Mississippi Personhood

A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.

Anti-Abortion Publicity Stunt Fails

A publicity stunt arranged by an anti-abortion group failed when an ultrasound failed to detect a heartbeat in a 9-week-old fetus.

Mum’s The Word When It Comes To Defining “Forcible Rape”

Earlier this week I wrote about the redefing rape as “forcible rape” in H.R. 3 (No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act).  Today we discover that the “Pro-Life” contingency is unusually quiet, which is quite interesting given how much “Pro-Lifers” love to talk about abortion.  Talk about jobs? Not so much.  Actually… not at all.  Now [...]

President Obama Has A Primary Opponent!

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry plans to run against President Obama in the Iowa caucuses. This plan could not possibly fail.

I Really Tried To Ignore Douthat’s Column

You’re probably destined to write a post about something you go to bed thinking about.   Here’s what kept me up last night:
In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it is [...]

Another Reason To Vote

As the mother of a teenager daughter I’m always keeping my eye on family planning issues, so Colorado’s Amendment 62 caught my attention.
Personhood Colorado’s website acknowledges that Amendment 62 would ban all abortions, without exceptions for rape, incest or to save a mother’s life. It also would ban stem cell research and birth control other [...]

Sister Margaret

Sister Margaret was a senior administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. A 27-year-old mother of four arrived late last year, in her third month of pregnancy. According to local news reports and accounts from the hospital and some of its staff members, the mother suffered from a serious complication called pulmonary hypertension. That created a high probability that the strain of continuing pregnancy would kill her. “In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” the hospital said in a statement.

Guess what happened to Sister Margaret.

Oklahoma Doctors Get Okay To Lie To Patients

Angry Mouse at kos points out the crazy.
The second measure passed into law Tuesday protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth defects. The intent of the bill is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to try [...]

Who Speaks For Me On This Issue?

Exhibit one on why we need to have more representation for women in government: abortion restrictions in the health care reform bill. A group of “pro-life” (which means life begins at conception and ends at birth) Democrats were willing to deny 32 million already existing people health insurance because the bill fails to outlaw [...]

Conservative Disconnect On Government Intervention – Marriage vs Abortion

It’s no secret that when it comes to abortion the Conservative/Republican motto is the more government intervention the better.  Mandatory waiting periods for abortions?  Fine with them.  A measure “that would require a woman be given a description of ultrasound images of her unborn child and be offered those images before getting an abortion?”  Why [...]

Pregnant Woman Ordered (Yes, Ordered!) To Bed Rest

It boggles the mind.
Via Dkos:
Ms. Burton is pregnant. She has two children and in her current pregnancy she is at risk of a miscarriage. She was admitted to the hospital in Florida where her doctors advised bed rest as well until a C-section could be performed. They also insisted that she quit smoking as the [...]

Those Contributions Are Fungible

Are you aware of the logic of the Stupak amendment? John Aravosis explains:
The House passed the anti-choice Stupak amendment last night. Basically, the amendment stops any government money from funding insurance plans that cover abortions. The twisted logic being that any money connected to any insurance company covering abortions is “abortion money,” i.e., profits [...]