Tag: Abortion rights
Abortion rights are on the line at the Supreme Court. What...
Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who at age 27 successfully argued Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court, figured the landmark ruling that legalized...
Wiretap: The big Supreme Court win for abortion rights defenders
Abortion rights
The Supreme Court rolls back the Texas law for unconstitutionally restricting abortions, but that's just the beginning. Republican-led state legislatures have loaded up...
Priests for Life announces new attack on abortion rights
Priests for Life, the anti-abortion group led by Father Frank Pavone, announced Tuesday that it will be launching a plan “to target the abortion industry in 2012.”
Defunding abortion may have wide repercussions
The U.S. House of Representative's move to strip federal funding from any program related in any way to abortion could have wide-reaching consequences.
The hard bargains and steep costs of passing health reform
Unveiling a modified health reform bill on Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders appear to have cobbled together the 60 votes they’ll need to pass the most expansive overhaul to the nation’s health care system in generations. But winning that support comes at a steep cost.
Abortion clinic violence prosecution cratered under Bush Administration
Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old accused of murdering abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in his Wichita, Kans. church, had a long history of ties to a violent right-wing extremist group, had previously threatened another abortion provider, and had just that week vandalized Tiller’s clinic.
Just as federal law specifically penalizes hate crimes, the law also makes it a federal crime to threaten or commit violence against abortion providers, or to vandalize their clinics. Yet as The Washington Independent revealed last week, the criminal law was not being enforced.
Just as federal law specifically penalizes hate crimes, the law also makes it a federal crime to threaten or commit violence against abortion providers, or to vandalize their clinics. Yet as The Washington Independent revealed last week, the criminal law was not being enforced.
Boulder abortion provider deplores decision to close Tiller’s Kansas clinic
One of the last remaining providers of very late abortions in the country said it was an "outrage" the murder of Dr. George Tiller last week has led to his family's decision to close the clinic he ran in Wichita, Kan.
U.S. Marshals step up security for Boulder late-term abortion doctor
Federal marshals are protecting a Boulder abortion clinic and the doctor who runs it, a Boulder police spokeswoman said Monday afternoon. The increased security was in place a day after Dr. George Tiller, who ran a similar clinic providing late-term abortions, was gunned down at a church Sunday morning in Wichita, Kan.
Boulder physician Warren Hern, among a handful of doctor in the country to provide very late-term abortions, said Sunday he has been targeted by the anti-abortion movement for years. His Boulder Abortion Clinic has specialized in late-term abortions since its founding in 1975.
"I'm next on the list," Hern said.