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Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio Advertisers

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By John Avlon - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”

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Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Mar. 04 (Fact Check) - As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi that are designed to strike fear in the hearts of Republican voters. There's been some piling on. We've seen several examples where two (or more) candidates have made the same attack. The one candidate who hasn't been attacked much: Ron Paul. He's has been busy attacking others — but we didn’t find ads attacking him. ... >>More

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The health care law, Catholics and birth control

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Feb. 10 (Fact Check) - Is President Barack Obama’s administration requiring the Catholic Church to provide birth control coverage to nuns? As rhetoric rises in a clash between Catholic leaders and the federal government over a rule requiring co-pay-free coverage of contraceptives in most health plans, here’s a guide. What the rule says The newly final rule stems from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 — what Republican presidential candidates call "Obamacare." It affects the health plans employers offer their ... >>More

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Mitt Romney Refuses To Sign Pro-Life Pledge

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Ward - Jun. 18 (News) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has refused to sign a pledge being circulated by a pro-life group, citing concerns with the language used in the pact.

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Restricting Choice

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AU.org - By Sandhya Bathija - Jun. 09 (News Report) - In March, Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a measure that requires women to consult with a “crisis pregnancy center” (CPC) and wait at least 72 hours before going forward with a pregnancy termination. According to Sedor and other reproductive justice and civil liberties groups, the law is the equivalent of an all-out state abortion ban. Already, access to the procedure was extremely limited within the state, she said.

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Kansas Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead For Rape: ‘I Have A Spare Tire’

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Tanya Somanader - May. 25 (News Report) - DeGraaf’s belief that women should plan and prepare for their own rape is more than groan-worthy, it’s woefully out-of-touch. As Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann notes, DeGraaf is basically telling sexual assault victims that “the state isn’t AAA” so a Kansas woman is responsible for the consequences of her attacker. And by comparing it to life insurance, DeGraaf goes further to insinuate that rape is as inevitable as death. Unfortunately, this Boy Scout dismissal of rape and incest victims is as galling as it is common among the GOP.

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Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Michelle Goldberg - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Utah prosecutors and conservative politicians are determined to lock up the young woman known in court filings as J.M.S. for the crime of trying to end her pregnancy. Her grim journey through the legal system began in 2009, when she was 17 and pregnant by a convicted felon named Brandon Gale

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Jon Kyl: Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson, Bill Adair - Apr. 08 (News Report) - As the government inched toward a shutdown on April 8, 2011, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., gave a speech on the Senate floor to respond to Democratic charges that the major sticking point in the negotiations was a disagreement over Planned Parenthood. Many Repu

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10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

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GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

theittlist.com - By Lindsay Beyerstein - Mar. 03 (News Report) - We all have our limits. The GOP’s crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent op/ed column, Scaife broke with House Republicans over their resolution to de-fund Planned Parenthood and the entire Title X family planning program, Scot Kersgaard reports in the Minnesota Independent.

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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Feb. 15 (News Report) - A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.

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Puzzling Times

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Michael New - Jan. 31 (News Analysis) - The Sunday edition of the New York Times featured a shrill house editorial complaining about ongoing efforts to enact state level pro-life laws. Pro-life proposals to regulate abortion clinics and protect unborn children were deemed “ominous” “big brother measures” and “outrageous government intrusions.” Both the timing and tone of this editorial are puzzling. Just last week Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was charged with eight counts of murder for using scissors to kill babies delivered alive in his abortion mill. His clinic was described by regulators as a “filthy, foul smelling house of horrors.” In light of this, the New York Times must be the only newspaper in the country which believes that abortion clinics are somehow over-regulated.

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The Same Old Pandering, Hypocrisy and Legislated Morality

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

sensen-no-sen.blogspot.com - By Pbi - Jan. 29 (News Analysis) - Despite the debt owed to the Tea Party for their recent electoral success, Republicans have demonstrated very little in the way of genuine respect for the movement's stated principles since the 112th Congress took office.

