McCain’s Scare Quotes

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2008 The term "health of the mother" is a coded term used by extreme pro-abortionists to mislead the public about their nefarious intentions, as John McCain suggested during Wednesday's presidential debate. Or it could just mean "health of the mother." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Schlafly, Ingraham Team Up for Palin at RNC

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 It was a lineup designed to bring women at the Republican National Convention ever forward and onward into the year 1800, but alas, Sarah Palin couldn't make it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush’s ‘Stem Cell Victory’

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Nov 29, 2007 Scientists may have found a way to grow stem cells without using embryos. The president's people are claiming this as a White House victory, causing a flood of gall on Pennsylvania Avenue. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cartoon Fetus Speaks in ‘Womb With a View’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2007 Picking up on the pro-life theme of "giving a voice to the unborn," cartoonist Gary Cangemi made a lil' creation of his own, "Umbert the Unborn," otherwise known as "the world's most loveable unborn baby (next to yours) ," according to his Web site . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Giuliani Forces GOP to Make a Choice

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 15, 2007 After trying to have it all ways and looking silly in the process, Rudy Giuliani finally came out and restated his support for a woman's right to choose. If he sticks with his decision, Giuliani will end the free ride his party has enjoyed on an issue that's supposed to be about morality, but has more often been used cynically to harvest votes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Top Court’s Choice Not Pro-Choice

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2007 In a ruling that supports President Bush's abortion politics, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in favor of the ban on partial-birth abortions that Bush pushed and Congress approved in 2003. The Court's move struck some pro-choice proponents as the (further) politicization of a woman's personal, and medical, decision. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Fish: Sanctity of Life

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Ellen Goodman: Fox in the Henhouse

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jan 18, 2007 President Bush has done it again, appointing a doctor who opposes family planning to run the nation's family planning program. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )

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 )