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
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
In the latest Republican Party move to strip away women's rights, the New Hampshire GOP has rejected a contract with Planned Parenthood that would allow them to continue dispensing contraceptives: Centers stop dispensing birth control. The six Planned Parenthood centers in New Hampshire stopped dispensing contraception last week after the ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Extremism, Republican Party, New Hampshire, Contraceptives
In Indiana, one of the nation's most restrictive and backward anti-abortion laws has just been signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels, and a provision of the law that took effect this week also blocks Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. Note that Planned Parenthood is already prohibited from using federal funds for ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, Indiana, Planned Parenthood
You almost have to feel a little bit sorry for Mitt Romney. In the past, he would have been a shoe-in for the Republican presidential nomination; he's from old money, has a pretty solid record of mainstream conservative positions, and was next in line after John McCain. In the natural ...
Mitt Romney, Election 2012, Right Wing, Abortion, Extremism, Planned Parenthood, Misogyny, Religious Right
William Jacobson, one of the first wingnut bloggers to spread the ridiculous talking point that Sarah Palin got it exactly right with her absurd distortion of Paul Revere's ride, is now outraged -- outraged, I say! -- that I'm not going to apologize to Andrew Breitbart: Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Charles Johnson: ...
Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Press Conference, Fraud, Shirley Sherrod, Acorn, Planned Parenthood
Indiana's GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels tried to pull a fast one and ban the use of Medicaid funds at Planned Parenthood clinics, because as we all know, the best way to help the economy and create jobs is to take away women's reproductive rights and destroy Planned Parenthood. Ahem. Today the Obama ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Extremism, Republican Party, Indiana
The Republican Party clearly has a national agenda to wage total war against Planned Parenthood. In Texas today, a Senate subcommittee voted to ban Planned Parenthood from being part of a program that provides health screening for low income women. That's not all. The bill also includes a "poison pill" provision that ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Contraceptives, Extremism, Republican Party, Texas
A new front has opened up in the right wing's deranged vendetta against Planned Parenthood. Republicans in Oklahoma are now taking food out of the mouths of babies. Unbelievably, something like that occurred last week in the Oklahoma House. Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, moved to amend a senior nutrition bill so ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Atavism, War on Women, Planned Parenthood, Bad Craziness
They failed to get their agenda through Congress, so the atavist religious right is now refocusing their efforts on local politics. And Kansas is ground zero for the state-level effort to destroy Planned Parenthood. Budgets winding their way through the Legislature would redirect about $300,000 in federal family planning funds ...
Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Contraceptives, Extremism, Republican Party, Kansas
Remember Jon Kyl's ridiculous lie, stated on the floor of the US Senate during the Republican push to destroy Planned Parenthood, that abortions are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does?" (The real number is three percent.) And when it was pointed out that Kyl simply lied, remember ...
Republican Party, GOP, Jon Kyl, Planned Parenthood, Abortion
Gail Collins makes an important point about the right wing vendetta against Planned Parenthood, in her New York Times op-ed column: The War Behind the Abortion War. For eons now, people have been wondering why the two sides can’t just join hands and agree to work together to reduce the ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Atavism, War on Women, Planned Parenthood, Contraceptives
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is now admitting he "misspoke" when he said 90% of Planned Parenthood's services were abortion-related. And his hilarious "not intended to be factual" excuse is being blamed on an unnamed "press person." Asked if he regretted the flap, Kyl said Thursday: "I misspoke when I ...
Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Republican Party, Planned Parenthood, Fake But Accurate, Jon Kyl
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Only someone with a profoundly warped view of women could possibly make the statement Glenn Beck made this morning on his radio show. In a sickening rant, Beck actually mocked women who depend on Planned Parenthood for health services -- and said they must be prostitutes. Video
Glenn Beck, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, End Times, Religious Right, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Misogyny