Pelican Project Pro-Life

EMILY’s List has pro-choice women try on bear suits to tell Sarah Palin why she doesn’t speak for them

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Michigan considers a bill requiring that the best machines be available to pregnant women considering termination

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In the race to fill Bart Stupak’s seat, Connie Saltonstall is tossed aside in favor of an anti-choice candidate

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Nairobi As the referendum on Kenya’s new constitution draws near, the debate over abortion is taking centrestage and threatening to derail the two-decade old project.

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The young star of Juno on abortion, learning to roller derby with Smother Theresa, sexism in Hollywood and going green in Halifax In Drew Barrymore’s new film, Whip It , you play a disaffected, teenage beauty queen who discovers herself through roller derby, a rough-and-tumble form of competitive roller skating. Tell us about the character. She’s called Bliss Cavendar. She lives in a small town …

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During the celebration over the passage of healthcare this week, a noticeable number of pro - choicers could be found staring into their drinks and dejectedly contemplating what it all means . Have Democrats sold out pro - choice women?�Were we thrown under the bus? Do Dems owe us now? What does the president’s executive order on abortion mean in real terms? How is it different from the existing …

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Today’s post is from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (forthcoming in early 2010). Joffe is professor of sociology at the University of California-Davis and a researcher at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California-San Francisco, and she contributes to the blog at RHrealitycheck.org.”I have seen the future and it works” goes the old saying. Well, this writer has seen h

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The Republican Party has finally figured out their new platform. They learned a while ago they can’t go around pushing for prayers in schools. Then they caught on even more. They can’t go around preaching pro-life and encouraging homophobia. Then they made the mistake of trying to win the most recent presidential election by pushing for more oil-drilling and warning us that terrorists are ready to pounce at any time. Unfortunately for the Republicans, people are slowly starting to figure

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Image via Wikipedia Abortion was legalized in 1971 after the controversial Supreme Court decision which would come to be known as “Roe v. Wade” was made. Before Roe, abortion was regulated on the state level. There are those that argue, from a strictly Constitutional perspective, that “Roe v. Wade” was an over-reach by the Federal Government, and that the power to determine whether abortion should be legal or not should have been left to the individual states.

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So, I’m next to Richard Saunders as he quickly goes through his arsenal of technology in order to document Dr Rachie’s presentation on quackery. If you enjoyed the presentation in Melbourne and Perth, you’ll be thrilled to know that it’s going down with the same level of acclaim - it’s a great summary of the work that the Australian skeptics are doing and the efforts she’s put into challenging anti-vaccination and the like.The ‘pro-choice’ claims of anti-vaxers just got a laugh. :p Check out her

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