Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Having publicly assured Tiller’s executioner that he acted in “righteousness and mercy,” affable Lutheran pastor Michael Bray, “chaplain” of Christian extremists, spoke with the author a few years back on why America is like Nazi Germany, why it’s okay to kill active abortion providers, and what he means when he says he’s “pro-choice.”

In New York Times interview, anti-choice Democrat claims he’s been shunned by his party. Not so much?

Catholics for Choice commissions surveys in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Texas.

Is Casey compromise on abortion in health care bill “common ground” or “idiotic?”

Nelson rejects Casey’s compromise.

Christmas story spurs new theocratic fantasies to defeat health care reform.

Unable to get an abortion during a tour of duty in Iraq, a soldier is left with no option but to do it herself—a humiliating but not uncommon dilemma. Women in the military are forced to obtain a leave to get the care they need; but if they’re honest about why, they put their military career in jeopardy. If they’re not, they put their military career in jeopardy.

As religious groups advocate for urgent measures to address climate change in poor nations, the role of reproductive justice gets swept under the rug.

If Hyde is unfair and discriminatory, why is extending it “neutral”?

The principle of the Hyde Amendment, which restricted federal funds from paying for abortion, is now seen as an acceptable, “abortion-neutral” position for the pro-choice party. How did the most significant anti-abortion legislation in history become a moderate compromise?