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trueCristina Page2006-11-06T11:20:00-05:002006-11-06T19:42:14Z2006-11-06T16:23:06Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-116283018678935508The Right to Lie Movement: Obstruction of Truth and the South Dakota BanTomorrow, the voters of South Dakota will consider, by referendum, the law passed by their legislature, and signed by their Governor, that bans abortion in their state. If South Dakotans support the law, it will create a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade decision and send it on a course to the Supreme Court where the balance in favor of Roe now teeters by one pro-choice vote. If the South DakotafalseCristina Page2006-08-01T10:53:00-04:002006-11-03T18:32:57Z2006-08-01T15:32:07Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-115444632779508487Tony Per<em>v</em>kinsYou can always rely on the Family Research Council to come up with the most outlandish and brutal sexual fantasy when any common sense solution is offered for our country's high rate of unintended pregnancy. It's most recent has been inspired by the FDA's apparent willingness to re-reconsider the emergency contraception over-the-counter (OTC) application, this time only for women 18 and older. ThefalseCristina Page2006-07-27T22:41:00-04:002006-07-28T02:50:57Z2006-07-28T02:44:20Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-115405466058645854How is Locking Up Grandma Pro-Family?Senator Clinton, arguing against the "Child Custody Protection Act" (or The Teen Endangerment Act), yesterday offered a brief break from all the "pro-life" distortions with an eloquent reality-based speech from the Senate floor. Here are her comments unedited:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the floor of the U.S. Senate
July 25, 2006:
I met the 14-year-old who already had a baby, and I met thefalseCristina Page2006-04-25T13:54:00-04:002006-06-08T05:02:00Z2006-04-25T17:57:53Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-114598787335104350blog flogPlease check out my debate with rabidly (though typical for a professional pro-lifer) anti-contraception, anti-child-care, anti-working mother, pro-life activist Jennifer Roback Morse. In her review of my book she challenged me to a debate. I happily took her up on the offer. (For transcript of the debate, go to the April 23 archive)falseCristina Page2006-04-19T23:40:00-04:002006-04-26T03:21:04Z2006-04-20T04:23:35Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-114550701514439643Another sensible common ground plea gets ignored by pro-life groupsPro-Choice Senator Hillary Clinton and Pro-Life Senator Harry Reid have written a simple "common ground" prescription for those hoping for real solutions to our nation's high abortion rate. Most interesting in their call to action is that they place blame for the high rates of abortion squarely at the feet of our nation's pro-life groups and their campaigns against the proven abortion reductionfalseCristina Page2006-03-18T00:58:00-05:002006-07-20T19:34:41Z2006-03-18T06:15:28Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-114266252848794288Show Me State Shows Pro-lifers' True AgendaMissouri Right to Life suceeded today at eliminating access to birth control for the state's poorest residents. The Associated Press reports that the Missouri state legislature "voted 96-59 to delete the funding for contraception" at local health clinics "after Rep. Susan Phillips told lawmakers that anti-abortion groups such as Missouri Right to Life were opposed to the spending."falseCristina Page2006-03-16T09:20:00-05:002006-03-18T06:24:41Z2006-03-16T14:39:53Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582956.post-114251999332085886Wisconsin sues FDA for role in causing unintended pregnancies --leading to high costs for the stateWisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager joined the lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against the FDA. Lautenschlager charges that the FDA's ideologically-based decision to keep emergency contraception from becoming available over the counter has resulted in many otherwise preventable unintended pregnancies and has driven up costs to the state to care for births to teenfalse