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Dear Mayor Franks, Can You Get On This Cockroach Issue?
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks has decided that its time to put Congress to work ruling over the citizens of Washington, D.C. — at least when it comes to issues of reproductive rights. So activists...
View ArticleLila Rose and Live Action Decline to Respond to Questions About “Gotcha”...
While researching PRENDA, RH Reality Check reached out to Lila Rose’s PR representative with some questions about her video and the pending legislation. Jameson Cunningham of the conservative Shirley...
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House Judiciary Committee Passes D.C. Abortion Ban With No Exceptions for...
H.R. 3803, a bill to ban abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks gestation, is heading to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after members of the GOP-dominated House Judiciary...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Representative Trent Franks: What Caring About Women and...
Due to an editorial error, dates reported in this article earlier were incorrect. The current version includes all correct dates. We regret the error. Dear Representative Trent Franks, Today, I...
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What Do Responses to a DC 20-Week Abortion Ban Tell Us About the Habits of...
Cross-posted with permission ANSIRH. Last week the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation for women in Washington, DC....
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What Akin’s Supporters Are Saying (and He Has Many)
The Republican establishment swore they would cut off the funding for Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s senate run to encourage him to drop out of the race against Sen. Claire McCaskill. Not only has Akin...
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Another Fight Looms on a 20-Week Abortion Ban for D.C.
In the wake of the media frenzy over the trial of Kermit Gosnell, anti-choice activists in every state are doing what they can to manipulate the coverage to press for restrictions that can be used to...
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Trent Franks, GOP Revive War on Women at House Hearing on 20-Week Abortion Ban
See all our coverage of HR 1797 here. If Republicans had hopes of shoring up their credibility with women voters ahead of the midterm congressional elections, today’s hearing in the House Judiciary...
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Trent Franks, Abortion Bans, and the Fetal Pain Lie
See all our coverage of HR 1797 here. Wednesday, an all-male panel of House Judiciary Committee members, led by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), passed a 20-week abortion ban. The bill, HR 1797, passed out of...
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Vitter Seeks to Insert Anti-Choice Amendment Into Employment...
It may rhyme with ENDA, but PRENDA is a whole different animal; it’s an anti-choice measure that, according to the Atlantic Wire, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) hopes to attach to the Employment...
View ArticleLawmakers Ask Attorney General to Investigate Sham Group Attacking Planned...
See more of our coverage on the misleading Center for Medical Progress videos here. Four House Democrats are calling for an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) as the group’s...
View ArticleGOP Bills Seem to Confuse Planned Parenthood With Kermit Gosnell
See more of our coverage on recent attacks against Planned Parenthood here. The U.S. House is expected to vote Friday, following a Thursday debate, on two anti-choice bills that are inspired by the...
View ArticleCongressional Republicans Want to Ban Common Second-Trimester Abortion Procedure
Congressional Republicans introduced a bill Wednesday that would criminalize a common medical procedure used after miscarriages and during second-trimester abortions. Similar legislation has been...
View ArticleHouse Passes Bills to Defund Planned Parenthood, Add Criminal Penalties for...
See more of our coverage on recent attacks against Planned Parenthood here. The U.S. House passed two anti-choice bills on Friday—one that would strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood for one...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Smear Videos Leaked on Anti-Choice Website
Surreptitiously recorded video footage produced by an anti-choice front group was leaked to and published by a right-wing website Thursday, defying a restraining order issued by a judge. The videos...
View ArticleFor Its Orchestrators, Campaign to Attack Planned Parenthood More Legal...
Read more of our articles on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting here. After 30 months of effort, anti-choice activist David Daleiden claimed to have definitive proof that Planned...
View ArticleHouse Hearing Becomes Forum for Anti-Choice Misinformation Campaign
A U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing on legislation that seeks to ban sex- and race-selective abortion care devolved into disorder Thursday as the Republican chairman spoke over the...
View ArticleCongressional Testimony: Anti-Choice Measure Would Turn People of Color Into...
Dozens of people of color sent a letter to Congress Thursday expressing outrage over the introduction of the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2016 (HR 4924), which they say threatens the...
View ArticleHouse GOP Blocks Troops’ Abortion Care Access
An effort to lift the ban prohibiting military facilities from providing on-site abortion care failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reps. Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Marc Veasey (D-TX)...
View ArticleThe Forgotten History of Republicans’ (Failed) Attacks on Fetal Tissue Research
Republicans in Congress sixteen years ago were more vested in supporting life-saving fetal tissue research than they were in mischaracterizing such research to score political points. The times, and...
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