Todd Akin, Darling of the Religious Right, Wins Senate Primary
Missouri congressman Todd Akin eked out a win last night over two rivals in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, adding to a list of Religious Right backed candidates winning competitive primaries,...
View ArticleAUL Report Highlights Rift in Anti-Choice Movement
The anti-choice movement has for several years been experiencinga quietrift over extreme state-level measures would ban all abortions – and in some cases, in vitro fertilization and some forms of birth...
View ArticleNRLC Punishes Chapter Over Gay Marriage Stance
The National Right to Life Committee has cut ties with its Cleveland chapter after the local group announced that it would oppose Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s re-election because of his support for marriage...
View ArticleDumped By National Anti-Choice Group Over Marriage Stand, Cleveland Right to...
On Monday, Brian wrote about an interesting schism emerging within one of the nation’s largest anti-choice groups, National Right to Life. When Ohio Sen. Rob Portman announced earlier this year that,...
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Anti-Choice Infighting Disrupts Georgia, Colorado Senate Races
In an echo of the electoral battle between Tea Party groups and the establishment GOP, Senate candidates in Colorado and Georgia are being caught up in a long-simmering conflict between purists and...
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New Erick Erickson-Backed Group Ousts Hardline Anti-Choice Org In Georgia
Last week, we wrote about the infighting among anti-choice groups – between those that will settle for nothing short of banning abortion with no exceptions and those that are willing to take a more...
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Personhood USA Joins Battle Over Anti-Choice Leadership In Georgia
The radical anti-choice group Personhood USA has waded into the very public battle over the anti-choice movement’s strategy that is playing out in Georgia.Over the weekend, a long-running feud among...
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Anti-Choice Infighting Escalates In Kentucky Senate Race
Last month, we reported that the infighting in the anti-choice movement has gone public in Kentucky, where the National Right to Life Committee and its Kentucky affiliate are endorsing incumbent Mitch...
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Spurned Georgia Group Launching Even More Extreme Rival To National Right To...
A no-compromise anti-choice group that was recently ousted as National Right to Life Committee’s Georgia affiliate is launching a new, even more extreme national group to compete with NRLC.In April, we...
View ArticleNational Right To Life Speaker: Contraception And Abortion Are The Real War...
The National Right To Life Convention kicked off this morning with a panel discussion featuring National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez, anti-choice activist Dr. Jean Garton, and radio host...
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Anti-Choice Activist Who Clashed With National Right To Life Over Gay Rights...
A new anti-choice organization meant to be an even more extreme version of the National Right to Life Committee has picked its first president — and they chose someone who embodies the growing schism...
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Linda Harvey And Molly Smith: Anti-Choicers Must Oppose Gay Rights Because...
Molly Smith, the director of Cleveland Right to Life, lost her group’s affiliation with National Right to Life Committee last year when she criticized Sen. Rob Portman for announcing his support for...
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Why Tennessee's Anti-Choice Measure Won, While Colorado's And North Dakota's...
Yesterday, voters in Tennessee approved a ballot measure amending the state constitution to remove all legal protections for abortion rights, paving the way for state lawmakers to pass broad abortion...
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Personhood Advocates Come Out Against 20-Week Abortion Ban Because It...
Next week’s scheduled House vote on a national 20-week abortion ban, to be held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, is reviving a bitter public debate within the anti-choice movement about whether to...
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The Personhood Movement: Where It Comes From And What It Means For The Future...
This is the first post in a RWW series on the reemergence of the anti-choice “personhood” movement and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.Part 2: The Personhood Movement:...
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The Personhood Movement: Internal Battles Go Public: Part 2
This is the second post in a RWW series on the reemergence of the fetal personhood movement and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.Part 1: The Personhood Movement: Where It...
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The Personhood Movement: Undermining Roe In The Courts: Part 3
This is the third post in a RWW series on the reemergence of the fetal personhood movement and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.Part 1: The Personhood Movement: Where It Comes...
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The Personhood Movement: Regrouping After Defeat: Part 4
This is the fourth post in a RWW series on the reemergence of the fetal personhood movement and what it means for the future of abortion rights in the U.S.Part 1: The Personhood Movement: Where It...
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National Right To Life Targeting GOP Congresswomen Who Objected To Abortion...
The National Right to Life Committee is indicating that it will work to unseat the anti-choice Republican House members who sidetracked a 20-week abortion ban last week because of a dispute over the...
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At CPAC, Anti-Choice Groups Declare 'Abortion-Centered Feminism Is Dead'
An anti-abortion panel at CPAC this afternoon was clearly gunning for a spot on the main stage next year. Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest, Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie...
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