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SBA List ad attacks Obama and his ‘one friend,’ abortion providers

By | 09.22.11 | 11:50 am

Anti-abortion-rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony List this week launched an attack video against President Barack Obama, depicting his only friends as abortion providers amid dwindling support from other groups.

While Texas CPCs get more money, welfare programs they refer to are cut

By | 09.21.11 | 4:55 pm

As The American Independent has reported, Texas’ six-year-old Alternatives to Abortion program has consistently received increases in state funding, while organizations that provide reproductive-health and family-planning services for the uninsured has steadily decreased. This year, the state Legislature did more than cut family-planning funding, however. It also cut More…

Anti-abortion-rights activist hopes to be the David to Boehner’s Goliath in House primary

By | 09.20.11 | 1:04 pm

Tuesday afternoon, in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home state, anti-abortion-rights protesters are organizing a rally to encourage the Ohio Senate to pass controversial legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

As Texas cuts family-planning funding, more goes to crisis-pregnancy services

By | 09.20.11 | 10:19 am

Image by Matt MahurinWith presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s blessing, as of this month, Texas women’s health clinics and hospitals that provide medical and reproductive health services to low-income, uninsured women across the state have collectively lost approximately $74 million in state funding. Meanwhile, a state network of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)

Perry criticized by family-planning friends and foes on Texas funding, HPV policy

By | 09.08.11 | 11:50 am

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.

Former manager of defunded Planned Parenthood clinic now giving speeches on her ‘pro-life conversion’

By | 08.29.11 | 1:47 pm

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.

MLK memorial unveiling prompts strategy session for anti-abortion rights groups

By | 08.25.11 | 12:19 pm

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…

Perry pledges to select only ‘pro-life’ cabinet members if president

By | 08.24.11 | 4:37 pm

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.

‘Personhood’ video looks to Hungary proposal as proof abortion can be criminalized in U.S. states

By | 08.09.11 | 12:16 pm

The national anti-abortion rights group Personhood USA, whose main efforts are to help states pass so-called “personhood” constitutional amendments, has been promoting avideo that makes a state’s ability to criminalize abortion seem rather simple.

Protesters prepare for what comes after Summer of Mercy (VIDEO)

By | 08.08.11 | 12:11 pm

UPDATE*: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. EST

The Summer of Mercy 2.0 ended Monday morning with a final protest in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in Germantown, Md.