TagsTagsRepublican anti-choice activist Karen Handel is resigning from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, with an angry statement defending her work against Planned Parenthood: Karen Handel Resigns From Komen for the Cure. I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement ...
Susan G. Komen, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Bad Craziness, Misogyny
Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Abortion, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Health Care
Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming is the latest politician to fall for an Onion story and believe it to be genuine news: Congressman Falls for the Onion's Planned Parenthood 'Abortionplex' Story. Rep. Fleming posted on Facebook an Onion story from last year on an "$8 billion Abortionplex" being built by Planned ...
Planned Parenthood, John Fleming, Louisiana, Republican Party, Women's Rights, Abortion, Onion
The ideological bent of Komen Foundation public policy VP Karen Handel really becomes clear in this 2010 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the topic of gay marriage and adoption, in which she says she favors outlawing gay adoptions: Handel Says Gay Parents Not as 'Legitimate' as Hetero Ones. Q: ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right, Karen Handel, Gay Marriage, Adoption, Anti-Gay
Komen Foundation CEO Karen Brinker may have denied that their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood had anything to do with politics, but the religious right activists who've been waging a campaign against Planned Parenthood certainly think otherwise -- and today they're freaking over the Komen Foundation's apparent reversal: Religious ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right
Judging from the statement they released, Planned Parenthood seems to believe the Komen Foundation will restore their funding for breast cancer screening. But is the Komen Foundation just spinning some more? I just got off the phone with a Komen board member, and he confirmed that the announcement does not mean ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right
Apparently, the people in charge of merchandising at the Susan G. Komen Foundation had a little talk with their anti-abortion executives, and today the Komen Foundation is reinstating their Planned Parenthood funding, and apologizing to Planned Parenthood and the American public. Planned Parenthood has released the following statement in response: “The ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Abortion, Right Wing, Religious Right, Breast Cancer, Women's Rights, Misogyny
This video is titled "Straight Talk from Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen," the official response to the outrage that followed the Komen Foundation's defunding of Planned Parenthood breast cancer screening programs. Brinker says their grants to Planned Parenthood were canceled because they have "new standards," ...
Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer, Abortion, Religious Right
Oooo-klahoma. If the state didn't exist, the Onion would have to invent it. Today's story of totally insane right wing fear-mongering is brought to you by GOP State Sen. Ralph Shortey, who is very upset about food products that contain aborted fetuses. Not a joke, of course. It's simply impossible to ...
Oklahoma, Republican Party, Ralph Shortey, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Idiocy
In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, Rick Santorum spelled out the inhuman belief system behind the anti-abortion crazies: Santorum To Rape Victims: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'. SANTORUM: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, ...
Rick Santorum, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Inhuman, Republican Party, Fanaticism
If anyone ever asks again why I left ... no, ran away from the right, here's one of the main reasons: the utter heartlessness of a party so morally bankrupt that it would force women to bear the babies of rapists and incestuous family members. Gingrich: I 'Wouldn't Make Exceptions' ...
newt gingrich, Anti-Choice, Abortion, Heartless Bastard, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights
It's horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker's child. There's nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry (who previously supported rape/incest exceptions) ...
Abortion, Anti-Choice, Religious Right, Rick Perry, Women's Rights, Misogyny
The radical anti-choice movement called "Personhood" is holding a "National Presidential Pro-Life Forum" tonight in Iowa, sponsored by a collection of the farthest right religious groups in America. Attending this gathering of fanatics: Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry. It's being broadcast on the radio show of Iowa ...
Republican Party, Religious Right, Personhood, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Women's Rights, Evolution
The religious right's misogynistic "Personhood" bill may have been defeated by voters in Mississippi (one of the most conservative states in the nation), but that hasn't stopped GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry from co-signing a pledge to support the ultimate anti-choice ideology. In a ...
Republican Party, Personhood, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Abortion
Here's Mitt Romney in 1994, speaking passionately against imposing one's religious beliefs on other people, and in favor of abortion rights, telling a story about a close family friend who "passed away from an illegal abortion." According to Romney, since that tragic incident he's been a steadfast supporter of the ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Abortion, Women's Rights, Extremism, Religious Right
The Southern Baptist Convention has stopped making a special pink Bible they sold to help support breast cancer screenings, and is recalling all the remaining copies, because they're contaminated by proximity to the demonic Planned Parenthood. Lifeway Christian Resources no longer markets the pink-bound version of The Holman Christian Standard ...
Pink Bibles, Southern Baptist Convention, Fundamentalism, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Women's Rights
Fantastic news: the insanely misogynistic "personhood" bill has been defeated in Mississippi. But they're not giving up. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a ...
Abortion, Personhood, Religious Right, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Mississippi
Here's a very interesting and enlightening piece about one of the right wing's most demonized figures: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood: Was Planned Parenthood's founder racist? Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger is back in the news this week thanks to GOP presidential candidate and abortion rights opponent Herman Cain, ...
Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, Right Wing, Demonization, Abortion, Women's Rights
Interesting development in the right wing war on women's rights: there are actually some religious groups beginning to get uncomfortable with the implications of the crazy far right agenda they've been supporting. Notably, the Mississippi Catholic Bishops: Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill. This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote on Initiative ...
Abortion, Mississippi, catholic church, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Personhood
Herman Cain posing with anti-Muslim hate monger Pamela GellerHerman Cain's advisers have him going around to all the far right Christian outlets this weekend, desperately walking back his absurd self-contradictory statements on abortion. After trying to snow the cable news networks into believing he might be sort of "pro-choice," Cain ...
Herman Cain, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Extremism, Republican Party
In Des Moines at a forum organized by the extreme right wing Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Republican candidates are enthusiastically trying to portray themselves as the most misogynistic, repressive assholes in America. Their strategy to "rebuild America" starts with controlling women's uteruses: Abortion Takes Center Stage at Iowa ...
Republican Party, Reactionary, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Abortion, Religious Right, Dark Ages, Bad Craziness
This is starting to resemble a Saturday Night Live skit that goes on way too long, as Herman Cain finds yet another way to express the cognitive dissonance of his position(s) on abortion: GOP 12: Cain: It should be illegal for rape victims to have abortion. FOX HOST MARTHA MACCALLUM: ...
Herman Cain, Abortion, Religious Right, Cognitive Dissonance, Bad Craziness, Right Wing
Herman Cain's ridiculous self-contradictory statements on abortion are beginning to piss off the religious right, who want their candidates to be as rabidly anti-abortion as possible: Herman Cain's Abortion Comments Roil Iowa Republicans. WASHINGTON -- The first signs of real damage to Herman Cain's campaign emerged Thursday as his position ...
Herman Cain, Abortion, Religious Right, Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa, Planned Parenthood
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Women's Rights, Republican Party, Misogyny, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Rachel Maddow
The Republican Party has succeeded in passing a bill in the House of Representatives that allows hospitals to let women die rather than provide abortion-related emergency services. The inhuman heartlessness of the religious right, in your face.
Women's Rights, Republican Party, Misogyny, Abortion, Bad Craziness