Abortion Archive
Archives for November 2015
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?