Opinion: What the brewing interstate travel wars over abortion portend (tags)
The Supreme Court seems ready to undo Roe v. Wade, the landmark case recognizing the right to choose abortion, in a matter of weeks, and blue as well as red states are already preparing for what might be coming next: a conflict between states seeking to facilitate out-of-state travel for abortion and those trying to shut it down.
SCOTUS is Giving Us a Ride (tags)
It's been a rough few weeks in 2018.
How Ryan’s votes in Congress reveal likely Romney-Ryan policy direction (tags)
The Republican Party Platform committee calls for a constitutional ban on abortion in the 2012 GOP Platform. The constitutional ban would make no exception for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, according to the examiner.com.
John Brooks: Occupy Inspires Neophyte to Run for Congress (tags)
John Brooks was a retired agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife until he saw the Occupy San Diego protests on TV and was inspired to run for Congress as an alternative Democrat. Though he ran afoul of the San Diego Democrats for Equality's endorsement process, he's recently been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America and his real views on Queer rights and women's choice are far more progressive than the Democrats for Equality's questionnaire made them sound.
BTL:House Passes Bill that Denies Women Emergency Abortion Services (tags)
Interview with Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Queer Democrats Warned About Threats to Reproductive Choice (tags)
The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club heard two presentations at its June 23 meeting: a report on the likely strike by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) against southern California?s three largest grocery chains ? Ralph?s, Albertson?s and Vons ? and a warning about the potentially devastating effects of Republican and radical-Right policies against women?s rights to reproductive choice. Though the struggles of women to maintain safe and legal access to contraception and abortion may seem to have little in common with those of workers for decent pay, access to health care and other benefits, speakers on both issues noted how the radical Right has effectively linked them in the service of a paternalistic agenda that regards workers as mere cogs in a capitalist economy, and women as mere vessels for giving birth to the next generation.
BTL:Anti-Abortion Bills High on New GOP-Controlled House Agenda (tags)
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BTL:Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Reform Bills Could Derail Passage (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
BTL:Pro Choice Groups Declare War on Anti-Abortion Amendment in Healthcare Bill (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
GABNET DECRIES "TRADE-OFF" OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM (tags)
GABNet condemns the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to House Resolution 3277, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives this past Saturday, November 7th.
Pro-choice and Pro-Life Groups Clash at Family Planning Clinic; Police Intervene (tags)
Ongoing Clashes between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life groups make local Family Planning Clinic a battleground in the abortion rights debate
Defending Abortion Rights (tags)
Los Angeles Clinic Defense against anti-abortion bigots.
MP3 AUDIO: Interview with Katie Miller, Abortion Clinic Defender (tags)
LOS ANGELES, September 26, 2009 – Right wing extremist groups are by nature essentially opposed to equal rights for women. From their campaign against the Equal Right Amendment in the 1970’s to their ongoing war against women’s access to healthcare (in particular the medical procedure known as abortion) various hate groups have for years targeted clinics that provide help on reproduction, family planning and other personal healthcare matters specific to women’s needs.
Discussion is an alternative to lone-nuts.
Over 250 San Diegans Memorialize Dr. George Tiller (tags)
Over 250 San Diegans turned out to the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest Thursday, June 4 to memorialize Dr. George Tiller, family-planning doctor and abortion provider, who was murdered in his church on May 31. The event was a combination church service, pro-choice rally and candlelight vigil, in which attendees and speakers renewed their commitment to be active in protecting a woman's right to reproductive choice against the terrorist tactics many so-called "pro-life" abortion foes use to eliminate American women's access to safe, legal abortions.
Dr. George Tiller, Abortion Doctor Assassinated 5/31/09, 6/1/09 is Nat'l Day of Mourning (tags)
Dr. George Tiller, a 67 year old provider of late term abortions, was assassinated on Sunday, May 31, 2009, by a fascist thug whom police claim to have in custody. Where were they when he was killed in his church? Where were his bodyguards? Will all the flags nationwide be at half-mast as after all women are the majority, 51% of the population, and it is our lives he saved?
