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t r u t h o u t | Running From Reality

The RNC is in denial about its very shaky existence. It was obvious even to the casual observer that McCain and the rest of the Republicans had no new ideas and were creating a culture divide, some say culture war, to drive a wedge between the American people with false issues like abortion and gay marriage. It is time we call the Republicans on this and let the grand ole party become extinct. They brought this on themselves with their neglect of "we the people" while lining their own pockets and the pockets of the very rich with cash. The November election is only a few weeks away and Obma/Biden can lead this country down a new path. A path which goes through the neighborhoods of all Americans.

Essay - Doctor Recalls Abortion Complications Before Roe v. Wade

It is important to remember that Roe v. Wade did not mean that abortions could be performed. They have always been done, dating from ancient Greek days. What Roe said was that ending a pregnancy could be carried out by medical personnel, in a medically accepted setting, thus conferring on women, finally, the full rights of first-class citizens - and freeing their doctors to treat them as such.

Purported abortion art dupes media, public

"The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman's body," said Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky.

Yale Student Aliza Shvarts Disturbing Abortion Art Project | Bitten and Bound

Aliza Shvarts, an art major at Yale University, is stirring up controversy with her senior art project. Documenting 9 months of repeated artificial inseminations, followed by drug-induced abortions, Shvarts is exhibiting video recordings of the miscarriages, along with preserved collections of blood from the process.

Crisis looms as 18 million Chinese can't find a wife

China is planning to tighten punishments for sex-selective abortions amid concerns that its widening gender imbalance will lead to wife trafficking, sexual crimes and social frustration. Shocking new figures released by the state media show that the worst affected city...

Dems abstain from abstinence-only funding

Lawmakers plan to bid farewell to the Title V program because it has proved ineffective in reducing teen pregnancies.

NY Daily News Rips On Giuliani For Abortion Rights Flip-Flop

Pope Benedict condemned politicians - like Rudy Giuliani - who support abortion rights and said yesterday they should be excommunicated from the church. Giuliani, who took on the Vatican over abortion when he was mayor, declined to fire back yesterday.

Top court upholds abortion ban

Today s decision is alarming, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. She said the ruling refuses to take ... seriously previous Supreme Court decisions on abortion.

Abortion ultrasound rule advances in S.C.

Some states make ultrasound images available to women before an abortion, but South Carolina would be alone in requiring women to view the pictures. Critics consider the proposal a tool to intimidate women who already have made an agonizing decision.

McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned

How low will he stoop: "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.

S. Dakota Becomes Abortion Focal Point

A fresh poll suggests voters are inclined to oppose the law as too severe. In a late-July sounding, opponents of the ban held an eight-point lead, with 14 percent undecided. "There's going to be a lot of money spent," said state Rep. Roger W. Hunt (R), the ban's chief sponsor, urging voters to defend the unborn. Pointing to the vivid statewide conversation over HB 1215, formally known as the Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act, he said, "There are a lot of people who have gotten very political because of HB 1215."

Abortion under siege in Mississippi

Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state's last abortion clinic.

Statewide poll: Without key exceptions, more South Dakotans oppose abortion ban

According to the statewide poll, conducted for the Argus Leader and KELO-TV in Sioux Falls, 47 percent of voters polled would vote to reject the ban, compared with 39 percent who would vote to keep it. Another 14 percent were undecided. Support for the current form of the abortion ban came equally from men and women and matched the statewide 39 percent. The political breakdown showed only 23 percent of Democrats support the proposed law, while 51 percent of Republicans and 43 percent of independents back it.

Picture of aborted fetus to be flown over Cleveland

As a shock tactic, a national group that opposes abortion plans to fly a billboard-size picture of an aborted fetus over Cleveland beginning Monday. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which frequently employs such attention-grabbing advertising, hopes to jar people into reconsidering their support of abortion, director Gregg Cunningham said. "It will be categorically the most shocking we have ever done," he said. "The imagery is so horrifying that I can't almost stand to look at it."

March Together For Life: Murder without conscience

Idiot Pro-Lifer Cites Onion as Serious Journalism: "That's beautiful. I mean, the Onion is consciously working to create satire and yet you outdid them by writing an absurdly funny article without even knowing it! How on earth did you learn to use a computer?"