Bush's new nominee to oversee family planning programs doesn't like contraception; no surprise there. Ann notes that "pro-lifers" don't really see anything in it for them if middle-class families have health insurance for their children. After explaining the deadly consequences of the new abortion ban...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In response to Matt here, let's go back and see what I actually wrote about the new WHO study:If the goal of abortion is to protect fetal life, criminalization is.
On Saturday, Tom McCarver treated the most obvious banality as if he'd just split the atom; he can't help it, he's Tim McCarver. What's amazing is that he considered it.
Because we didn't do any political posts yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to blog about the judge who seems to imply that once you've arranged to have sex for money consent can never be withdrawn and rape is impossible. (See also here and...
Like Matt, I think JMM gets this exactly right:I know I've said before that Romney's profound and almost incalculable phoniness is a terrifying prospect to behold in a possible president..
My mother's mother -- my only surviving grandparent -- passed away earlier today. It's very sad, but as the cliche goes probably for the best. The last time I saw.
Roger takes a closer look. One has to agree with his bottom line about the "Value Voters" summit: "Attendees would be well advised to leave their wallets in their hotel rooms and their children in another state."
Our "new" troll Fred Jones "unhinged liberal" has managed to distill every idiotic argument commonly seen about anti-Roe countermobilization into one comment! Just for fun, let's go through every fallacy.
Damn lack of comeptitive balance in baseball -- I don't see how small market teams can compete when a big market team can acquire a great reliver like Eric Gagne.
It never ends.
Over at TAPPED, Kate Sheppard beat me to my own hobbyhorse: a new study published in the Lancet about the effects of abortion criminalization. The findings are, to people who.
Atypically for something written by John Yoo, I actually agree with much of the first part of his Clarence Thomas apologia. Thomas is the most principled conservative on the Court,.