Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

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?

Evangelical-sponsored haunted houses known as “Hell Houses” were spooky attractions filled with the ghosts of the culture wars. Now, a softer, gentler version, the “Judgement House” claims to eschew politics, but does it?

Ben Nelson says he won’t vote to end debate on a Senate health care bill without his Stupak anti-abortion amendment.

Pam Chamberlain details all the varying strategies used by the Christian Right to suppress abortion rights.

Instead of worrying about making friends, pols should focus on greater transparency and separation of church and state.

At Capitol Hill rally, pro-choice Democrats talk women’s rights, not common ground.

The general approach crystallized over several months in early 1996 when 45 antiabortion and religious right leaders, organized by the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, formally adopted abortion reduction as a series of related tactics short of criminalization.

The Obama administration is trying to find common ground with a particular faction of the anti-abortion movement, even while their movement rages on.

The not-so-new ecumenism of the religious right: stoking fears of secularism as the new Nazism.

But will the anti-choice Democrats Stupak-ify it?