Julie Burkhart is trying to reopen the abortion clinic that was closed when anti-choice folks killed George Tiller in 2009. It was the only one outside of the Kansas City area, and it's needed. However, the violent, recalcitrant folks who claim a fertilized egg is a human are doing all in their power to prevent the clinic from re-opening ( Read more... )

Unless I've really misquoted, that's a Wizards reference ( Read more... )

It's bad enough that people think their warped misunderstandings of religious texts and gross ignorance of science mean they should define a fertilized egg as a human with more rights than the woman who contains it, but that's just not enough for the fundamentalist Right. Now they're trying to redefine rape.

As Mother Jones reports, a House bill ( 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... )