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May 6, 2012
In Arizona and Texas, A Planned Parenthood Free-for-All
"Family planning:" The wholly innocent term infuriates the pro-life community. To them, it connotes Big Government abortions, the movie Juno and everything that is "morally wrong" with women's reproductive health (apparently, there is a lot). Since the female health service organization Planned ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 25, 2012
WILL BOWL FOR CASH
Hit the lanes for a good cause
Film
March 21, 2012
October Baby
Hit the lanes for a good cause
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March 14, 2012
New York's Reproductive Health Act: What You Need To Know
It's Cardinal Timothy Dolan Week (no, really), and the conservative Catholic leader has certainly not let the eponymous 7-day shindig go to waste. Dolan made the rounds in Albany on Monday, where he and other top Catholics made clear their anti-abortion and anti-pedophilia prosecution positions. ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Mitt Romney Thinks He Can Just "Get Rid" Of Planned Parenthood (Which He Can't) -- And New York Dems Are Pissed!
Former Massachusetts governor/wannabe GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's currently catching some heat from the left over comments he made about his desire to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood -- something he has no authority to do, even if he is elected president.One of those worked up over R ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Rick Santorum Opposes Prenatal Testing, Women
Rick Santorum doesn't think that insurance companies should have to pay for a simple diagnostic test that determines whether a baby will be born sick or severely disabled. Santorum, who is so anti-abortion that he would make his own daughter carry a rape-baby to term, thinks that amniocente ... More >>
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February 19, 2012
Virginia Wants to Wand Your Vagina. Rightbloggers are Outraged (That You'd Complain)
The week before last, some Catholic organizations were told they'd have to allow their insurance providers to offer (at their own cost) birth control to their employees. Rightbloggers were outraged at this violation of the Catholic orgs' civil rights. Last week, the Virginia legislature passed a bi ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: Guns are OK, Planned Parenthood Is Not
More unsettling developments in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure shitshow. The breast cancer advocacy group cut $680,000 in screening grants to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, saying that the organization could not give money to groups that are under congressional investigation. ( ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Planned Parenthood NYC: Breast Cancer Screenings Will Continue in the City
The battle has finally been won against...breast cancer screenings? Yes, you read that right and yes, it's OK to get really pissed off, ladies. Amid sustained pressure from right-to-life groups (and the congressmen they support), Susan G. Komen for the Cure -- the nation's main breast can ... More >>
News
November 30, 2011
America’s Top Heathen
Odin himself might have had a hard time predicting Dan Halloran’s strange career on New York’s City Council
Blogs
September 19, 2011
Lizz Winstead Tells Us Why She Wants to Make Planned Parenthood Like LensCrafters
Photo by Mindy TuckerLizz Winstead is a wee bit tired. She's been traveling since June 14 with her "Planned Parenthood, I'm Here For You!" Comedy Tour, which has spanned 12 cities and 10 states. Plus she's been working on her upcoming book, out in June of 2012. All this activity "does energiz ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Eleanor Bergstein, Screenwriter, Talks Dirty Dancing
WikipediaAt Monday night's screening of Dirty Dancing, hosted by Jezebel for the New York Abortion Access Fund at Cinema Village, one attendee asked screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein to entertain the audience with what would have been some fan fiction. "I'm wondering if in your mind you have an ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Q&A: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino On Planned Parenthood, Her First "Sex Talk," And Being A Role Model
Yesterday morning a vote by North Carolina's legislature overrode Governor Bev Perdue's veto of the state's budget, and as one of the consequences North Carolina became the third state in recent weeks to cut all public funding to Planned Parenthood programs. Proponents of the measure relied ... More >>
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April 23, 2011
It's As If Jon Kyl Never Even Opened His Mouth
Is this smirk intended to be a factual statement?Arizona Senator Jon "Cowardly Lyin'" Kyl's egregiously, ludicrously wrong not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement about Planned Parenthood's abortion services has been stricken from the Congressional record. It's as though it never even happened ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
On Shutdown Budget Deal, Rightbloggers Agree: Planned Parenthood is Evil
Last week's threatened shutdown of the federal government over the budget was averted, at least temporarily, by a compromise plan. The compromise throws the big-spending Democrats into reverse, and gives Republicans who had promised sweeping cuts a small, face-saving victory. Now onto the next ... More >>
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April 9, 2011
Planned Parenthood Care Chart vs. NPR Spending Chart
After last night's late budget compromise and extension, Planned Parenthood has been protected from any government spending cuts (so far). Yesterday, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein posted a graph from Planned Parenthood demonstrating what activities they perform (abortion is excluded from f ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 23, 2011
PLAN ON IT
A political rally you can dance to
Voice Choices
March 16, 2011
CLINIC COMEDY
Look at this fucking House of Representatives
Blogs
March 2, 2011
About That Fetus Called to Testify in Court...
