Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has launched a campaign targeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been pegged by many media outlets as the current leader in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election.
Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National Organization for Marriage (NOM), to continue forcing candidates to articulate their positions on same-sex marriage at the federal level; however, the issue that really stole the show was abortion, More…
A 33-year-old Idaho woman is seeking class-action status on a federal lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, made possible by the claim babies are developed enough at that stage to feel pain.
The youth-focused anti-abortion rights group Students for Life of America (SFLA) recently announced its upcoming annual national conference with a theme of “Envision,” as in “Envision … a World Without Abortion.”
Two years after Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, abruptly quit her job and began protesting abortion rights (and profiting heavily from it), another former Planned Parenthood worker has recently begun accepting speaking gigs to denounce abortion, according to LifeNews.com.
This weekend, the nation’s capital will be host to many celebrations of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., who 48 years ago led a policy-changing civil rights march on the National Mall. National anti-abortion rights groups in turn are using King’s legacy — and brand-new memorial — as an More…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry — currently in the lead, according to Gallup, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 — signed (PDF) on Wednesday the Susan B. Anthony List’s controversial anti-abortion pledge.
For some, improving methods of pregnancy-prevention is an obvious middle ground in the abortion-rights debate; however, many of the same groups that oppose abortion rights often oppose public policies to expand sex education or improve access to affordable birth control. With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s More…
A Monday blog entry posted by Family Research Council Action references a media account of how adoption is changing due to technology, but FRCA omits the portion about technology and instead attempts to make the leap that a lack of birth mothers is due to abortion services, and specifically due More…
Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala for the influential anti-abortion rights policy group Americans United for Life, which was founded in 1971.
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