An investigation of the Planned Parenthood being targeted by deposed Kansas panty-sniffer-in-chief Phil Kline shows that -- he had nothing. Shocking! Meanwhile, this article about pro-choice politics in Kansas is really interesting (Obama/Sebelius '08!) [HT: Feministing] I also like this debunking of attempts to argue...
reproductive freedom
I arrived on the promise to write more about criminal justice, but it seems like there's been a lot of straight up repro freedom news these days. I wrote the.
Sometimes I think the term "common sense" is an oxymoron. Or a paradox, at the very least. Because the things that make the most sense are often in opposition to.
I have a guest post up at Feministe about Helena Silverstein's new book, which amasses and expands on the data she's collected about how parental involvement laws -- and especially the bypass provisions -- actually work on the ground. The answer is that they don't...
Tom Hilton looks into Melinda Henneberger and discovers that her random anecdotes just happened to line up with her strong pro-forced-pregnancy views! ("'...choice,' make no mistake, is killing the Democratic.
Melinda Henneberger. Her accomplishment should not be understated; within op-ed pages that regularly publish Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd, and that gave a month-long guest slot to the Simpsons' crazy.
I tried to go into today's NY Times op-ed column "Why Pro-Choice is a Bad Choice for Democrats" with an open mind. I really did. But it's going to take a better column than this one to convince me that Democrats should soften their stance...
I have a post over at TAPPED noting that Kennedy's opinion in Carhart II was a "gaffe" in the Kinsley sense of telling the truth. And in this case, the.
Sigh. Some days I can only laugh at how ridiculous this country can be.Case in point: Yesterday, Fox and CBS announced that they would not be airing a new Trojan.
I suppose there's nothing terribly surprising about Fred Thompson asserting that Roe v. Wade is the worst Supreme Court decision since 1967. And nor is it surprising that he would repeat the abject nonsense that overturning Roe would "send the issue back to the states"...
Marty Lederman points us to an interesting WaPo article, in which a few members of America's tiny minority of serious, principled "pro-lifers" have come to see that "Partial Birth" bans.
More reasoned discourse from America's profoundly serious and morally superior pro-life movement, this time from National Abstinence Clearinghouse Sweepstakes spokesperson Leslee Unruh. You will not be surprised to learn that.