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Maroon
April 27, 2018
“We're anti-abortion, anti-death penalty. We support human trafficking survivors,” Trist said. “We recognize that our anti-abortion stance is our most controversial one here at Loyola. We don't ask that everyone agree with us; we just ask that they respect us.” The Department of Student Involvement approvedÃâà...
CNN
April 27, 2018
... this kind of language," the association wrote. The Kansas City Star first reported the letter's existence. Fitzgerald told CNN while he doesn't mean to offend, he's not going to say he'll stop using the Nazis and Holocaust to support his anti-abortion arguments -- that no one should limit anyone's free speech.
HuffPost
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON ― The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, Kyle Duncan, a lawyer who built his career on fighting abortion rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights. Every Republican voted to confirm Duncan, 45, to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of AppealsÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 26, 2018
Smith, the aides say, wanted to add a stringent anti-abortion initiative to the bill, related to the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues. That was a non-starter for Democrats and even opposed by some Republicans, who felt bringing the abortion debate into the mix would shatter the fragileÃâà...
Northeast Indiana Public Radio
April 21, 2018
This is one of six lawsuits challenging Indiana anti-abortion statutes since 2011. Federal courts have ruled against the state in each of those cases – most of which involve Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and the ACLU of Indiana. Federal Judge Daniel Manion, one of the three judges whoÃâà...
California Healthline
April 21, 2018
Anti-abortion lawmakers are hoping to get legislation in the pipeline to trigger a legal challenge for Roe v. Wade. The Washington Post: Abortion Battles Are Heating Up Ahead Of November Midterms Mississippi's governor just signed a law, more restrictive than in any state, banning abortions after 15Ãâà...
The Collegian
April 21, 2018
The Fresno State Police Department is apparently investigating complaints that a student ripped anti-abortion posters off walls as the group who posted them recorded the incident. Bernadette Tasy, president of the Fresno State chapter of Students for Life, said the incident happened April 10. She said sheÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
April 20, 2018
BOISE – Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as officials in Republican-dominant states push legislation that would punish both doctors and patients, even though such laws are likely unconstitutional. In Idaho, Republicans competing in a crowded field for governor have made it aÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
April 20, 2018
A Planned Parenthood health clinic operating at a Paso Robles housing complex recently stopped providing services after anti-abortion activists pressured the property owner, the organization said. The satellite clinic operated for two months at Canyon Creek Apartments in Paso Robles, a Peoples'Ãâà...
Daily Illini
April 19, 2018
Anti-abortion group demonstrates graphic imagery on Main Quad. A+University+student+challenges+the+pro-life+activists%. Quentin Shaw. A University student challenges the pro-life activists' methods during a protest outside the Illini Union on Wednesday. By The Daily Illini Staff Report April 18, 2018. Filed under AroundÃâà...
Wonkette (blog)
April 18, 2018
Today's dose of Gosh How Shocking is brought to us by the Huffington Post, which profiles the adventures in far right politics of one Kristen Walker Hatten, a self-described “feminist” who is also against legal abortions. She was quite the big deal in anti-abortion circles, because how could opposing abortionÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 18, 2018
If she agreed with her husband's anti-abortion stance, which was the far more accepted position within their party, why wouldn't she just say so? Her reticence on the issue was a very quiet appeal to pro-choice Republicans and independents who might have otherwise felt uncomfortable voting for herÃâà...
The Independent
April 18, 2018
A prominent anti-abortion group is distancing itself from one of its former leaders after it emerged that she embraced white nationalism. Kristen Walker Hatten has spoken at universities across the US to promote the idea mainstream feminism should oppose abortion rights. Until recently, she wasÃâà...
Media Matters for America (blog)
April 18, 2018
Lila Rose, founder of the anti-abortion group Live Action, appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight in June 2017 alleging that Twitter was censoring Live Action's ads due to ideological bias. In reality, the content still appeared on Live Action's Twitter page, but was not allowed to be promoted as anÃâà...
The Times
April 18, 2018
The debate around terminations as the country prepares for next month's referendum on the Eight Amendment has become too “sanitised”, anti-abortion activists have said. Love Both, part of the Pro Life Campaign group, launched its push for a no vote yesterday and described abortion as a barbaricÃâà...
HuffPost
April 17, 2018
Kristen Walker Hatten, former vice president of the anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists and a contributor to The Dallas Morning News, has spoken at universities and events around the country about the need for mainstream feminism to embrace women who oppose abortion rights. She has writtenÃâà...
