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Planned Parenthood names five ‘states at risk’ in the coming election

By | 11.15.11 | 3:33 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Planned Parenthood has included Florida in its list of “states at risk” for the upcoming election. Only four other states (Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio and Texas) are included on the list.

Romney’s Florida team includes many anti-gay activists

By | 11.14.11 | 5:57 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles.

Boise CPC seeks to draw clients from neighboring Planned Parenthood, director says

By | 11.14.11 | 5:47 pm

Two weeks after moving next door to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center for women with unexpected pregnancies, is working on a plan to boost its clientele while simultaneously minimizing Planned Parenthood’s.

NARAL report claims some Massachusetts CPCs mislead

By | 11.14.11 | 2:16 pm

In an ongoing project to shine more light on pregnancy centers that counsel women out of having abortions -– commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” or CPCs –- NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Massachusetts affiliate has uncovered evidence that CPCs throughout the Bay State have, in some cases, provided women with More…

Romney’s new social-conservative team in Florida includes many anti-gay activists

By | 11.14.11 | 12:09 pm | More from The Florida Independent

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles.

New Ohio law restricts access to judicial bypass of abortion notification

By | 11.11.11 | 3:27 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Ohio, much like Florida, now has a law on the books making it more difficult for young women to access a bypass of the state’s parental notification for abortion law.

Accessible judicial bypass provisions provide young women with an effective way to bypass the law if they fear they will More…

Film linking abortion and Holocaust ‘cynical’ and ‘perverse’, says ADL

By | 11.11.11 | 3:25 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A group that fights anti-Semitism has denounced a film popular among anti-abortion activists linking abortion to the Holocaust. The Anti-Defamation League calls the film “cynical” and “perverse.”

Not all are pleased with new Iowa Senate GOP leader

By | 11.11.11 | 10:20 am | More from The Iowa Independent

State Sen. Jerry Behn (R-Boone) will serve as the Senate Republican leader, the caucus decided after a closed-door meeting Thursday. But it appears some rifts in the minority party may remain, despite Republicans insisting they’ll be united.

‘Choose Life’ license plates coming to New York

By | 11.10.11 | 11:54 am

After seven years fighting off custom-made license plates with an anti-abortion-rights message, the state of New York was ordered by a federal judge to allow a nonprofit to order “Choose Life” plates, reports the Associated Press.

(Video) Ellison challenger, known as anti-abortionist, releases anti-Muslim ad

By | 11.10.11 | 11:42 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Gary Boisclair, an anti-abortion activist running in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District as a Democrat, launched an anti-Islam ad last weekend.