The Republican-dominated Senate has allowed Loretta Lynch to be confirmed as the next U.S. Attorney General, 56-43. Roll Call now says the GOP will suffer with “scars from the long, tortured confirmation process of the first African-American woman nominated to fill the post.”
Senate Democrats finally caved and ended their filibuster of an anti-human trafficking bill, something they had been blocking for weeks because of a provision banning any of the money from going to abortions.
A group of national pro-life leaders is calling on House leadership to vote for a bill that would ban abortions past the fifth month of pregnancy in the United States. After a three-month delay since the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was pulled from the House floor, leaders say it is time to vote on it.
In 2006, attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch joined other former U.S. attorneys in an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court that maintained the federal law against partial-birth abortion was unconstitutional because the term “living fetus” was too vague for those whose job it was to obey and enforce the ban.
Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) encouraged “the Democrat side” to “move forward,” and stop holding up a sex trafficking bill because of the Hyde amendment which is a “rider” that has been attached to various
In a press release last week, the American College of Pediatricians urged health care providers to educate young women about the strong link between abortion and breast cancer.
The leader of Spain’s Socialist Party has been compared to Homer Simpson after accidentally voting in favour of an anti-abortion law he had strongly opposed. Pedro Sánchez voted for the law, which requires girls under the age of 18 to
Nearly three months after caving to a group of Republicans led by Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, the House GOP is trying to resurrect the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, though Ellmers has demanded another language change in the bill
If you haven’t heard of the term “dismemberment abortion,” you will soon. After all, how do you defend literally ripping a baby apart, limb by limb, body part by body part?
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh praised Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-KY) for his handling of questions on abortion on Wednesday. After playing a clip of Representative and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) interview with Megyn Kelly on
In a report on a proposed law which would make it possible for the state of Colorado to bring murder charges after the death of an unborn baby, Think Progress’s Health Editor manages to misstate the facts of the crime which prompted the bill in the first place.
The professional left is planning a tag-team hunger strike to agitate for a confirmation vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination for U.S. Attorney General. The Senate is currently considering legislation to further crack down on human sex trafficking. Senate Democrats, unbelievably, have blocked action on the bill because it prohibits federal money from paying for abortion.
Girls actress Jemima Kirke is lending her voice to the Center for Reproductive Rights in a new PSA.
Actress Jemima Kirke opens about about her 2007 abortion as part of a new video campaign for the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Representative and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) ducked a question on when she believes life begins on Tuesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. When asked when she believes life begins, she first criticized Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is being run by “secular extremists” who do not share the vales of the general public, UKIP’s Douglas Carswell has said. Speaking after the CPS decided to block an attempt to prosecute two doctors for
Religious groups such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are the target of an imminent ACLU lawsuit that hopes to order the federal government to release information about how the groups are awarded government funding contracts to assist illegal unaccompanied minors, yet refuse to allow the minors access to contraception and abortion.
EMILY’s List Communications Director Jess McIntosh complained that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was trying to shut down discussion on abortion by asking whether ” killing a 7-pound baby that’s just not born yet” should be legal on Thursday’s “NOW with
Newly announced presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and potential Republican candidate Carly Fiorina will headline the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for Life Gala and Summit on April 16, 2015 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
MILFORD, New Hampshire — Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) isn’t answering basic questions about her stance on abortion after a bout with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as the Kentuckian launched his bid for president of the
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Hannity show on Tuesday evening, in a special interview filmed in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had announced he was running for president earlier in the day. During the interview, Paul reaffirmed his strong pro-life position.
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider and consistent endorser of Democrats, attacked Rand Paul with several tweets that women would not be supporting him.
The Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children at the University of Hawaii is currently recruiting pregnant girls and women to participate in second-trimester abortions to measure their bleeding during the operation, with and without antihemorrhagic drugs.
The 1998 number-one hit song “Closing Time” by the alternative rock band Semisonic seemed like just another feel-good, 1990s-style ballad about closing down a bar and looking for someone to go home with. It turns out it was writer Dan Wilson’s cryptic love song to his unborn daughter Coco.
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) apologized to fourth grade students at the Lincoln Akerman School Tuesday for the rude behavior shown to them by some of the state’s lawmakers earlier in the month.
