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By not in system - AOL NewsAs abortion opponents prepare for their annual March for Life on the Mall in Washington on Monday, pro-life activists are revitalized by the prospect of a Republican-dominated House they view as friendlier to their agenda than at any time since the Jan. 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. ...
Is Tweeting #ihadanabortion a Political Act? Or Just More Oversharing?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyA few days ago #ihadanabortion was trending. In other words, the hashmarked phrase broke into the top ten topics being posted about on the addictive social media and web based bulletin board Twitter. To explain this rather unusual public declaration, Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon writes that tweeting "#ihadanabortion" is a "provocative act," but the purpose of such an exercise is to make it less so. Acknowledging that, the "complexity of women's varying experiences is lost" when reduced to 140 characters, she notes the digitally delivered statement is nevertheless powerful. "Political slogans ...
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 ...
Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Can They Be One and the Same?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThirty-seven years after the Supreme Court ruling legalized abortion, we are still struggling to find the right language to identify the opposing sides in a debate that will likely never end. Those who support abortion rights (or is reproductive rights?) call themselves pro-choice. Yet those who would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned recoil from the label anti-choice, and rightly so, and call themselves pro-life. A lot of the media have adopted the pro-life label as a matter of convenience, which infuriates the other side since those who support reproductive choice (yet another way to say ...
Sarah Palin, NOW Spar Over Tim Tebow's Super Bowl Ad
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe National Organization for Women is firing back at Sarah Palin, who took issue with the group's opposition to a pro-life Super Bowl ad that will feature college football player Tim Tebow, Politico reports. NOW said that Palin, who defended the Focus on the Family-sponsored ad and urged CBS not to "cave" to pressures to pull it, was "missing our point." The 30-second spot will feature Tebow and his mother, Pam, telling the story of her decision not to end her difficult pregnancy with the future Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in 1987. Tebow has said his mother's courage often persuades ...
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 ...
Where the Gay Marriage Debate Should End
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyIt is a wonderful feeling to have a say in something you really believe in. Earlier this month, atop the ballot in Maine, Question 1 gave voters like myself the chance to determine the fate of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Question 1 was a veto – a "Yes" vote would quash marriage equality, a "No" vote would uphold it. Maine's ballots are charmingly low-tech. Two broken arrows – one for yes, the other for no – point at the issues, and it's up to the voter to color in the one he favors. When all was said and done, a majority – 52.7 percent ...
Ginsburg, Roe and Population Control
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyLike Ria, I was happy to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg announce herself a product of affirmative action. In her interview with The New York Times Magazine, Justice Ginsburg says that Columbia University's 1972 decision to offer her tenure as a law professor was motivated by politics. It would be another decade before my alma mater would admit its first female student in the fall of 1983. But it was Justice Ginsburg's comment on another bullet point on the feminist movement's CV that had me reading, then re-reading and then re-reading again. In 1973, one year after her tenure at Columbia began, the ...
Roe v. Wade More Than a Scare Tactic
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe LA Times reports that, although warnings about protecting Roe v Wade (the Supreme Court decision that gives women the right to choose whether to end a pregnancy or not) are viewed by many as the clucking of Chicken Littles (Chickens Little?), the danger is very real this time around.This time, Roe vs. Wade really could hang in the balance If Justices John Paul Stevens, pictured, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg were to be replaced by a staunch conservative, that could tip the majority against abortion rights. The Supreme Court's onetime wide majority in favor of abortion rights has shrunk to one: ...
McCain's 'Maverick' Position on Choice
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBrave New Films has released a short film that really goes to the heart of the problem with John McCain: People don't actually know his positions on a lot of issues. If they did, it might not make a difference, but then again, it might. I'm a firm believer that people deserve to know what they're getting.In this case, the issue is abortion rights, and according to the film, 73% of women in battleground states don't know his true position. I have witnessed this phenomenon personally. I've written about this over and over again. John McCain is anti-choice. Period. In fact, he is the first GOP ...
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