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The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Jan. 28 (Investigative Report) - Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,"a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would

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Planned Parenthood Calls In The FBI After Series Of O'Keefe-Like Encounters

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Jan. 26 (News Report) - One story I missed in yesterday's State Of The Union hullabaloo was this item from Rachel Slajda over at TPM. It seems that in recent weeks, a bunch of Planned Parenthood clinics have been receiving visits from a man telling the same shady story: In the course of five days this month, eight Planned Parenthood clinics in five states and D.C. reported getting the same visit: A man said he needed treatment for a sexually transmitted disease and then, once alone with a staff member, implied that he ran an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants.

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March for Life 2011

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

National Catholic Register - By Steven D. Greydanus - Jan. 24 (Special Report) - Doubled back in front of Supreme Court building, and yup, there are a few pro-choice counter-demonstrators. Maybe half a dozen. They are absolutely surrounded by a sea of pro-lifers, absolutely cheek to jowl. The pro-choicers are silent; all around them are chanting, happy pro-lifers.

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5 GOP Candidates Who Want to Force Rape Victims to Bear Their Attacker's Child

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tana Ganeva - Oct. 02 (Special Report) - The GOP has always pandered to the right-wing base by promising to strip women of the right to control their own bodies. In the interest of not alienating sane people though, many Republican lawmakers make an exception in cases of incest and rape, and when a mother's life is in danger. But a group of ultra-conservative Republican Senate candidates -- recently propelled to victory in the primaries by Tea Party groups who claim to oppose government intrusion into people's lives -- want the government to force women to carry fetuses to term, even in cases of incest or rape

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Was the Shocking Murder of a Brave Abortion Provider Really the Work of a 'Lone Wolf'?

Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Robb - May. 30 (News Report) - for loners, these guys have a lot of friends. A lot of the same ones, in fact. Over the past six months, I have interviewed Scott Roeder more than a dozen times, met several times with his supporters at the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita where he was tried and convicted, and permissibly recorded numerous three-way telephone conversations Roeder had me place to his friends. Using information gleaned from these sources, along with public records, it is possible to piece together the close, long-term and ongoing relationship between Roeder and other anti-abortion extremists who advocate murder and violent attacks on abortion providers.

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The Abortion Issue

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson - Apr. 02 (News Analysis) - Strictly speaking, the new law does not provide direct federal funding for abortion, except in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother — the same rules that now apply to Medicaid coverage for low-income persons and to the insurance available to federal workers and military families. In fact, the new law states specifically that federal funds are not to be used for coverage of any other kinds of abortions, and that only premium dollars paid by individuals out of their own pockets may be used to pay for coverage of other kinds of abortions.

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The Problem With Pro-Choice Men

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Hugh Ryan - Feb. 05 (News Analysis) - Why do male pro-lifers speak their minds while pro-choice guys refuse to take a stand? Hugh Ryan on the abortion rights movement’s gender divide—and why men are deserting the cause in droves.

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Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By John Nichols - Nov. 09 (News) - The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with ... support from progressive Democrats ... and from a president ... elected with the ... support of progressive voters. But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.

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"Egg-as-Person" Crusade Drives Big Money to Anti-Choice Groups

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Wendy Norris - Aug. 17 (News) - In just five short years, the primary movers and shakers in the absolutist anti-abortion/anti-choice movement seeking to promote the "personhood" of zygotes (the single cell that forms after a sperm fertilizes an egg) have amassed nearly $58 million in tax-deductible contributions for their cause.

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Rep. Ryan 'Booted' From "Democrats For Life Of America" For Supporting Contraception

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lila Shapiro - Jul. 22 (News) - Ryan said he tried to convince officials with Democrats For Life of America, which he referred to Monday as a "fringe group," that the use of contraception is needed as part of any plan to reduce unintended pregnancies but that failed.

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Pregnancy "options" counselors: Give birth!

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Tracy Clark-Flory - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - It's quite simple: Students visit these sham clinics seeking so-called "pregnancy options counseling" and then share their experience. The result is a slew of first-hand accounts that have all the elements of a good thriller: Lies, manipulation and dangerous deception. That won't come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about these politically-motivated "medical" centers, which have been heaped with millions of federal dollars over the years.

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Wash . Post latest to omit Sebelius' Catholic support

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Washington Post article quoted the president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute saying of secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius: "That she is a dissident Catholic is a further slap in the face to Catholics and the Catholic Church." But the article did not note that President Obama's selection of Sebelius has received support from Catholics United and numerous other Catholics.

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