Yesterday we wrote about the 9-week-old fetus "called to testify in court" as part of anti-abortion group Faith2Action's oh-so-dramatic effort to convince Ohio legislators to pass the so-called Heartbeat Bill, which would outlaw abortions after a fetus's first detectable heartbeat. If passed, ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Fetus Called to Testify in Court
Janet Folger Porter, president of anti-abortion group Faith2Action, has called a 9-week-old fetus to testify before Ohio's House Health Committee in favor of legislation that would outlaw abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. We have many questions about this.
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February 23, 2011
Abortion Billboard in SoHo Calls Out African Americans During Black History Month
Life Always, an anti-abortion group, revealed a giant new billboard today at Sixth Avenue and Watts Street in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, featuring a picture of a young black girl and text that reads, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Underneath is ... More >>
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February 19, 2011
Glenn Beck Accuses Planned Parenthood of Abetting Sex Trafficking (Video)
via Fox NewsIn Glenn Beck's universe, Planned Parenthood is not just an organization that provides reproductive health care and education to those in need of it. Planned Parenthood, as he "revealed" during his program yesterday, is a nefarious ring of criminals involved in child sex trafficking. ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
House Votes to Block Federal Aid For Planned Parenthood
The House of Representatives voted Friday afternoon to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding by a count of 240-185. The measure was led by GOP Rep. Mike Pence, who argues that the government should not support organizations that "provide or promote" abortion. The group last ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2011
Would a South Dakota Bill Legalize the Murder of Abortion Doctors?
There's a law being put forth in South Dakota by Rep. Phil Jensen that's getting a lot of attention as it seems as if it would effectively allow for -- perhaps even promote -- the murder of abortion doctors. The law seeks to make killings intended to prevent harm to a fetus part of the defini ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
"Forcible Rape" Back to Just Regular "Rape" in House Bill
The biggest problem in the House of Representatives at the moment is Chris Smith's "No Taxpayer for Abortion" Act, which seeks to limit women's choices in reproductive matters by doing things like banning federal funding for abortions in rape cases. Also an issue, though, was the bill's langu ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Philly Abortion Doc Murdered Babies With Scissors, Prosecutors Say
A Philly abortion doctor -- he wasn't even an OB/GYN but just a general practitioner -- is accused of the grisly murders of viable babies after he illegally plucked them from the wombs of women in their last trimester. The babies were born alive, say prosecutors, and then Dr. Kenneth Gosnell used ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Catholic Church Abortion-Shames New Yorkers, But of Course They're Missing the Point
Abortion. Saying the word in the midst of a cocktail party will hush even the most intrepid of irreverent souls. Because even if you're pro-choice, you can't actually be pro-abortion, at least not in any public fashion. Baby killing is always, always, always bad. Right? Which is perhaps why t ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
The 2010 Rightblogger War on Christmas Special -- Featuring Abortion Gift Certificates!
Merry War on Christmas! This conflict has been dragging on for years, which is not entirely a bad thing, as it has produced a thriving War on Christmas industry, which our economy desperately needs. The opportunities for outrage this year are slim, but where there's a rightblogger, there's a way, w ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
Before Roe v. Wade: Fighting Over Abortion in Albany
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 12 A holy war in Albany for the 'Right to Life' By Robin Reisig The New York State legislature is probably going to practice medicine again this spring. Abortion medicine. Catholics opposed to killing "th ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Pre-Roe v. Wade, Abortion in NYC Still Difficult in 1970
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 42 The New Abortion Law: Back to the Quacks By Robin Reisig If you need an abortion after next Monday, when New York City's new health code on abortions becomes law, you may find yourself driven back to " ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
NARAL's Endorsement of Eric Schneiderman: The Backstory
NARAL New York just produced a video and hosted a press conference for Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic candidate for attorney general. NARAL has yet to even endorse Andrew Cuomo, the sitting attorney general who is running for governor. Yet it is governors who shape abortion policy; Ne ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2010
Eric Schneiderman's Numbers Don't Look So Hot, Victory and All
If you've never heard of Jay Townsend, guess what? He runs a small marketing firm and lives in Cornwall on the Hudson and last night he got at least 10,000 more votes than Eric Schneiderman (http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/primary_2010_returns/). Townsend is now the Republican cand ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2010
Q&A: Against Me!'s Tom Gabel on Anarchists, Anti-Abortion Billboards, Alternative Press Magazine
tkTom is the one in black. Against Me! leader Tom Gabel is the sort of lyricist that can't stop himself from contemplating the folly of Robert McNamara's foreign policy decisions mid-song, and he's the sort of singer that can find a way to make the former Secretary of Defense's quirky name positive ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
