Abortion Doctor Wants O’Reilly Probe

Staff / Truthdig Nov 6, 2006 A Kansas abortion doctor wants a special prosecutor to probe the means by which records about his patients ended up as fodder on the Bill O'Reilly show. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Case Will Point to Revised Court’s Abortion Approach

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2006 The Supreme Court will hear arguments next week regarding the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by Congress. The case should indicate how the newly formed court will approach abortion rights without the presence of Sandra Day O'Connor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Lesser of Many Evils

Staff / Truthdig Oct 30, 2006 As part of its bid to recapture the Congress, the Democratic Party has backed a number of candidates who skew to the right on issues like abortion, gun control and gay rights. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abortion Rule for Texas Minors: Notarized Parental Consent

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2006 Yep, you read right. The Texas Medical Board now requires minors seeking abortions to provide notarized parental consent forms. (h/t Feministing) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

So a Militant Feminist and a Pro-Lifer Walk Into a Bar…

Staff / Truthdig Aug 23, 2006 Well, not a bar, actually -- a house. On this week's episode of his FX network series "Thirty Days," Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian behind "Super Size Me," is putting two women with radically different worldviews in the same house for 30 days. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fetal Horror in Punjab

Staff / Truthdig Aug 19, 2006 Authorities in the Indian state of Punjab recently made a grotesque discovery that has prompted public outrage and a government crackdown. Acting on a tip, police and health officials raided a private clinic and found a 30-foot well with over 50 female fetuses inside. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ellen Goodman: Putting a Wedge Between the Right and Loony Right

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jul 20, 2006 The columnist says Bush's veto of the stem cell bill has set him apart from his colleagues in the GOP and put him squarely in the ranks of the loony right. She also takes on a range of other "wedge issues" that have proved so divisive as to end up dividing even the staunchest conservatives. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pregnancy Centers Giving False Info on Abortion

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2006 From the Wash Po: "Federally funded 'pregnancy resource centers' are incorrectly telling women that abortion results in an increased risk of breast cancer, infertility and deep psychological trauma" Surprise, surprise. Dig deeper

Antiabortion Blogger Mistakes Onion Column for Real Deal

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2006 The proprietor of a pro-life blog railed with righteous indignation against a column from The Onion titled "I'm Totally Psyched About This Abortion!" Apparently lines from the column like "I seriously cannot wait for all the hemorrhaging and the uterine contractions" didn't tip the blogger off to the column's satirical intent--and he has since become the laughingstock of the blogosphere. (Salon article; reg. req'd) (Onion column) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Last Clinic Standing

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig Jul 14, 2006 An extremist pro-life organization that helped make doctors the targets of deadly attacks in the 1990s is now mobilizing a protest to shutter the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. With reproductive rights under assault across the country, pro-choice activist Sunsara Taylor reports on the high-stakes battle about to take place in Jackson, Miss. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

DeLay and Abramoff’s ‘Made in the USA’: Shame, Shame, Shame

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2006 Listen to an excellent NPR Weekend Edition story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a "shining light of the Republican Party" during one of many "fact-finding missions" to the region. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Plagiarism Charges Against Coulter

Staff / Truthdig Jun 15, 2006 Passages in Ann Coulter's new book appear cribbed from material distributed by an anti-abortion group (according to Raw Story) and from a press conference by Alan Keyes, then a Republican Senate candidate (according to Rude Pundit). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )