anti-choice activists

The Mask of Concern Slips from the Anti-Choicers Face

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

May 30, 2011 - 5:13pm (Print)

Anti-choice activists have an interest in appearing to care about women, but recent events demonstrate that it's increasingly hard to keep up the facade.  

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STOKING FIRE: Fame Comes with Anti-Choice Shift

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by Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check

April 6, 2011 - 8:46pm (Print)

“When they go from pro-choice to anti-choice they’re following a redemptive paradigm. They see themselves transformed from sinners to saints. The opposite doesn’t have the same cache.”

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Anti-Choice Forces Adopt In-Your-Face Tactics and the Danger to Women is Real

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by Cynthia Soohoo, Center for Reproductive Rights

March 14, 2011 - 12:38pm (Print)

In Wichita, threats have resulted in a doctor agreeing not to provide abortion care. But the proper response is to stop the extremist behavior creating the terror, not try to shut down a doctor seeking to provide legal medical care.

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'Abortion' as Right's Multipurpose Scare Word

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

November 18, 2010 - 11:18pm (Print)

For social conservatives, abortion has now become a catch-all term for anything threatening, particularly if it relates to feminist politics: contraception, women's rights in general, even economic and social policies they disapprove of, such as health care reform.

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Where Have All the Pro-Choice Men Gone?

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reader diary by ColleenCrinion

February 11, 2010 - 11:35pm (Print)

A recent Gallup Poll found that fewer men identify as pro-choice today than they did in 2008. The sexism that's feeding the anti-choice side and why we need men to support women's reproductive rights.

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Would CBS air a pro-choice Super Bowl ad?

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reader diary by Lauren Martin

February 2, 2010 - 1:24pm (Print)

In deciding to air a Focus on the Family ad during the Super Bowl, CBS executives have effectively outed themselves as anti-choice and anti-woman.

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Baltimore's Limited-Service Pregnancy Centers Disclaimers Bill signed into law

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

December 7, 2009 - 11:45am (Print)

Today, the Limited-Service Pregnancy Disclaimers Bill was signed into Baltimore law. The bill ensures that women who enter Baltimore area Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) hoping to find access to birth control, information about a potential pregnancy, or referrals to abortion providers will be immediately informed if those services are not available.
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Terry v. Newman

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by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 27, 2009 - 9:19am (Print)

The dispute between Randall Terry and Troy Newman sheds light on the way that activism can satisfy a person’s hunger for attention and influence—how it can become a power trip.

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Who Are You Calling Baby Killer?

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by Carol Mason

August 24, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

Before it was used as an anti-choice accusation, the phrase "baby killer" was hurled at American soldiers returning from Vietnam in the 60s and the 70s.
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Des Moines Anti-Choicer Hopes to Free Alleged Tiller Assassin

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by Jason Hancock, New Journalist Project

August 19, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

A Des Moines anti-abortion activist has had repeated contact with the man accused of killing Kansas doctor George Tiller in May, and is even working on a legal strategy for him that he believes will result in acquittal.
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