Those who wish to limit abortion should shift their energies out of the realms of the courts, legislatures, and deceptive tactics, and focus on steps that really prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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I was shocked to recently hear my opponent in the race for California's 36th Congressional District, Craig Huey, attempt to downplay the relevance of ...
Chances are you've never heard of Estelle Griswold. But she radically changed the lives of women in America. Forty-six years ago today, her courage secured a basic right of women to use birth control to plan and time our pregnancies and to keep our families healthy.
I confront the polarizing topic of abortion with equal measures of trepidation and resolve to state: I am emphatically pro-choice. And I am just as emphatically anti-abortion.
In exchange for getting support for Planned Parenthood from the Republicans, the Democrats were more than ready to betray the poor people they claim to represent.
Republicans are squandering their supposed 2010 mandate by following an ideological agenda instead of focusing first on creating jobs, particularly when it comes to their attacks on basic women's health care.
If Indiana succeeds in its draconian withdrawal of women's health services, it is not hard to imagine that other states will follow, and women nationwide will be left high and dry for basic services.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She had a young neighbor who lived in a house, Who w...
I am thankful to you, Planned Parenthood, for fighting all these years to maintain the right to safe, legal abortion.
Access to maternal health care, contraception and family planning services can and should be available to all women, regardless of nationality, geography, economic status or other factors.
The truth is that H.R. 3 breaks sharply with longstanding federal abortion policy in ways that could significantly impact people's health insurance and set a precedent that jeopardizes funding for many faith-based organizations.
This Mother's Day, we need to commit to restoring federal funding to ALL the health care needs of mothers, including reproductive health services.
America's pro-choice majority is mobilized, galvanized and standing up to stop the War on Women. Politicians who fail to heed the message will have a steep price to pay in 2012.
Recent research shows what everybody already knows to be true: Catholics use methods of contraception that are banned by the church hierarchy.
This unnecessary, discriminatory law does nothing to create jobs or restore fiscal discipline. Instead, it increases health care costs to taxpayers and interferes with the lives and liberty of thousands of Hoosiers.
Sitting by my television set watching the news and thumbing my Blackberry, I wrote this note to Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, on t...
Given that the poorest part of the country has traditionally been the South it seems to me that instead of "spreading the wealth," national policy is going in the direction of "spreading the poverty."
Perhaps I'm just different from most folks. Maybe I just expect all politicians to lie and deny. So when they do, rather than be upset I'm actually happy...for they've not let me down.
The Planned Parenthood Mike Pence wants to eliminate looks nothing like the Planned Parenthood that three million patients rely on each year. It's time to end this political vendetta. It's wasting valuable time.
Imagine if the American television viewing public were able to vote their favorite TV dancing stars into our government. Doesn't seem too far fetched, really.
Mr. Beck, I understand it is your contention that "only hookers go to Planned Parenthood." There must be a lot of hookers out here.
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