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Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Birth Control
The far right religious fanatics of "Live Action" are pushing yet another "hidden camera" hit job on Planned Parenthood today, a hit job so obvious and inept that Planned Parenthood caught on to Live Action's sneaky activities more than a month ago. This time, the heavily edited video is supposed to ...
Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Live Action, Lila Rose, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Anti-Choice, Abortion, Dishonesty
YouTube Video Lila Rose is a soldier in the religious right's war to drag women back to the Dark Ages, and in this clip from Right Wing Watch she makes it clear that she believes she's in a battle with Satan himself. His Nibs. Working through Planned Parenthood. We’re facing many challenges, ...
Planned Parenthood, Lila Rose, Anti-Choice, Women's Rights, Religious Right, War on Women, Satan, His Nibs, The Horned One
There's been a string of suspicious incidents at Planned Parenthood clinics recently, and officials believe there's another right wing "sting" video in the works. According to Planned Parenthood spokesperson Chloe Cooney, clinics in at least 11 states have reported two dozen or more "hoax visits" over the past several weeks, ...
Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Religious Right, Abortion, Anti-Choice, Live Action
Video Francis Grady, who's accused of firebombing a Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinic on Sunday night, appeared in court today and settled the question of whether or not he's an anti-choice fanatic: he is. A Grand Chute man accused of setting a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic made his first appearance ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Wisconsin, Robert Stacy McCain, Anti-Choice
TPM has learned that police are investigating reports that the suspect in the Wisconsin Planned Parenthood firebombing may have attended anti-abortion protests at the clinic. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the man accused in the weekend bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin may have been involved ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Wisconsin, Anti-Choice
Update on yesterday's post about the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin: police say they've arrested a male suspect. GRAND CHUTE — Police say they have arrested the person they think placed a homemade explosive device that went off Sunday and damaged Planned Parenthood’s Gillett Street ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Wisconsin
Today Rick Santorum issued the following pro forma statement denouncing last night's Planned Parenthood clinic bombing. "Violence is never the answer, and I will always condemn any and all violent attacks against our fellow Americans. In this country, we resolve our differences through political discussion and free and fair elections – never ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, Rick Santorum
I'll come right out and say it. I believe that the religious right and the Republican Party's irresponsible, dishonest rhetorical attacks on Planned Parenthood -- including Mitt Romney's statement that he'd "end Planned Parenthood" -- are responsible for real-world violent attacks like this. The entire GOP is now united ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party
Speaking today in Kirkwood, Missouri, Mitt Romney clearly announced his intention to destroy Planned Parenthood. Also on Romney's hit list: two other social conservative targets, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. And his plan to lower gas prices: drill the living hell out of the ...
Mitt Romney, Social Conservatives, Planned Parenthood, War on Women, Women's Rights, Energy, Drill, Phallic Imagery, Misogyny, Republican Party
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's administration continues their all-out war against women's rights, by signing into law a bill that bans Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from participating in the Texas' Women's Health Program -- effectively killing the program altogether. If there was any hope that the state was seeking ...
Texas, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, Planned Parenthood, Abortion
One thing the right is amazingly good at: circling their wagons around an issue and parroting talking points in absolute lockstep. Whenever a controversial issue pops up, the right wing blogs and media can be counted on to almost immediately start building their wall of noise. Today, they're all in unison ...
Virginia, Planned Parenthood, Ultrasound, Women's Rights, State Rape, Misogyny, Abortion, Religious Right
The Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood? You could have fooled me -- and millions of other families who have had their kids go through the Girl Scout programs over the decades since it was founded. Yet, Indiana Republican, Rep. Bob Morris of Fort Wayne, claims to have ...
GOP, Planned Parenthood, Girl Scouts, Conspiracies, Reproductive Rights, Misogyny
Republican 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
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
A terrible precedent: apparently caving in to the right wing crusade against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention. It's a concrete example of how the religious right's reactionary anti-choice agenda is hurting women ...
Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Right Wing, Health Care
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
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
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
NPR's Morning Edition has a report today on the Justice Department's increased willingness to pursue lawsuits against the religious psychos who harass and menace women at abortion clinics. [Audio] The Obama Justice Department has been taking a more aggressive approach against people who block access to abortion clinics, using a 1994 ...
Abortion, Justice Department, President Obama, Planned Parenthood, Religious Right, Operation Rescue, Women's Rights