoughts on Becerra: Do Women Have No Right to Truth in Advertising?

As the NPR commentators explained, the argument turned on speech issues---requiring crisis pregnancy centers to...

July 05, 2018

Portrait of a Modern Crisis Pregnancy Center

First Care may be able to erase its connection to Cobb Pregnancy Center and keep...

July 03, 2018

Have Crisis Pregnancy Centers Morphed into Substandard Medical Clinics?

In other words, anti-abortion pregnancy clinics are no longer simply masquerading as abortion clinics. They're...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is Pushing an Anti-Abortion Agenda on Undocumented Teens

Lloyd flew across the country to talk a teen out of an abortion; the teen...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Opposing Abortion and Stigmatizing Single Motherhood

If abortion opponents' only concern were preventing abortions, supporting and destigmatizing single mothers would seem...

January 22, 2018

States May Block Planned Parenthood Funding “to Protect Medicaid Programs and Their Beneficiaries”

To protect Medicaid programs. What does that mean? No, really---in what way is giving recipients...

August 2017

August 10, 2017

Abortion Opponents on Birth Control: Coincidence or Patriarchy?

Consider: What do condoms, diaphragms, and spermicide have in common that IUDs, implants, and the...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Pregnant Women Are Hosts: New Terminology, Same Old Argument

This is incredibly garbled, but if I'm reading it correctly Humphrey is saying that having...

February 03, 2017

Abortion Is Not a Bible Issue

Following Grahams logic, it's not a biblical command for this country to ban abortion, either....