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The National Review ran a magazine cover in which they Photoshopped signs at an Obama rally to read “ABORTION” instead of “FORWARD” as they originally did.
The top image shows the October 1, 2012 cover of “National Review” magazine.
The image at the bottom shows another photo taken at the same rally.
When Photoshop is used for evil.
Dr Willke, a prominent anti-abortion campaigner, claims to be an authority on the theory espoused by Mr Akin that victims of what the Republican congressman called “legitimate rape” do not become pregnant because their bodies “shut down” due to the trauma. …
Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor’s home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.
Read: The Telegraph
Twins at 12 weeks.
In The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ruth Padawer reports on the rise of a procedure known as “twin reduction,” or the selective abortion of one of two fetuses. Advances in reproductive medicine and fertility treatments have created a strange paradox, Padawer explains: “In creating life where none seemed possible, doctors often generate more fetuses than they intend.” Now, women who are pregnant with twins and only want one baby are seeking out the procedure, too, stirring a heated ethical debate…
Mitt Romney on abortion - 1994
I still need to read the book, but one thing I found incredibly interesting and timely was the “Donohue-Levitt hypothesis (pdf)”.
This hypothesis states that the SCOTUS decision in 1973 on Roe V Wade legalizing abortion is a big part of why crime rates began falling around 20 years later. Now they go to great lengths to explain that abortion is not a crime fighting technique, but rather that when women can legally control when they have children this leads to better home environments for the children they do have, which leads to these children growing up less likely to commit crime. The data they found during their study was obviously strong enough for them to make this assertion and propose this theory, and after reading up on it myself I am inclined to agree.
Google Seems to Think Abortion Is Murder
If you google “murder,” this is what comes up.
Continue reading… VillageVoice
Republicans violated a procedural rule that they put in place regarding citing the relevant Constitutional passage when putting forward a piece of legislation (the specific piece of legislation they were trying to put through was with regards to cutting funding for abortion clinics.) The Democratic Representative from New York, Anthony Weiner, called them out on it and spent 54 minutes arguing the point with them. I found it kinda fascinating to watch, if only because he’s clearly a motivated, clear speaker and it’s an insight into the American legislative process.
(via reddit)
I know I’m a dork, but I LOVE THIS SHIT.
I also love when Republicans trip themselves up in their own bullshit. And this chair is a complete fucking joke.
“The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the constitution?” he said. “And Barack Obama says no. Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’” - In an interview with CNS News on Thursday, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum invoked race in unleashing a questionable attack on President Barack Obama over the issue of abortion.
HuffPo
