GOP: Blast From the Past
Last night Rachel Maddow explained that the âreal rape victims donât get pregnantâ theory for years has been pushed by people who want to criminalize abortions without exception for rape. And thatâs...
View ArticleThe Hits Keep Coming
Dennis âwomen should just have sex with me whether they want to or not because itâs their duty to make me happyâ (and hereâs part 2) Prager has weighed in on the Akin controversy. He says Akinâs...
View ArticleWhat the Fetus People Donât Want You to Know About Abortion and Contraception
Hereâs a really good video on abortion worldwide from Guttmacher: This video makes a couple of points Iâve made here a few times. One, criminalizing abortion doesnât stop it; where abortion is illegal,...
View ArticleWingnuts: Grapple With Your Own Theodicy and Leave Me Out of It
Amy Sullivan, truly the David Brooks of religion writing, thinks that liberals are misreading Richard Mourdockâs position on abortion. Take a look again at Mourdockâs words: âI came to realize that...
View ArticleGov. Cuomo Will Be Re-elected Next Year
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo is introducing legislation that will ease restrictions on abortions after 23 weeksâ gestation in New York. The law would, first of all, go beyond the usual âlife and health of the...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors and Abortion
For years the Fetus People have based their entire movement on falsified framing, and they are still at it. They are particularly lavish with the phrase âlate-term abortion,â drizzling it over their...
View ArticleAnti-Choice Chicken
In Chile thereâs an 11-year-old girl impregnated by her motherâs boyfriend, and doctors say the pregnancy is putting the childâs life at risk. But Chile has very strict abortion laws that make no...
View ArticleThe Many Hidden Agendas
Regarding abortion â the Fetus People perpetually accuse âpro-abortsâ of just wanting to kill babies. Giving women control over their own lives and bodies doesnât register with the FPs. But what is...
View ArticleFunny Guy
Erick Erickson thinks coat hanger abortions are hilarious. And, yâknow, in 1972, the year before Roe V. Wade was decided, only 39 women in America died from back-alley abortions. which Son of Erick...
View ArticleNew Adventures of the Fetus People
If this doesnât make you want to bite the wall and howl at the moon, nothing will. An abortion clinic sitting in a residential area of Wichita, Kansas poses a safety hazard to the surrounding...
View ArticleWhen Anti-Choicers Choose
It appears today is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Hereâs an eye-opening page of accounts of what happens when an abortion clinic picketer encounters an unwanted pregnancy. They want an...
View ArticleBuffer Zones Are Gone
SCOTUS has found Massachusetts âbuffer zonesâ around abortion clinics to be unconstitutional. This doesnât surprise me. I am, however, stunned to learn this was a unanimous decision. Some guy actually...
View ArticleWe Donât Call âEm American Taliban for Nothing
It strikes me that the right-wing Christianists celebrating the Hobby Lobby decision are an unimaginative crew. This might be expected of people who combine dogmatic literalism with a myopic inability...
View ArticleWhat We Donât See
Of all the conceits common to humankind possibly the most insidious is that any of us are entirely rational. And often the most irrational people are those who brag about how rational they are. Even if...
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Compassion vs. Reince Priebus
There was a brief flurry of mild amusement on some leftie blogs yesterday, as Chuck Todd appeared briefly to make a point. On Meet the Press he asked GOP frontman Reince Priebus about why Republicans...
View ArticleWar on Women Update
Dave Weigel has moved from Slate to Bloomberg News, at at Bloomberg he tells us that the GOP has a bigger and bigger problem with women voters. The most interesting part, to me, is that in many races...
View ArticleThe GOP White Guy Club Vs. Gynecology
This past week House Republicans did something truly remarkable, which was to scuttle an anti-abortion bill they had planned to pass on Thursday. [*] This bill, which would have banned abortions at 20...
View ArticleThose Sneaky Canadians
Sting videos just ainât what they used to be. James OâKeefe just released one, with great fanfare, that allegedly showed âillegal activity conducted by high-level employees within Hillary Clintonâs...
View ArticleWar on Women Update
Gail Collins on House Republicans versus Planned Parenthood: The House Judiciary Committee has been investigating the matter with lawyerly precision, starting with a hearing titled: âPlanned Parenthood...
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Stuck on Stupid on Steroids
The wingnuts are gloating because they think the Planned Parenthood shooter is a trans woman. Seriously. Um, guys, did you look at his photo? This came about because the Dumbest Man on the InternetÂŽ...
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