WICHITA, Kan. - A man who said he killed prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in order to save the lives of unborn children was convicted Friday of murder.

The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death.

Thank God ( Read more... )

But after writing a lot about the abortion debate in the last couple of weeks, I'm struck by the similarities between the vitriol Vernon reports and typical anti-choice rhetoric. She receives "terrifying" letters and e-mails calling her "selfish ... unnatural, evil." She is "now routinely referred to as 'baby-hating journalist Polly Vernon.'" Ring ( Read more... )

Posted to Balloon Juice yesterday:

In 1994 my wife and I found out that she was pregnant. The pregnancy was difficult and unusually uncomfortable but her doctor repeatedly told her things were fine. Sometime early in the 8th month my wife, an RN who at the time was working in an infertility clinic asked the Dr. she was working for what he thought of ( Read more... )

From Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood:They just won't stop. Yesterday, I wrote to you with breaking news about an attempt to strip Title X funding for Planned Parenthood from the Appropriations Act - now anti-choice senators are pushing a new amendment to undermine access to birth control ( Read more... )

We have a president who believes in a woman's right to choose. And says so. WOW.

"An "American of German origin" was kicked off a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York for standing up and shouting loud complains about all the "Arab types" on the plane." Joe the Plumber, is that you?

David Ignatius at the WaPo parses Obama's inaugural ( Read more... )

By Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times:
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa.

Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year - along with more women dying in childbirth ( Read more... )

What is Pledge a Picket, you ask? Well, I'll tell ya:
Protesters outside our Locust Street Health Center and our Far Northeast Health Center try to intimidate and harass our patients and staff.

If you wish to respond in a meaningful way, then please join our Pledge-a-Picket campaign and raise your voice against theirs ( Read more... )

Ann Woolner knocks it way out of the park once more. I showed this to Hubby, and he said, "Hillary supporters who think that voting for McCain, or even just sitting out the election, is a good idea should read this." So very very true.

Millions Who Had Abortions Don't Know It: Ann Woolner

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- It's impossible for me to know how ( Read more... )

I love the webcomic Jesus and Mo so freakin' much.

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The headline for this story is definitely inflammatory, but then I realized that's what Ms. Quindlen was going for. From Newsweek:
Quindlen: How Much Jail Time for Women Who Have Abortions?

By Anna Quindlen
Newsweek
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front ( Read more... )