A number of indigenous leaders across the Pacific have signed a treaty granting all whales legal personhood in an effort to protect whale populations from the effects of climate change, NPR reported Wednesday.
Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama’s new law that bans most abortions in the state, save those to prevent a serious health risk to the mother.
Alabama state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat, said, while debating a bill that would ban most abortions in the state, “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later.”
The Iowa Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would allow a life sentence for someone who causes the death of an unborn baby without the consent of the mother.
New York Right to Life warns the Reproductive Health Act signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would remove criminal penalties for “acts of violence against a pregnant mother and her child.”
Actor and producer Nick Loeb has filed a lawsuit against his ex-fiancée, actress Sofia Vergara, for full and sole custody of the former couple’s embryos, which reside in a state of cryopreservation in California.
Abortion advocacy groups say the GOP tax plan’s recognition of an “unborn child … at any stage of development who is carried in the womb” is “absurd” and another ploy to block access to abortion on demand.
GOP 2016 contender Ted Cruz turned the tables on a question about abortion, observing that the Democrats know abortion is highly controversial, so much so that in 2012 they plotted to fabricate the narrative that Republicans wanted to ban contraceptives rather than broadcast their own support of abortion-on-demand.
It’s a fact of life that pro-lifers are forced to answer all sorts of media “gotcha” questions about slippery-slope abortion hypotheticals, while pro-choicers don’t face even mildly difficult questions about the actual facts of abortion.
A Planned Parenthood political advocacy executive changed her identification on Twitter after she slammed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for referring to a “fetus” as an “unborn child” and saying she is open to restrictions on abortion later in pregnancy.
Salon has brilliantly presented the argument that animals should be considered people, positing that the antiquated notion of a line of demarcation between humans and animals should be discarded.
Salon Magazine, a bastion of political correctness, has now come down on the side of the orca. The more we learn about killer whales, a recent article states, “the more that our assumption of innate superiority looks like a presumption.” Whether this brave new world will be friendlier to human beings is doubtful indeed. But at least the orca will be protected.
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.