Pseudo Theologian Rep. Peter T. King Sounds Off (tags)
Notre Dame U. plans to bestow an honorary degree on President Barack Obama. This caused the ultra Iraq War Hawk, Rep. Peter T. King (R-3-NY), to toss a major hissy fit. He insisted that because of Obama’s support for abortion, that the award would be an insult to “Catholic moral teachings.” Why weren’t these Catholic standards applied to the Bush-Cheney Gang’s War without End, torture policies and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution?
U.S. Catholic Bishops “See No Evil” in the War Party (tags)
The Bush-Cheney Gang has been running the country into the ground the last seven years, while creating a framework for a fascist police state. It has also slaughtered 1.2 million Iraqis and sent 3,867 of our finest sons and daughters to a early grave in an illegal and immoral war. But, you wouldn’t know it from any of the results of the annual conference of U.S. Catholic Bishops. To them, abortion is the greatest evil facing Mankind! Go figure!
My Letter to William Cardinal Keeler (tags)
The RC Bishops in the U.S. are against abortion. Most of the RC laity is against it, too. They get the message from the Bishops on that issue. Yet, these same Bishops, and the Pope, too, are also, on moral grounds, against the war in Iraq. Nevertheless, that idea, strangely, hasn’t gotten down to most of the faithful. William Hughes asks Cardinal William Keeler why.
Women’s Rights Under Assault, Abortion Outlawed In South Dakota (tags)
The right to abortion was won in the United States in 1973 through a mass struggle in the streets that culminated in the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
BTL:South Dakota Anti-Abortion Forces Working to Overturn Roe vs. Wade (tags)
Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Judge Alito, Jesus, Homosexuality, Abortion and Privacy (tags)
The "religious" right REALLY wants Judge Sam Alito on the Supreme Court. But why? How might Judge Sam help advance their agenda? And do you know what Jesus of Nazareth actually SAID about two of the "religious" right's hot-button issues? - - - - - - - - - -
Alito hints to overturning Roe v. Wade during Senate Hearing (tags)
Alito hints at his view of Roe v. Wade by his discription of an unborn fetus as an unborn human.
Proposition 73 would set up "hit list" of California judges (tags)
Proposition 73 sets up a mechanism to target California judges who support privacy rights.
THIS TUES. PROTECT WOMEN'S RIGHTS & VOTE NO on PROP. 73 (tags)
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From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freed (tags)
A press release regarding an upcoming abortion rights and social justice conference.
Democrat AG Lockyer Attacks Abortion Right with Peterson Prosecution (tags)
Death penalty Democrat Attorney General Lockyer spent millions of our tax dollars running for governor by falsely prosecuting the innocent Scott Peterson for the murder of his pregnant wife, proving that he, like the Republicans, is anti-abortion. Lesson: Always vote your conscience and never vote for Democrats or Republicans.
Defrauding Women of Abortion (tags)
An anti-abortion fraudster preyed on working-class women by promising them discount abortions and then cancelling appointments repeatedly, until it became too late for them to have abortions -- the fraud enabled by an anti-abortion myth that women who want abortions need extensive counseling about abortion's "emotional and physical side effects."
BTL:Planned Parenthood Court Challenge Overturns GOP-Backed...' (tags)
...Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act~ Interview with Beth Parker, attorney representing Planned Parenthood in the Partial Birth Abortion Ban court case, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
ABORTION SOARS IN QUEST FOR PERFECT BABIES (tags)
Those with conditions that can usually be corrected medically - such as deformed feet and cleft lips and palates - are instead being terminated.
Abortion backers operate on illogic (tags)
Just remember this the next time you hear pro-abortion protesters talk about extremists against choice: They're inadvertently describing themselves.
REVIEW: Where's Feminism? Everywhere and Nowhere (tags)
his world really needs a new feminism, and the editors and contributors are right on to ground feminism in social movements dealing with real life and not just the simulacra of representational politics. But saying that all issues are women’s issues because women are involved or are leaders misses the point.
Young women say: We will stand for choice April 25 (tags)
WASHINGTON – In a time where many claim that youth in the United States are not as pro-choice as their mothers, a sizeable delegation of pro-choice young people from across the country aim to stand up and be counted at the March for Women’s Lives here April 25.
Howard Dean warned that, if Democrats were not careful, Republicans would attempt to turn this election into a mandate on "gays, God and guns." As events of the past few weeks have demonstrated, Dean was right.
