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The above Huffington Post headline and image has wingnut heads exploding all over Twitter.

A federal appeals court has agreed to re-hear a challenge on whether Baltimore can force fake “pregnancy crisis centers” to post signs admitting that they do not perform abortions. Such sham clinics lure in desperate young women all over the country. Once inside “faith counselors” then try to talk women out of having abortions or using birth control. A lower …

Talking Points Memo has the quote: “As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin’s statement was so far out of bounds that …

The blogosphere imploded today when Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) appeared on a talk show to declare that women who are “legitimately raped” do not get pregnant. And therefore abortion should be illegal in all cases. Akin’s name and “legitimate rape” are now top trending topics on Twitter. Even the vicious teabaggers at Twitchy are appalled. Akin is running to unseat …

“The majority of abortions are committed on women in relationships outside of the context of marriage. These women who become pregnant and then abort are typically over-sexualized by a variety of things, whether it’s through messages in movies, television, or the culture of porn that surrounds them. With the dawn of the acceptance of Margaret Sanger’s contraceptive pill (1960s), followed …

“I’m as black as Obama, and I’m tired of any legitimate criticism of the President’s policies reduced to lazy and ludicrous charges of racism. Obama and the Democrats have been promising a whole lot of hope and change but, instead, have delivered higher unemployment, higher poverty rates and millions more welfare enrollees while aggressively promoting abortion in the black community.” …

Seattle’s Slog reports that last month a local theater employee gave away a key plot point in Prometheus as patrons presented their tickets. A man named Jorge who attended a recent showing of Prometheus got a politically charged spoiler alert from the employee who was tearing his tickets. “I have to warn you,” Jorge recalls the employee telling him and …

This will play out rather interestingly, I expect. Details.

Michigan GOP leaders banned Rep. Lisa Brown from speaking on state House floor after she used the word “vagina” during a response to a pending bill to restrict abortions. “What she said was offensive,” state Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville, told The Detroit News. “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would …

“I’m going to discuss the issue of the abortion clinic doctors being shot in my speech. The current score is, what, about fifty million to seven in terms of the number of people their side has killed and the number of people our side has killed. But I’ll give you a brief preview, which is when you take democracy away …