Slate Magazine
April 17, 2018
Cardi B has attracted a parade of right-wing supporters over the past week for deciding to have a baby while her rapid rise to superstardom is still accelerating. Anti-abortion websites are posting gleeful recaps of an exchange the hip-hop artist had with radio host Charlamagne Tha God last Tuesday, whenÃâà...
Press Herald
April 16, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a pastor who challenged a Maine law's noise limit that was used to restrict his anti-abortion protest outside Planned Parenthood's Portland clinic. The decision by the nation's highest court not to hear arguments in the case effectively affirms theÃâà...
CNN
April 11, 2018
Ealing council leader Julian Bell said the issue of proximity of anti-abortion protests to the clinic has a "clear detrimental effect" on women using the services, those supporting them and clinic staff members. The order -- which lasts three years -- goes into effect April 23 and pushes any demonstrations to aÃâà...
New York Magazine
April 6, 2018
Clearly, Trump (described by some conservative evangelical backers as a “baby Christian” just learning the ropes) hadn't learned this was a big no-no among anti-abortion activists, who quickly brow-beat him into backtracking. National Right to Life explained the party line: “Unborn children and theirÃâà...
Bustle
March 29, 2018
But as the vote approaches, anti-abortion protesters have taken to the streets in Dublin — and not all of them are Irish. In fact, there are some Americans protesting abortion in Ireland, sparking concerns of foreign influence on the upcoming referendum. Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has called forÃâà...
Rewire
March 29, 2018
In our polarized political climate, we've seen incendiary anti-abortion rhetoric like this fuel fears and hateful behavior that often becomes violence. Admitted killer Robert Lewis Dear Jr., referred to the debunked and doctored smear campaign directed at Planned Parenthood as part of his motive for enteringÃâà...
The Hill
March 29, 2018
State lawmakers and anti-abortion groups across the U.S. have ramped up their push for restrictions on abortion, part of a strategy to get the Supreme Court to re-examine — and overturn — Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion. Emboldened by the Trump administration and possibleÃâà...
Vox
March 29, 2018
In the past few months, America has seen a wave of states introduce anti-abortion legislation. Mississippi's governor has signed into law a bill that bans abortion after 15 weeks (except in the case of severe fetal abnormalities or medical emergencies); the governor of Louisiana, a Democrat, has voicedÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
A judge has lifted an injunction a council brought against anti-abortion activists protesting near a hospital. The Christian movement, called 40 Days for Life, held "vigils" outside the abortion clinic at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. The city council obtained an injunction to stop the group's leader JohnÃâà...
New York Times
March 26, 2018
At times, he has even veered to the right of the mainstream anti-abortion movement, as when he said during a primary season town hall event that women who seek abortions should face “some form of punishment.” Most anti-abortion politicians profess to want to protect women, even when they pass lawsÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
She asked that her surname not be used, fear that the agonizing decision she made could be used to shame her. But even in Poland, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country with some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in Europe and a government seeking to curb reproductive rights, it is a decision sheÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 23, 2018
Anti-abortion measures gained ground across the country this week, with lawmakers in Kentucky passing a measure that, if signed into law, would be one of the most restrictive measures in the nation, and Idaho's governor signing a law requiring doctors to report to the state how many abortions a womanÃâà...
JURIST
March 22, 2018
[JURIST] A committee of independent experts under the UN Human Rights Council [official website] on Thursday urged [press release] the Polish parliament to reject a proposed bill that would further restrict abortion rights in Poland. The bill would ban abortion in situations where there is a severe fetalÃâà...
Vox
March 22, 2018
Anti-abortion groups for years have been trying to close Jackson Women's Health, also known as “the pink house” for the building's bright paint. But the Mississippi law may also be part of a broader effort by anti-abortion advocates to bring a challenge to Roe v. Wade before what they hope will be a friendlyÃâà...
NewBostonPost (blog)
March 22, 2018
Bills that would prevent abortions after a fetus is able to live outside a mother's womb, require a 24-hour waiting period for abortions, and allow medical professionals not to perform any tasks that violate their consciences all failed in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The s0-called fetal viability bill got theÃâà...
Progressive.org
March 22, 2018
The subsequent rift in Texas's powerful anti-abortion movement has highlighted an ever-present tension over the separation of church and state. In practice, this separation typically goes only one way: preventing state interference in religion, while church authorities remain free to influence the publicÃâà...
Newsweek
March 22, 2018
Activists from the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List helped push endangered pro-life Democratic incumbent Dan Lipinski over the finish line on Tuesday night, giving him a slim victory over his challenger, newcomer Marie Newman. Now, the group is focusing on its next big task: Taking downÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 21, 2018
Rep. Dan Lipinski, one of the few anti-abortion Democrats in Congress, narrowly defeated a political newbie in the Illinois primary on Tuesday night, dashing the hopes of progressives who believe the seven-term congressman is too conservative for the modern-day Democratic Party. Lipinski's opponentÃâà...