When an Abortionist Dies
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 30, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 16 Dr. Spencer, 1889-1969: Last Trip to Ashland by Susan Brownmiller One month, to the date, before his death last Tuesday, I was privileged to meet the legendary Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer. The trip to ... More >>
Film
June 8, 2010
A Quick Look at BAMcinemaFEST Docs: 12th & Delaware
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 30, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 16 Dr. Spencer, 1889-1969: Last Trip to Ashland by Susan Brownmiller One month, to the date, before his death last Tuesday, I was privileged to meet the legendary Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer. The trip to ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2009
Clip Job: The Abortionist, Before Roe v. Wade
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 18, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 44 The Abortionist on The Circuit of Fear By Marlene Nadle The abortionist is the man hunted by the police and a million desperate women a year. No city can be without him. Few are. In almost ever town ... More >>
Blogs
November 27, 2009
Chatting with a signer of the 'Manhattan Declaration'
This week, 150 Christian religious leaders unveiled the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Christian Conscience, named after our very own borough. It's a manifesto signed by prominent Christian leaders that calls for staunch opposition to things like abortion, gay marriage, and other satatanic ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
RNC Ends Elective Abortion Coverage For their Employees
The buzz in the right-wing blogosphere yesterday was over Politico's scoop that the RNC chose not to opt out of providing elective abortion coverage for their employees, at least until someone found out that's what they were doing. Politico has accommodatingly made an unannounced edit to the ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2009
Rightbloggers Get a Scalp, and Perhaps a Party, in NY-23
On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first. Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2009
Pro-Life Protester, Another Man Shot Dead in Michigan
In front of a high school in Owosso, Michigan, this morning, a longtime anti-abortion activist was gunned down. A car pulled up to where Jim Pouillon, 63, was (as was his custom) disseminating pro-life messages, and the driver pumped several shots into him. The suspect, now in custody but un ... More >>
News
June 17, 2009
The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate
"Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again
Blogs
June 9, 2009
Ross Douthat: Drop Abortion Rights and Your Doctors Will Be Allowed to Live
The first line of promoted blogger Ross Douthat's latest column for the Times: "The case of Dr. George Tiller, murdered just over a week ago in the lobby of his church, helps explain why so many people believe that abortion should be available at any stage of pregnancy." He goes on to say that many ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2009
George Tiller's Abortion Clinic Closes
The Wichita, Kansas clinic run by abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, who was shot dead in church by a rightwing nut connected with the anti-abortion movement, is going to close down. "We are glad that Kansas will not be referred to as the abortion capital of the world," said a spokesman for Kansan ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2009
Barrett: Morning Joe Finally Breaks His Silence About Defending Abortion-Doc Killer
After nearly a week of silence -- 13 hours of television -- Joe Scarborough finally addressed the assassination of George Tiller on Morning Joe at 7 a.m. today. The Voice has blogged twice this week about Scarborough's sustained and awkward silence, a stark contrast to every other show on MSNBC, whi ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Barrett: Hey, Morning Joe, Why Don't You Speak Up?
It's been a long day of silence from the Morning Joe team. Every other major MSNBC show has devoted major segments to the killing of abortion doctor George Tiller. Keith Olbermann devoted most of an hour to it on Monday, and then returned to it for extended, moving coverage on Tuesday. Rachel ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2009
Rightbloggers on Abortion Doctor's Murder: He Had It Coming
Dr. George Tiller, one of the few abortion providers in the state of Kansas and a practitioner of the controversial late-term abortion procedure, was shot and killed today as he served as an usher in a church service. Tiller had been targeted by anti-abortion activists before. Mainstream conservati ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2009
On Notre Dame, Rightbloggers More Catholic Than The Pope
On Sunday President Obama spoke at Notre Dame University, where he had been invited to address graduates of the Catholic school. As the President is pro-choice, this raised some controversy among Catholics. And, to paraphrase Jesus, where two or three are gathered to oppose Obama, there also are ... More >>
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June 9, 2008
Women Politicos Ponder Clinton's Next Move
On Sunday President Obama spoke at Notre Dame University, where he had been invited to address graduates of the Catholic school. As the President is pro-choice, this raised some controversy among Catholics. And, to paraphrase Jesus, where two or three are gathered to oppose Obama, there also are ... More >>
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April 4, 2008
Government Website Caves on 'Abortion' Ban
On Sunday President Obama spoke at Notre Dame University, where he had been invited to address graduates of the Catholic school. As the President is pro-choice, this raised some controversy among Catholics. And, to paraphrase Jesus, where two or three are gathered to oppose Obama, there also are ... More >>
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