Abortion Archive
Archives for December 2015


These were some of the major trends in anti-abortion legislation in 2015.


TV plot lines about abortion tend to focus on white, childless teenagers. That’s not the reality.


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.”