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'Egg-as-Person' Crusade Drives Big Money to Anti-choice Groups

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

August 17, 2009 - 7:00am

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In just five short years, the primary movers and shakers in the absolutist anti-abortion/anti-choice movement seeking to promote the “personhood” of zygotes (the single cell that forms after a sperm fertilizes an egg) have amassed nearly $58 million in tax-deductible contributions for their cause. A special investigative report by Wendy Norris for RH Reality Check.

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VIDEO: Anti-Health Care Reformers Turn to Threats of Violence

By Emily Douglas

August 13, 2009 - 10:00am

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In a chilling collection of anecdotes, Rachel Maddow last night connected the dots between a handful of instances of threatened and parodied violence against Democratic, pro-health care reform legislators and the known tendency towards violence among the radical right in the United States.

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