Brad Trost Launchs Petition Against Planned Parenthood

Brad Trost has launched a petition to defund the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
From the IPPF website;
What we believe
We believe that sexual and reproductive rights should be internationally recognized as human rights and therefore guaranteed for everyone.
We encourage individuals, women in particular, to take control of their reproductive lives.
We promote equality between men and [...]

The Ultimate War on Christmas

Planned Parenthood is offering gift certificates this Christmas season. The intent is that they be used for health care services such as breast exams or pap tests or for contraceptives.
Of course never ones to spurn a good excuse to clutch their pearls, shriek and faint ever so dramatically, the anti choicers have spun this as [...]

Teen pregnancy: no longer shameful, still a concern.

It may be that the intense media visibility awarded to Bristol Palin’s unintended pregnancy will bring about a shift in public attitudes towards teen’s sex education.
Sarah Palin’s extreme and fundamentalist views on sex education, rape, and recently, on bombing abortion clinics have given these issues prominence in the US presidential election campaign. A successful [...]

Shhh . . . Fetus Fetishists Celebrate MASSIVE Victory!

Back in May, we reported that the lying whiners poor little charity, First Place Pregnancy Centre, was suing Planned Parenthood over its role in helping Ottawa Senators fans find out where their donations were being directed by the Senators’ wives and girlfriends.
Well, it appears that the matter was quietly settled on September 16.
The two [...]

More about religious fundamentalist bullying

There are moments when the most eloquent blogpost possible, on a particular issue, is to simply provide a link to someone else’s piece.
Last month, Birth Pangs wrote, in Moving the goal-posts on contraception and The Haters’ Agenda Part II, about the Bush administration’s meddling in the parameters of federally-funded health programs.
Read Proposed HHS Regulation Pits [...]