The Louisiana health department will follow a federal judge’s order and refrain from immediately penalizing doctors who are trying to comply with a new abortion law that requires them to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital, a spokeswoman said Monday. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued a temporary restraining order late Sunday that blocked […] Continue reading → 
Susan Calloway Knowles, Governor Jerry Brown: Abortion ‘Champion’ California Gov. Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., has been busy lately continuing to champion the cause for abortion rights in California. Brown recently signed a bill into law that would require all insurance companies to provide abortions under their policies. The result would require all employers, even […] Continue reading → 
Cortney O’Brien, Scarlett Johansson may be known as the butt-kicking Black Widow in the “Avengers” franchise, but in real life her recurring role is less-than-heroic. Just call her Planned Parenthood’s biggest cheerleader. The Hollywood starlet is the enthusiastic new face of Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s new advertising campaign. Their latest project, which comes on the heels of the […] Continue reading → 
Joanne Moudy Planned Parenthood took a big hit on Tuesday after the District Court for Polk County, Iowa upheld a ban on “webcam” abortions. Judge Jeffrey Farrell’s ruling concluded that abortions – if done at all – really should be done after a complete medical exam. Better yet, Judge Ferrell ruled that the medical exam […] Continue reading → 
John Hawkins As the late, great Eric Hoffer once said, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” So it is with feminism. There was a time in America when women couldn’t vote, when they weren’t allowed to work in the same professions as men and when […] Continue reading → 
A U.S. judge on Monday ruled unconstitutional an Alabama law that threatened to close three of the state’s five abortion clinics, while a trial opened in Texas with an abortion rights group trying to overturn restrictions imposed in that state. A number of abortion clinics have closed in recent months due to laws passed in […] Continue reading → 
Star Parker We now mark the one-year anniversary since important new regulatory restrictions on abortion were passed into law in Texas that protect life and make this nasty procedure safer for women that choose it. HB 2 was signed into law in July 2013. Its four major provisions require that abortion doctors have hospital admitting […] Continue reading → 
A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a Mississippi law that would close the state’s only abortion clinic is unconstitutional. The three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its 2-1 ruling in a case involving the state’s 2012 law, which required physicians at the clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to […] Continue reading → 
John Ransom At 74,000 pages, the IRS code is a mind-boggling ode to lobbying, pork-barrel spending and graft. These are the only good things that I can say about the IRS. Ode may be too friendly a word, however. Let’s instead call it an incantation for our country. Because the code holds a country in […] Continue reading → 
Democrats and Republicans are fervently pursuing a batch of doomed bills in Congress because they target a coveted prize in the Nov. 4 elections: female voters. Wednesday’s Senate vote on contraception legislation is the latest example of Democrats’ win-by-losing strategy, which forces Republicans to vote on sensitive matters that might rile women this fall. Recent […] Continue reading → 
Cortney O’Brien Just when you thought there couldn’t be another Planned Parenthood scandal, the pro-life group Live Action finds this: an employee encouraging a 15-year-old girl to engage in sex fantasy games with her boyfriend. In the second episode of a series entitled “SexEd: Planned Parenthood’s Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids,” a Live Action volunteer […] Continue reading → 
Star Parker Senate and House Democrats are outraged by the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby in the firm’s lawsuit seeking exemption from the Obamacare mandate that employers provide, free of charge, contraceptives to employees. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid called the Supreme Court decision “outrageous” and Democrats have introduced bills in the […] Continue reading → 
Matt Vespa Has abortion become the glue that holds liberals together? What is it about this horrific act that never ceases to energize the progressive left? Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, who’s now the Democratic candidate for governor, became a darling of the left with her filibuster on a bill that sought to ban abortion […] Continue reading → 
Liberal Hollywood, In the film “Obvious Child,” Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a stand-up comedian who specializes in making jokes about her private parts, with the occasional foray into fart humor. She is about to go onstage. Her friend offers her some encouragement: “You are going to kill it out there!” Donna replies: “I actually […] Continue reading →