January 26, 2012 9:55 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Smith: If Reelected, "Abortion President" Obama Will Push "Homosexual And Pro-Abortion Agenda" On America And The World
January 24, 2012 6:11 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Nunnelee's Misplaced Chivalry: 'Exploited' Women 'Suffer In Silence' From Legalized Abortion
January 24, 2012 2:30 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Exploits Tragic "Gendercide" To Push Anti-Choice Message
January 23, 2012 4:48 pm ET filed under Blog
At Anti-Abortion Rally, Rep. Gohmert Ties 'Arrogant' Pro-Choice Position To National Debt
January 03, 2012 2:30 pm ET filed under Blog
Ambitious Republicans Conveniently Discover Opposition To Abortion Just In Time To Woo Conservative Voters
January 03, 2012 11:09 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Bachmann: Obama Decreed That "Free Morning-After Abortion Pills" Be Given Out
December 20, 2011 2:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Judge: Personhood Proposals Would Limit Women's Access To Health Care
December 20, 2011 9:31 am ET filed under Fact Check
GOP In 2011: Anything But Jobs
Throughout the 2010 campaign cycle, Republicans capitalized on the struggling economy to bolster their case for election, promising to focus all their political efforts on job creation. Yet when the GOP assumed the majority in the House of Representatives, it quickly became clear that their "top political priority" — as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) admitted — was to "deny President Obama a second term." As such, the GOP, particularly in the House, has spent its legislative time on anything and everything but legislation to help the struggling economy get back on its feet or to spur job creation. Instead, they've introduced bill after bill on hot-button issues, particularly women's reproductive health; they've dragged the economy to the brink of disaster by playing political games with the debt ceiling; they've done their best to undermine the social safety net by proposing cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps; and they've tried over and over to repeal or deny funding to the landmark Affordable Care Act. Even worse, a number of the measures they've proposed would actually destroy jobs.
December 05, 2011 4:31 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Franks' Anti-Choice Hearing And The Radical Witness Who Will Testify
November 15, 2011 10:00 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Issa Sabotages His Own Good Idea
November 11, 2011 9:39 am ET filed under Blog
Personhood Redux: Alabama Tweaks Failed Mississippi Amendment
November 10, 2011 2:59 pm ET filed under Blog
Bogus Rep. Ellison Challenger Claims Quran "Says You Should Be Killed"
November 09, 2011 9:42 am ET filed under Blog
Gov. Barbour Explains Why Failed "Personhood" Initiative He Supported Was A Bad Idea
November 08, 2011 2:46 pm ET filed under Blog
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Says Children Will Be "Marched Into The Oven" By Opponents Of Personhood Amendment
November 04, 2011 5:53 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Fortenberry Complains HHS Is "Prioritizing Free Sterilization"
From a November 4, 2011, appearance by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:
November 04, 2011 5:01 pm ET filed under Blog
Gov. Barbour Votes For Personhood Bill He Admits Is Problematic
October 31, 2011 10:24 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - October 30, 2011
This week's Sunday talk shows included several GOP presidential contenders who have figured out that ignoring facts is a winning formula among their party's voters. While all the candidates who appeared on the shows parroted the same points they've been making for the past several months, there were also several new allegations. On Face the Nation, GOP frontrunner Herman Cain, after having adjusted his 9-9-9 tax plan to avoid tax hikes on those living in poverty, claimed that the exemption was there all along and that his critics simply misreported his plan. That's unlikely given that Cain has been on record defending taxing the income of those living in poverty. On This Week, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was called out for misrepresenting immigration statistics. Rather than acknowledge her mistake and move on, Bachmann claimed that she did not say what the video clearly showed her saying. And on Fox News Sunday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) repeated a slew of easily debunked economic talking points, including that President Obama had overseen the creation of "practically no jobs."
October 28, 2011 9:30 am ET filed under Blog
Wurzelbacher In April: "I Pray To God I Won't" Run For Congress
October 21, 2011 3:26 pm ET filed under Blog
Cain: Abortion Should Be Illegal, But It's The "Family's Decision" To "Break The Law"
October 20, 2011 12:19 pm ET filed under Blog
Herman Cain's (Accidentally?) Pro-Choice Interview
October 19, 2011 4:30 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. DeMint Slips Anti-Choice Amendment Into Agricultural Bill
October 13, 2011 2:08 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Foxx: Democrats Are Misogynist Because "50 Percent Of The Unborn Babies" Are Girls
October 07, 2011 1:21 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Meet Anti-Choice Crusader Rep. Cliff Stearns
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, may not be the most visible opponent of reproductive rights, but his recently launched investigation into Planned Parenthood and its affiliates has brought to light his extensive anti-choice record. In the wake of lobbying efforts by social conservative groups, Stearns has requested years of the reproductive health care provider's financial and policy records — a transparent attempt to find an excuse to deprive the organization of funding and disrupt its services. Meet Cliff Stearns, a new Tea Party caucus member and pawn of the right currently leading the crusade against women's rights.
October 06, 2011 4:28 pm ET filed under Blog
GOP Abandons Facts, Takes Its War On Women Overseas
October 06, 2011 2:01 pm ET filed under Fact Check
The House GOP's Crusade Against Reproductive Rights
In September, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, initiated an investigation of Planned Parenthood's financial records looking for misappropriated federal funds and requesting paperwork going back over 13 years. This Republican vendetta against Planned Parenthood is part of a larger fight in which Republicans are trying to prevent women from being in control of their reproductive health. To that end, House Republicans introduced a multitude of bills and amendments since January that would chip away at women's reproductive rights by eliminating Title X funding, defunding Planned Parenthood, imposing harsh restrictions on funding for abortions, replacing sexual education programs with abstinence-only programs, redefining rape to limit abortion exceptions, reinstating the global gag rule, supporting crisis pregnancy centers and imposing harsher parental notification laws.
September 30, 2011 3:16 pm ET filed under Blog
Republican War On Women's Health Redux
September 30, 2011 12:07 pm ET filed under Blog
GOP's Latest Funding Cuts Package Riddled With Same Old Ideological Riders
September 16, 2011 2:46 pm ET filed under Blog
Chipping Away At Abortion Rights: Medically Unnecessary VA Clinic Rules Take Away Choice
September 12, 2011 9:41 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Bachmann Invents Unilateral Obama Order Mandating Free 'Morning After Abortion Pills'
From the September 12, 2011, CNN/Tea Party Republican primary debate:
August 02, 2011 3:08 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Steve King Worries Free Birth Control Will Make Us A "Dying Civilization"
