One speaker at last year’s Telluride Mountainfilm Festival was convicted in March of federal felonies. But before his sentencing in June, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be back again this year to talk about his disruption of federal gas leasing in Utah.
Not so, Greg Mortenson. The embattled former More…
Later this month, the Texas Senate is expected to vote on the 2012-13 $164.5 billion budget that passed the House earlier this month.The House version includes $60 million cuts to family planning services.
On an organized conference call focusing on the impacts of state and federal legislation on More…
UPDATED: 10:40 a.m. This article was amended with a correction* noted below.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
Though the contentious 2011 budget process is over and Planned Parenthood will continue receiving federal support, the fight against the organization continues, as anti-abortion rights groups are blasting certain senators for voting for the legislation, claiming those votes are votes for abortion.
Yet as a new report by the More…
As it turned out, Planned Parenthood did not lose federal funding for family planning and reproductive services in the federal budget for fiscal year 2011 passed yesterday by Congress — and in retaliation, the Susan B. Anthony List announced Friday that it is launching a campaign to target senators who voted More…
In a recent email newsletter, Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest urged the group’s supporters to contribute money before the final votes are cast this week in the U.S. Senate and House on the 2011 federal budget in one last attempt to convince legislators to reject any More…
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards briefly joined a debate on WAMU’s Diane Rehm Show Wednesday, where she refuted the notion that the federal money Planned Parenthood currently receives funds abortions indirectly.
“We have very, very strict federal auditing rules,” Richards said. “Federal funds are reimbursed for specific More…
Cable TV news satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mocked Arizona Senator John Kyl Monday for the way he overstepped in making the case against Planned Parenthood on the floor of the Senate last week. Kyl’s wild exaggeration about Planned Parenthood and abortion, however, served to underline the More…
A detention facility in Montana must now administer all medical treatments to incarcerated pregnant women, including opiate-withdrawal medication, following a settlement reached this week by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lake County Detention Center in Polson, Mont.
The settlement was reached in the case of Bethany Cajúne, More…
Meeting with a small group of reporters in her Denver office, Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the right wing of the Republican Party is not doing what voters sent them to Washington for.
“Their agenda has nothing to do with jobs,” she said, noting that Republicans seem hell-bent on passing More…
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