In a letter sent on Thursday, the National Right to Life Committee urged House Republican leaders to name social conservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) as chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health if Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) is made chair of the full committee, Politico reports. The...
There is "no question" that the election of Republican majorities in several states "means that anti-choice legislators will more aggressively push through abortion restrictions next year," Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup writes in a letter to the editor of the New York...
On Monday, the Rev. Philip "Flip" Benham, director of the North Carolina-based antiabortion-rights group Operation Save America, was convicted of stalking a physician after distributing hundreds of "wanted" posters targeting abortion providers, the Charlotte Observer reports. A Mecklenburg...
New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) -- who opposes abortion rights in almost all cases, including rape and incest -- is defending his company's leasing of a clinic space to a Planned Parenthood affiliate that provides abortion services in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Long Island Newsday...
Independent political group Common Sense South Dakota on Tuesday announced that it will spend up to $100,000 on radio ads suggesting that Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.) has ties to abortion-rights groups, the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader reports. The ad says that Herseth Sandlin took...
Continuing its campaign against antiabortion-rights House Democrats who voted for the federal health reform law (PL 111-148), the Susan B. Anthony List on Tuesday launched a bus tour through 23 cities in swing states to rally support from social conservatives, the Washington Independent reports...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "History Says GOP's Court Fight Will Be Futile," Steve Kornacki, Salon's "The Numerologist": Republicans' immediate response to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was "hardly a surprise," including...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "History Says GOP's Court Fight Will Be Futile," Steve Kornacki, Salon's "The Numerologist": Republicans' immediate response to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was "hardly a surprise," including...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "History Says GOP's Court Fight Will Be Futile," Steve Kornacki, Salon's "The Numerologist": Republicans' immediate response to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was "hardly a surprise," including...
Several thousand antiabortion-rights protesters on Monday held a march at the site of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas' new six-acre, six-story administrative and surgical center, which is scheduled to open in March, the Houston Chronicle reports. The protesters -- organized by...