Just a few hours ago, Senate Democrats (and some Republicans) blocked an attempt to deny federal funding to Planned Parenthood, which could help avoid a government shutdown that is scheduled for October 1, al-Jazeera reports.
After weeks of GOP candidates pandering to the anti-Planned Parenthood masses, it looks like the one man who should know better re:fetal tissue donations—famed ex-neurosurgeon Ben Carson—actually does know better. Or at least, he did back in 1992 when he did his own research on 17-week fetal tissue. But, according to…
Is Donald Trump a complete moron? Most evidence suggests “yes.” On the issue of Planned Parenthood, however, Trump appears to only be semi-moronic, a fact the organization celebrated today in the saddest quasi-endorsement ever.
In today’s edition of No, I Hate Abortion More, Senator Ted Cruz attempted to one-up his GOP running mates in the form of an overwrought tirade against Planned Parenthood and—if we’re to take him at his word—the polio vaccine.
Earlier today, an eight-minute “undercover” video surfaced purporting to show Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services talking about selling the body parts of aborted human fetuses for the non-profit’s financial gain. Which would be shocking, certainly—if any of it were true.
A new Tennessee law will make the state's sex education policies even stricter: teachers are now barred from condoning any genital contact, which is considered "gateway sexual activity."
Despite the fact that Arizona has already banned public funding for abortion, Governor Jan Brewer signed an even more restrictive bill that bars funding to any organization that provides abortions — namely Planned Parenthood.
In order to make sure that the Buffett Rule, which would increase taxes on incomes over a million dollars, wouldn't pass, the GOP filibustered it. Their main reason was that $4.7B this would generate simply isn't enough to make the tax worthwhile. As Jon Stewart pointed out on tonight's Daily Show, that stance doesn't…
Well, this isn't exactly surprising. Under pressure from the religious right, Barack Obama made a concession about birth-control insurance coverage — while religious employers will not have to offer free contraceptives to workers, the insurers themselves will have to. It's a compromise he shouldn't have had to make…
Earlier today I posted about Romney's win in the Nevada caucus yesterday, with nary a mention of completely legitimate presidential candidate Rick Santorum. But Santorum, despite coming in fourth behind Romney, Gingrich, and Ron Paul, has some strong words for us: "This race is a long, long way from being over."
Last April, during the fight over the federal budget, Stephen Colbert delivered one of The Colbert Report's most legendary rants.
"You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You're Pro-Choice," proclaims National Review guy Daniel Foster. Why? Because "the Left" insists on "besmirching Komen's good name" instead of exercising its freedom of speech in Foster's preferred medium: a check.
Just days after announcing that it would pull funding from Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen Foundation's Board of Directors released a statement apologizing for the decision today.
Just in time for the rising backlash to its self-created public relations disaster, the Susan G. Komen Foundation—which announced this week that it would pull its funding from Planned Parenthood—has teamed up with Discount Gun Sales to market pink handguns.
Kansas has issued a license to Planned Parenthood to continue providing abortions in light of new, burdensome regulations that could shutter the state's two other clinics. Those clinics go to court today to fight the regs. [Image WeNews/via Flickr]
Republican Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement Friday afternoon saying he will sign legislation stripping federal funds from Planned Parenthood in Indiana, the first state to make such a move.
Sen. Jon Kyl's famous lie that was "not intended to be a factual statement"—that abortion is 90% of what Planned Parenthood does, when in reality it's 3%—has been "revised" in the Congressional Record.
When Bill Maher brought up Senator Jon Kyl's intentionally false statement about Planned Parenthood's propensity to perform abortions on last night's Real Time, panelists Ed Schultz and Michael Steele disagreed with each other about the egregiousness of Kyl's fib. It was contentious, yes, but boy oh boy was that…
On yesterday's Report, Stephen Colbert called out Arizona Senator Jon Kyl for his lie about Planned Parenthood, which Kyl explained away by claiming that it was "not intended to be a factual statement." On tonight's show, Colbert took it a step further by giving Kyl several tastes of his own medicine.
