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January 2017

January 27, 2017

Correcting Assorted Conservative Misinformation

It's ironic, really. Growing up in a conservative evangelical family, I often heard about the...

January 23, 2017

Thank the ACA, Not Restrictions, for Abortion Decline

No way am I going to let these abortion opponents deny Obama, the ACA, and...

January 19, 2017

Feminism, Abortion, and Coalition-Building

The organization New Wave Feminism isn't simply anti-abortion. It's a group that spreads medical misinformation,...

January 16, 2017

Abortion in the Public Imagination

It's absurd that an anti-abortion writer would feel the image of a woman in her...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

The Terrible Inconsistency in Ohio’s Abortion Ban

It's hard to take seriously those working to ban abortion when there is a completely...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Republicans Fan the Flames of Big Government Regulations

It's ironic, really, that Republicans spend so much time talking smack about government regulations, but...

November 22, 2016

Answering Objections to Abortion Ban Obligations

I wrote, yesterday, about an Indiana lawmaker who plans to propose a full abortion ban...

November 21, 2016

What Obligations Accompany an Abortion Ban?

There's no need to get bogged down in the specific points of what these policies...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Anti-Choice Ohio Law Made Abortion Less Safe

In other words, the FDA made its recommendations for mifepristone dosage and usage in 2000,...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Fetal Imaginings

Nearly 66% of abortions happen in the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Another 26% happen...

June 28, 2016

For Women’s Health and Innocent Lives: Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Response to Whole Women’s Health v. Texas

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down H.B. 2, a Texas law that restricted abortion access...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

What Everyone Is Missing about the Indiana Abortion Law

Say what you want about the side of this bill that makes it harder for...

April 05, 2016

The Natural Consequences of Banning Abortion

On some level, I understand why so many people identify as pro-life. I get it....

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Women Are Already Being Prosecuted for Having Abortions

This week presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stated that women who have abortions should receive some...

March 09, 2016

Abortion Opponents Move the Goalposts (part 3)

Can you see how severely misleading that is? Any ordinary person reading that is going...

March 08, 2016

Examining the Missing Anti-Abortion Footnote

No fewer than three readers tracked down and sent me the Gary and Harrison article,...

March 08, 2016

The Devil’s in the Anti-Abortion Footnotes (part 2)

As you may remember, during arguments before the Supreme Court last week, Texas Solicitor General...

March 07, 2016

Dissecting Grandiose Anti-Abortion Claims (part 1)

During arguments before the Supreme Court last week, Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller stated that...

March 03, 2016

A Look at Yesterday’s Supreme Court Abortion Hearings

Still, I can wait more patiently for the decision knowing that Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg,...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Wanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Abortions

I have a lot of respect for Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN who runs a popular...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Continued Complicity in the Planned Parenthood Shootings

At the very least, we can refuse to let individuals like Daubenmire and Sorbo off...

December 17, 2015

Did You Know Hospitals “Sell” Body Parts?

The next time someone tells you that Planned Parenthood sells baby parts, shrug and tell...

December 02, 2015

Christian Terrorist Robert Dear and the Army of God

Teenage anti-abortion activist turned critical blogger Kathryn Elizabeth has started a blog series on the...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

No True Christian: Robert Dear and Christian Terrorism

And this, too, is part of the problem. Aside from the murder of George Tiller...

November 19, 2015

All-Options PRC: The New Pro-Choice Center on the Block

The next time someone says that the pro-choice position is also anti-pregnancy or anti-children, send...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Texas Violates Its Free Market Principles

I grew up in a conservative home, and if there's one thing I learned it...

October 06, 2015

No, Medicaid and Title X Do Not Subsidize Abortions

Cutting off low-income women's access to contraceptives and other non-abortion services through Planned Parenthood will...

October 05, 2015

Planned Parenthood’s “Government Funding”: The Same Kind Your Doctor Receives

Next time someone tells you that the government subsidizes Planned Parenthood, ask them to explain...

October 01, 2015

No, Abortion Is Not 86% of Planned Parenthood’s Revenue

Where did Lummis get her number, is it accurate, and what does it tell us...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Admitting Privileges, Abortion, and the Trojan Horse of Protecting Women’s Health

Abortion is far safer than birth. Troy Newman of Operation Rescue calls 1000 hospitalizations due...