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Even though Planned Parenthood has been long banned from using any of its federal money for abortions, today the GOP led a lopsided vote to completely defund the agency. The vote was 240-185 with ten Democrats siding with the GOP. The measure would eliminate about $330 million through the end of September for preventative-health services, including federal funding for contraception …

Not too surprising that an organization comprised virtually entirely of wealthy white men would be anti-woman. Then there’s this Chris Barron quote from August 4th: “We are a gay organization, we only work on gay issues, we have never claimed otherwise. My God people.” By “gay issues” he must mean controlling the reproductive choices of heterosexual women. UPDATE: The organizer …

From the Democratic women’s group, Emily’s List.

A GOP member of the U.S. House apparently called Democratic abortion opponent Rep. Bart Stupak a “baby killer” just as he began to speak in opposition to an amendment that would have killed the bill.

“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.” …

Is there anything funnier than a potty-mouthed old lady? (Tipped by JMG reader Danielle)

CBS has sold a second anti-abortion ad to Focus On The Family. This one, also featuring the Tebows, will be aired during the pre-game show. News of the second ad comes just days after, anticipating the Tebow ad, Planned Parenthood posted an online ad featuring Olympian Al Joyner and former NFL player Sean James defending abortion rights. Interest groups including …

Senator-elect Scott Brown told Barbara Walters that states should decide on same-sex marriage for themselves and that he’ll support whatever the military decides about DADT. He also confirms that he’s pro-choice, which should really piss off all those teabaggers that raised campaign funds for him.

For weeks now, we’ve been inundated with Christianist propaganda about how Tim Tebow’s mother made the Godly moral choice not to abort her son. Only now it turns out that the Tebows were living in the Philippines during her pregnancy. The Philippines, where abortion was and is illegal. Gloria Allred is on the case. In her exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com …

I totally had to steal the above headline from TMZ. The actual story here is that women’s rights groups have joined the call for CBS to cancel the planned Super Bowl anti-abortion ad from Tebow and Focus On The Family. A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during …

Led by Cardinal Antonio Rouco, tens of thousands of Spaniards attended an open air Mass and rally in Madrid against same-sex marriage and abortion rights yesterday. According to Rouco, Europe is “doomed” to experience a declining population unless Catholic values are maintained. According to a just-published survey, only about 25% of Spaniards now describe themselves as Catholic. Spain legalized same-sex …

Via Think Progress: This week, radical anti-choice activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry launched a contest encouraging people to make videos burning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in effigy. Today, he and his followers are on Capitol Hill “with signs and costumes, talking to House Staffers as they enter work,” and they …

Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) wonders if President Obama’s mother would have had an abortion if there had been federal funding to pay for it.

The wingnuts are gonna go ballistic. Wheee!! UPDATE: “Jane Roe” herself was arrested at yesterday’s hearing. Norma McCorvey, 61, of Texas, better known as “Jane Roe,” began screaming that Sotomayor was “wrong” about abortion during the opening statement of the newest member of the Senate, Al Franken, D-Minn. McCorvey’s suit led to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. …

With Elizabeth Hasselbeck coming in a close second.

Dr. George Tiller, the nation’s most famous abortionist and the subject of decades of protests and lawsuits, was shot to death today at his Wichita, Kansas church. Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses and a police source confirmed Tiller was the …

Barack Obama’s latest statement on abortion has both sides angered, with right-wing Christians labeling him the “abortion President” and progressives screaming that he is planning to erode current abortion rights. From the Christian Broadcast Network: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, says Obama would have “the most extremist policies on abortion of any President in history. …

Over the last year, I’ve written a couple of times about Manhattan Mini-Storage’s billboard campaigns, which comment amusingly on a broad range of social and pop culture issues, ranging from the government’s wiretapping to Paris Hilton and the Queer Eye guys. Their latest series, which started a few months ago, is beginning to cause a lot of upset among pro-lifers, …

By a 5-4 vote, today the Supreme Court gave the anti-abortion movement its hugest victory in many years, upholding the federal ban on “partial-birth” or late-term abortions. Predictably, dissenting justices were Ginsberg, Souter, Stevens, and Breyer. Justice Ginsberg objected so strenuously, she took the unusual step of reading her dissent from the bench, noting that this ruling will disadvantage adolescents …