HuffPost
March 20, 2018
The theme of this year's march was crisis pregnancy centers, which are fake clinics with anti-abortion agendas that exist to shame and mislead women seeking abortion care. This was timely, for fake clinics are the subject of a Supreme Court case, NIFLA v. Becerra, in which oral arguments are taking placeÃâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List has taken the unusual step of campaigning for a Democratic lawmaker. But critically, with competitive GOP primaries on Tuesday's docket as well, the group isn't encouraging Republicans to cross over into the Democratic primary to vote for Lipinski. LipinskiÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 20, 2018
With anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators rallying outside, the Supreme Court heard National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra on Tuesday morning, the blockbuster case that could shift the law of the land on free speech and abortion rights. During oral arguments, justicesÃâà...
NPR
March 20, 2018
DAVID CHIU: There are thousands of fake health clinics around our country, 370 in the state of California that are unfortunately deceiving women. TOTENBERG: But Michael Farris, who represents the anti-abortion clinics, said the statute unconstitutionally compels his clients to point women to places whereÃâà...
Phoenix New Times
March 14, 2018
Family planning decisions are personal." Added Representative Kirstin Engel, a Democrat from Tucson, "This not only intrudes on a women's privacy, but inserts government into the doctor-patient relationship." The bill was developed by Cathi Herrod, an anti-abortion fanatic whose Center for Arizona PolicyÃâà...
The Times
March 14, 2018
The man portrayed as a nurse for an anti-abortion campaign held an eight-month portering role and falsified a qualification document. Save the 8th, which campaigns against repeal of the Eighth Amendment, said yesterday it stood by the adverts despite discovering that Noel Pattern, 48, from Wexford, wasÃâà...
Heavy.com
March 14, 2018
The Pope said after centuries of practice in its staunch anti-abortion position, wherein only bishops could forgive a woman who had an abortion, he extended that power to priests. Abortion was a mortal sin in the church and could lead to excommunication. Francis' historic edict was in line with the theme ofÃâà...
The Independent Florida Alligator
March 14, 2018
The signs she saw were put up by Created Equal, an anti-abortion training program for younger generations to debate abortion on college campuses around America, said Mark Harrington, president of the organization. The program facilitates Justice Rides, which are week-long events where activists canÃâà...
TheStranger.com
March 14, 2018
Yesterday, in eyeroll emojis: ThinkProgress reported on a 19-year-old woman who visited anti-abortion centers that pose as clinics and lure women in with the promise of free pregnancy testing, then try to coerce them into staying pregnant with misinformation about abortion. This isn't a new practice—IÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 13, 2018
The legislation, which was passed along party lines with all 11 Democrats voting against the bill, is the latest in a slew of anti-abortion bills that have advanced in the Idaho legislature in recent months. Similar bills recently advanced in Indiana and Arizona. SB 1243 already passed in the Senate and is nowÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 12, 2018
The end goal of the anti-abortion movement in America has never been a series of incremental, piecemeal abortion restrictions in red states: Their objective is nothing less then a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and, preferably, federal legislation making abortion illegal even in states,Ãâà...
BBC News
March 10, 2018
An anti-abortion rally, in favour of retaining the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution, has taken place ahead of a referendum later this year. The eighth amendment, which grants equal right to life to the unborn and pregnant women in the Republic of Ireland, was introduced in 1983. It effectively bansÃâà...
The Hill
March 9, 2018
House Democratic leaders are rallying behind Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) as he faces the toughest primary contest in his 14 years on Capitol Hill. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Ãâ÷ Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiLawmakers feel pressure on guns Former Pelosi challenger: I have no 'interest inÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 9, 2018
The Mississippi Legislature has passed one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country, banning abortions after 15 weeks, even in the case of rape or incest. Mississippi Republican Governor Phil Bryant has signaled he'll sign the bill, tweeting, “As I have repeatedly said, I want Mississippi to beÃâà...
LifeZette
March 9, 2018
Anti-abortion groups are particularly worried about the high proportion of women choosing to terminate fetuses with Down syndrome after prenatal testing, which has become increasingly safe and sophisticated in the past decade. This year wasn't the first time OneLife LA has featured a speaker onÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 9, 2018
Anti-abortion groups are praising a Mississippi bill that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. March 8, 2018, at 6:16 p.m. ... Anti-abortion group Pro-Life Mississippi said fetuses in the womb "deserve the right to life, which is supported by this bill." The group said in a statement that it appreciates legislators'Ãâà...
