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Jackie Speier: 5 Facts About the Congresswoman Who Discussed Her Abortion [VIDEO]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsThe floor of the House of Representatives frequently hosts passionate debates about issues like health care, war and the economy. But last night, a heated discussion about a proposed amendment that would cut federal funds for Planned Parenthood took an unexpectedly personal turn. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., abandoned her prepared remarks and revealed that, years ago, she had an abortion because of a medical complication with her pregnancy. Watch: So who is Speier? Here's what Surge Desk has learned. 1. Jonestown survivor Perhaps the most notable highlight of Speier's biography is ...
'Personhood' Abortion Issue Is Back on the Colorado Ballot
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyDENVER -- Twenty-three college students pace along the sidewalk, reciting the rosary, holding their beads. Completing their prayers, they head across the street to their cars. It's just another day in their mission with Christ in the City, sponsored by Denver's Catholic Charities. It's also just another day at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, where inside men and women are coming and going from the busy medical clinic that provides health care, birth control and, yes, abortions. The protesters -- and the Christ in the City kids are considered particularly peaceful -- are often part ...
Abortion Rights Backers Threaten Primaries, 'No' Votes on Health
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere's nothing like a painful, unexpected defeat to focus the mind and, potentially, the money. For supporters of abortion rights, that moment arrived when the House added to its historic health bill an amendment that would limit abortion coverage and those who can buy it. Anger, frustration and threats are in the air. It's too early to say whether the abortion rights lobby is a sleeping giant, but it is definitely, some would say finally, awake. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL ProChoice America, was in a fighting mood in an interview on Monday. "There's elections coming up in 2010. We will ...
Abortion, Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThere is a disquieting reason Ruth Bader Ginsburg's defenders have been denying, however implausibly, the clear meaning of the Supreme Court justice's recent remarks about the history of abortion law, and that reason is this: Historically, eugenics has always been a significant component of the intellectual underpinnings – and political impetus – of the movement to legalize abortion. ...
Top 5 Reasons it Sucks to Be Sarah Palin
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOver the past week, a fresh new trove of Sarah Palin stories has been offered up to the American people, making plain, once again, that meteoric fame often comes with a hefty pricetag. In the five months since she was plucked from relative obscurity to become John McCain's running mate, Palin has resided on the very sharp blade of a double-edged sword. With her pit bull campaign role, delivering the harshest lines of attack against Barack Obama, Palin quickly became a woman that you loved, or loved to hate. Well, that hasn't changed. But a few recent developments, as magnified by the ...
Obama Reverses Himself on Abortion Policy Reversal
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe plan was for President Barack Obama to reverse the so-called Mexico City policy restricting funding to international family planning organizations that perform, sponsor, or counsel abortions overseas on his first or second day in office. But the plan did not survive contact with the Oval Office. President Obama reportedly will delay a decision on reversing the policy, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan and alternately reversed and reinstated by successive Democratic and Republican administrations, until at least Friday. Or he could sell to have Congress overturn the ...
Does McCain Have a Problem With Women?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to blogger and radio host Taylor Marsh, the answer is pretty clear. Monday's incident, in which John McCain volunteered his wife for a topless beauty contest at the Sturgis, South Dakota biker bash, is but one more instance of what Marsh sees as a pattern of sexist behavior from the Arizona Senator:Hello, all of you anti Obama zealots, got misogyny? That's your man, John McCain, a where's Pakistan?, Sunni or Shia - who cares?, bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, Take my wife topless please, kind of guy. You can add McCain offering up his wife for a topless contest to what John McCain once said ...
Taxing for Abortion
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyTwo abortion-related matters are presently occupying the attention of folks in Washington. First, the Mexico City Policy is under review. Announced by President Reagan in 1984, the policy prohibits U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding NGOs performing or advancing abortions as a method of family planning in other countries. The White House has issued a memorandum in support of the policy, stating in part: "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad." Also, President Bush is awarding the ...
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