In the forty years since Roe v. Wade was passed, there has been an increasing trend on the part of states to circumvent the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion by restricting women’s access to the procedure and penalizing doctors who perform it. Now the federal government is getting in on the anti-choice action.
Last week, The House Judiciary Committee approved a [...]
Kermit Gosnell’s Shop Of Horrors
Who is Kermit Gosnell?
That’s a good question … like Josef Mengele, his name ought to be reviled all over the world, but the mainstream media here in the United States has chosen to largely ignore his story. For those of you who have never heard of him Gosnell, 72, ran a pair of “women’s health” [...]
Mitt Romney Flip Flops On Abortion (Again)
GOP NOMINEE SOFTENS LANGUAGE ON DEFENDING THE UNBORN
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was for abortion before he was against it … before he was for it again. At least that’s what his latest rhetoric on the issue suggests. It’s all in a day’s work for the walking Etch A Sketch … who has yet to [...]
Way To Go “Republicans”
THE DAMAGE DONE BY TODD AKIN’S RAPE COMMENTS
According to a Survey USA poll taken last week, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Missouri) enjoyed a comfortable 11-point lead over incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in one of several races that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. In fact Aiken enjoyed an especially large 53-39 percent [...]
Lee Bright Releases Pro-Life Video
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Abortion Versus Breast Health
Okay … that headline is an admittedly false pretense, but let’s be real. Isn’t our job as unaccountable bloggers to provide juvenile oversimplifications of current events in order to assist global spread of attention deficit disorder?
Exactly … and we take our “tip of the spear’ role in the vanguard of current thought very seriously.
Anyway, in [...]
Protect “Accidental” Births
We typically don’t waste much ink on social conservative issues around here. And while we’re decidedly pro-life, we don’t devote much verbiage to our position on abortion because we can see both sides of that debate.
We’re fiscal conservatives/ social libertarians … with an emphasis on protecting tax dollars ahead of everything else.
Having said that, as [...]
Abortion Rate Unchanged
After nearly three decades of steady decline, the abortion rate in the United States held steady in 2008 according to data released by the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit reproductive health foundation that was created under the auspices of Planned Parenthood.
According to the institute’s data, there were 1.21 million abortions performed in the United States in [...]
News Release: Sanford Signs Waiting Period Bill
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MARK SANFORD, GOVERNOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ben Fox 803-734-2100 bfox@gov.sc.gov
Governor Signs Bill Establishing 24-Hour Waiting Period Before Abortions
Columbia, S.C. – August 18, 2010 – Joined by state lawmakers [...]
Nebraska Governor Signs Abortion Restrictions
By FITSNews || Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law two new restrictions on abortion in the Cornhusker State on Tuesday.
Under the new laws, abortion would be outlawed in Nebraska after 20 weeks of pregnancy and any woman seeking an abortion would be screened first for mental health issues, among other possible problems. The first [...]
