Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.
Ohio’s attorney general found no evidence that Planned Parenthood was “selling” fetal tissue, but he also made some weird claims that the provider is throwing fetuses in landfills. What’s going on?
It may sound like a buzzkill, but it’s good for public health.
A DC charter school is suing anti-abortion activists, and other recent attempts to curb the worst of protest activity.
Most mainstream abortion opponents agree that violence is a grossly inappropriate action to protest the termination of pregnancies.
After this extended courtroom rant, it’s hard to argue that we don’t know the alleged attacker’s motive.
How heated debates about abortion and gun violence have risen to the forefront after the shooting.
The morning after the deadliest attack ever against abortion providers, employees and volunteers at Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics across the country went back to work.
Researchers have found that when Planned Parenthood clinics close, other clinics do not step up to fill the gap.
The abortion-defunding fight wasn’t always waged this way.
And this was before the Colorado Springs attack.
Since 1977 there have been eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 186 arsons targeted at abortion clinics and providers across the United States. In some cases, a small group of clinics have been targeted multiple times.
If abortion is really no different from genocide or slavery, then why wouldn’t armed resistance be called for? The nation’s largest Protestant Christian denomination explains why.
The Republican presidential candidate called the shooting suspect “a transgendered leftist activist.”
A pro-choice group petitioned the Obama administration to categorize attacks on abortion clinics as “domestic terrorism” last Wednesday — two days before the deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood isn’t just a provider of abortion — it’s the main provider of abortions in America, and it benefits from public funds.
The term “baby parts” was popularized by an anti-abortion group that used sting videos against Planned Parenthood using undercover videos.
There are dozens of attacks on abortion clinics that don’t get nearly as much publicity as the Colorado shooting.
Threats, vandalism, and violence against abortion providers and clinics have escalated since this summer, when anti-abortion activists released videos accusing Planned Parenthood of “selling baby parts.”
There have been at least 73 successful attacks on American abortion clinics since 1997, according to the National Abortion Federation.
A five-hour standoff leaves three dead and nine wounded.
A federal appeals court just struck down Scott Walker’s 2013 law that would close half of Wisconsin’s abortion clinics.
The story of Planned Parenthood at the University of Missouri is also the story of how anti-abortion legislators are restricting abortion access nationwide.
Shonda Rhimes uses the show to deliver a surprisingly bold pro-choice message.
Abortion has gotten a lot harder to access in Texas. We now have some basic data about how many Texas women take abortion into their own hands.
A lot more women are using IUDs and implants, the most effective birth control out there.
Intrauterine devices (IUDs) are amazingly, fantastically good at preventing pregnancy — but only 8.5 percent of birth control users have one.
It’s a sensational, historically problematic analogy that always gets backlash. So why does it keep happening?
“I can understand where people would say that arrows went in different directions,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
A Planned Parenthood critic doesn’t know that 935,573 is larger than 327,653.
The most generous reading of Fiorina’s remarks are that she mistook what she saw in the videos.
Either Fiorina hasn’t watched the Planned Parenthood videos or she is knowingly misrepresenting the footage.
“If Democrats have to defend the actions of Planned Parenthood, when a news show is showing a split screen with the video and asking for comment, at some point the pressure becomes too much to bear.”
The myth abounds, and it is animating the latest drama on Capitol Hill.
This fight is shaping up into the biggest policy clash of the rest of the year.
This seems to be the core of the debate: Are the edited videos fair?
New evidence suggests there’s more to the story.
Americans appear to view Planned Parenthood more favorably than they do abortion clinics writ large.
The GOP’s rightward shift on abortion could come back to haunt the party’s nominee in 2016.
The Florida senator wants to limit abortion as much as possible.
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