As president Obama spoke to Planned Parenthood on Friday, Fox News aired footage of the Kermit Gosnell trial. The coverage is a perfect representation of the split in the abortion debate: on one side, a triumphant march of progress for women, and on the other side, a fixation on late-term abortion nationally. Less covered is how some states are working to stop all abortions.
Mitt Romney let his guard down a little bit on Tuesday, when he told the Des Moines Register that he wouldn't pursue any abortion legislation if elected to the nation's highest office.
Today in Ad Watch: Planned Parenthood makes its biggest ad buy ever, Mitt Romney buys ads in Wisconsin, Sen. Bob Casey is endorsed by a man on a motorcycle, and Tommy Thompson is tied to George W. Bush.
Today in books and publishing: former Komen executive criticizes Planned Parenthood; Geoff Dyer on Joseph Conrad; Brooklyn Book Festival breaks record; comic strip entered in DoJ suit.
Today in books and publishing: Susan G. Komen exec to tell her side of the Planned Parenthood story; bookstore imitates Chabon's fiction; Woodward's next book will cover Obama's economic strategy.
A few months ago we were wondering what the eventual fallout would be for the Susan G. Komen foundation after its defunding—then refunding—of breast cancer examinations at Planned Parenthood, and it seems like we have an answer: Registration for Komen's Race for the Cure is down by the thousands.
A very gross magazine spread featuring a crude Photoshop of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp in Hustler magazine has provided everyone with occasion to point out that you cannot say crude things about women, regardless of their politics.
Yes, Planned Parenthood turned down a half million dollar donation from fratire author Tucker Max, but the bigger question is why Forbes is allowing Max's PR lackey to write about it.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the GOP and contraception.
Maybe the GOP (or more specifically, certain members of the party) returned to the '50s in just one day, but the rest of us haven't. Beyond the obvious social and cultural shifts of the last 60 years, there is one major factor: the Internet.
The White House has announced that as a part of its compromise with religious groups who disagree with a new health care mandate around contraceptives, it will now shift the costs of contraceptives to insurance companies, instead of religious employers as it had initially planned.
Even after backtracking on its cut of funds for Planned Parenthood, the fallout for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation continues this morning with public policy senior vice president Karen Handel's sour-sounding resignation.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson has a different "cure" in mind for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation
Last night, in the fervor against Komen for cutting their Planned Parenthood funding (a decision now reversed), someone discovered a pink gun sold by Discount Gun Sales, which lead Scott Wooledge to quip, "Perfect for shooting yourself in the foot!" Might it also be good for killing off pink for good?
The Susan G. Komen foundation has reversed its position on Planned Parenthood, and will continue funding the organization after all, issuing a statement that apologizes "for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives."
Amid a flurry of resignations, a website hack, and national uproar over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's decision to cut off Planned Parenthood, its founder, Nancy Brinker, told reporters last night that the decision had nothing to do with abortions.
Despite the angry words and hurt feelings on both sides of the argument, this week's controversy will see both the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood come out ahead in one very important area: fundraising.
After the Komen Foundation kicked off a controversy by withdrawing its funding from Planned Parenthood, Michael Bloomberg has announced that he'll be donating up to $250,000 towards breast cancer screenings.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg has found that the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood was not taken quietly nor approved by its top public health official who resigned over the matter.
Hackers got ahold of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's website late last night, altering its copy to to read: "Help us run over poor women on our way to the bank"--a blunt take on the organization's decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood.
Yesterday the news broke that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation had decided to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, effectively ending Komen grants to Planned Parenthood for breast exams and mammograms, primary tools in detecting breast cancer early, and, in so doing, saving lives
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation decided to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, citing a Congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood, and apparently catching supporters of both organizations off guard.
No more co-pays for birth control! Let's make an Indian themed music video.
On the heels of controversial Texas legislation, more state attacks on abortion
The senator has his Planned Parenthood remark stricken from the congressional record
Republicans promise to use group's funding as bargaining chip in next budget debate
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