anti-choice activists
The Mask of Concern Slips from the Anti-Choicers Face
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
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.”
Anti-Choice Forces Adopt In-Your-Face Tactics and the Danger to Women is Real
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.
'Abortion' as Right's Multipurpose Scare Word
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?
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.
Would CBS air a pro-choice Super Bowl ad?
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.
Baltimore's Limited-Service Pregnancy Centers Disclaimers Bill signed into law
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
December 7, 2009 - 11:45am (Print)
Terry v. Newman
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.
Who Are You Calling Baby Killer?
by Carol Mason
August 24, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Des Moines Anti-Choicer Hopes to Free Alleged Tiller Assassin
by Jason Hancock, New Journalist Project
August 19, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
