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Six Anti-Abortion Protesters Arrested Outside Speaker Boehner's Office
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyCongress isn't in session this week, but that didn't stop anti-abortion protesters from blocking the hallway outside of the Capitol Hill office of House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner (R-Ohio) wasn't there, and the six demonstrators were arrested and charged with unlawful assembly, the Associated Press reported. The protest was meant to pressure Republican leaders to stick with the $317 million defunding of Planned Parenthood that was part of the $61 billion spending reduction included last week in a House-approved budget bill. Related Stories Planned Parenthood ...
Planned Parenthood Hoax Video: Instant Reactions
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsLive Action, a conservative anti-abortion group, posted footage today showing some of its members portraying sex traffickers seeking guidance at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The edited video supposedly shows the clinic employee "turning a blind eye to underage prostitution." It quickly drew debate from bloggers across the Internet, raising questions surrounding Planned Parenthood's mission, the specific employee's behavior, Live Action's history and the legitimacy of the video editing itself. Watch the video below: Here are a wide range of viewpoints on the clip, courtesy of Surge ...
Anti-Abortion Pastor Found Guilty of Stalking Physicians
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyPhilip "Flip" Benham of Operation Save America has been found guilty of two charges of stalking doctors who perform abortions, reports Ms. Magazine. A North Carolina court on Monday ruled that "Wanted" posters Benham distributed earlier this year violated a new state law. The posters included the names, addresses and photos of four Charlotte physicians. Operation Save America had called Benham's actions a free-speech issue. The ordained Christian minister was sentenced to two years of probation. A detective with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in an NPR report that when ...
Tea Party Candidate's Graphic Anti-Abortion Ad Banned on YouTube, but Not TV
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- An anti-abortion ad by Washington, D.C., tea party candidate Missy Smith has achieved an unlikely distinction of being banned on YouTube while still being allowed -- actually, constitutionally protected -- on local television. The ad, which features extremely graphic pictures of aborted late-term fetuses, was deemed by YouTube to violate the site's policy on posting "shocking or disgusting content," ABC News reported. But television stations in the D.C. area will run the spot along with a warning to viewers about its graphic content. After noting that she had had two ...
FDA Approves Ella, a 5-Mornings-After Contraception Pill
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- If the morning-after contraception pill Plan B proved controversial, the newly approved "ella" should prove five times as much. The Food and Drug administration today gave the green light to ella, which boasts of being able to prevent unwanted pregnancies for up to five days after sexual intercourse. Also known by its generic name, ulipristal acetate, ella, like RU-486, blocks progesterone activity in a woman's body, The Washington Post reported, thereby delaying the ovaries from producing an egg. While that suppression means that, in most cases, sperm will never have the ...
Sarah Palin Hits Washington on Friday for Anti-Abortion Fundraiser
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySarah Palin hits Washington on Friday to headline a sold out fundraiser for an anti-abortion group, the Susan B. Anthony List at the Ronald Reagan Building, down the street from the White House. Meanwhile, Palin is readying her second book, due out in November, titled, "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag." Palin is such a draw that the annual Susan B. Anthony event was revamped from a tea to a larger "Celebration of Life Breakfast," with some 550 attending, the most the room can hold. Tickets range from $150 to $25,000, which includes a VIP reception. A spokesman for ...
Abortion Tweeter Sets Sparks Flying Across Internet
By Mara Gay - AOL News(March 12) -- Some say Angie Jackson took Twitter a tweet too far. When the 27-year-old live-tweeted her RU-486-induced abortion last month, she spared no details. "Okay, the pain starting to get distracting," she wrote. "Definitely bleeding now." In a country that's bitterly divided over abortion, the storm of controversy Jackson generated, even among abortion-rights supporters, was unsurprising. "At its worst, it is self-serving, exhibitionist and selfish," Mary Ann Sorrentino, the former director for Planned Parenthood in Rhode Island, wrote Tuesday on Salon.com. "At best, it has 'bad ...
Nebraska Bill Would Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Nebraska lawmakers have found a new tactic in the fight against abortion: If a fetus can feel pain, they say, it cannot be aborted. So they are moving forward with the Abortion Pain Prevention Act, a bill aimed at ending the "substantial pain" to the "unborn child" caused by abortion. If the bill passes, the state will become the first in the country to forbid abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother's life is threatened. If the bill passes, it likely will be challenged in the Supreme Court. The vast majority of abortions, just under 90 percent, take place before ...
Roe v. Wade Supporter Scott Brown, Improbable Pro-Life Hero
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe huge crowd of abortion opponents that gathered on the Mall in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life had good reason to be celebrating on the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Recent polls have shown broad declines in public support for abortion, to the point that the country is almost evenly divided between supporters of abortion rights (47 percent) and opponents (44 percent). Moreover, the election of a pro-choice president after two terms of George W. Bush has galvanized rather than discouraged the pro-life movement, to the point that abortion ...
Abortion Foes Claim New Momentum
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 22) – Thousands of abortion opponents trudged up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court once again Friday in the annual ritual known as the March for Life. But on this, the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, there were signs they were marching with a renewed sense of direction. "This is an exciting time to be in the pro-life movement," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, which organized a "Virtual March for Life" of more than 75,000 avatars to join the actual throng on the National Mall. "A year ago, we were facing unprecedented opposition, seeing ...
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