Edwards-Kerry Debate Still Needs Opponent (tags)
Edwards-Kerry Debate Still Needs Opponent
Dennis Kucinich: Candidate of the left? (tags)
Kucinich opposed busing programs to integrate Cleveland schools. Before the issue had even taken hold locally, he made a point to introduce a resolution in the city council asking Congress to oppose busing as a means of integration. While Kucinich supported social and economic programs that would benefit the white immigrant neighborhoods that made up the majority of the district he represented, he disparaged similar improvements in Black neighborhoods. One of his campaign workers remarked in 1972 that Kucinich has "learned to play dirty pool…. It’s a racial issue. There are a lot of bigots in that district and someone has to represent them, let’s face it."9
This article is written in lieu of Congress passing and Bush signing into law the bill that outlaws partial-birth abortion. Plenty of things to be said.
Dangerous New Law Targets Women's Rights (tags)
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Riot urged against the execution of martyr Paul Hill (tags)
Paul Hill is now officialy a martyr for killing an abortion doctor and the doctor's partner-in-crime.
MOVE OVER ISLAM--CHRISTIAN EXTREMISM IN THE U.S. (tags)
Move over you Islamic extremists dreaming of 40 virgins in heaven, we got Christian extremism right here in the good ole' U.S.A.
'Roe' Seeks to Overturn Abortion Law (tags)
DALLAS (Reuters) - The woman once known as "Jane Roe" whose case led to the legalization of abortion in the United States 30 years ago filed a new court challenge on Tuesday in a bid to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision.
Why Libertarians support the prostitution of children (tags)
"we call for the repeal of all laws that restrict anyone, including children, from engaging in voluntary exchanges of goods, services, or information regarding human sexuality..."
BTL:Senate Passage of "Partial Birth Abortion" Ban is Important Gain in... (tags)
...Anti-Choice Campaign. Interview with Karyn Strickler, executive director of Fifty Plus One, conducted by Between the Lines' Denise Manzari
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Hits Calif. Marine Base (tags)
Ooops! Sorry about that mortar round! We'll get you a medic in about four hours. Try not to bleed ot death or anything! + more...
Christian Fundamentalists-Potential Terrorists (tags)
Following the court decision striking the phrase"under God" from the Loyalty Oath("Pledge of Alligence"), Christian fundamentalists have been going ballistic. As in Islam or any religion, any group with an "our way or no way" attitude is a sure breeding ground for terror.
Groups Denounce Deceptive Ads of Abortionists (tags)
Why doesn't the National Abortion Federation List the Side Effects of RU-486 in its Ad Campaign? Sleazy tactics remind some of cigarette industry, used car dealers.
Planned Parenthood target of Anthrax Letters (tags)
About 110 abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide received envelopes in the mail Monday with white powder inside, clinic officials said.
Falwell blames gays, abortion rights, etc. for terrorism (tags)
An example of some of the ugly rhetoric we might expect from J. Falwell. How come the mainstream press can't find space for some of the reasonable voices I find here on the IMC?
Flashpoints Radio, June 13, 2001: Why 1000's of Europeans are protesting GWBush (tags)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio June 13, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story') - Why 10,000's of Europeans are gathering in Sweden to protest G.W.Bush. (8 min) - U.S. Congress set to give G.W.Bush fast track authority (10 min) - Lawful abortion providers being intimidated by "pro-life" bombings and arsons. (13 min) - Abducted Cololmian indigenous environmental activist Kimi Pernia Domico still missing (9 min)
Show support to abortion providers JOIN the car caravan this Saturday March 10 ! (tags)
JOIN US AT THE WESTWOOD FEDERAL BUILDING at 9.00 AM to show appreciation for abortion providers. Partecipate to the car caravan!
THIS SATURDAY JOIN US for A National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers (tags)
THIS SATURDAY MARCH 10 JOIN US AT THE WESTWOOD FEDERAL BUILDING at 9.00 AM to show appreciation for abortion providers.
Health Care Activists Take Notes! (tags)
Read, Forward, Distribute, Digest and Begin the Cycle Again
GOP Shoots Self in Foot, Again (tags)
A look at the failed GOP attempt to do a "moderate makeover" at the Convention.