A wonderful Washington Post column from a woman who had to face that terrible choice. She's discusses it in context with the extreme right's Congressional decision in which the House judiciary committee approved a bill to ban all abortions after the 21st week.

Read it.

House Republican recently held a session on women's reproductive rights without a woman to speak at the session. In the afternoon session, they added one woman who supported the measure and explicitly excluded a speaker the Democrats wanted to speak against it ( Read more... )

I have an old friend who's on the other side of the Choice debate. Not because he's a religious fanatic, mind you, but he decided the benefit of the doubt about humanity should go to the fetus. One thing I've told him is that OB/GYNs at regular hospitals should practice abortions and it should be illegal for hospitals to ban abortion procedures ( Read more... )

Shocking, journalists got something right. Alert the media! Oh, wait ( Read more... )

The family of slain doctor George Tiller has decided to close the clinic he ran. It not only provided late term abortions, nor even just abortions, but a full range of pregnancy related services. However, the "Christians" who decide to kill doctors have managed to shut down one of the few remaining providers of late term abortions and of any ( Read more... )

George Tiller was killed for providing a legal service. Yes, a few folks spout the moderate line that they support only peaceful and legal means. I'm sure some of them even mean it. However, I'm convinced that most evince the attitude of the scum quoted in the article as supporting the action ( Read more... )