Abortion

Rep. Michele Bachmann and her colleagues in the House Pro-Life Women’s Caucus railed against a proposal by President Obama to loosen restrictions put in place by the Dornan Amendment, which prevents women on public assistance in the nation’s capital from undergoing abortion procedures. Bachmann was joined by anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List at a [...]

Weeks after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his Kansas church, the U.S. Senate is debating a resolution condemning violence against abortion providers. But abortion politics has made even the simple task of passing a resolution denouncing violence into a contentious battle. The words “reproductive health care” could be a deal breaker with [...]

Coleen Rowley, Minnesotan and former FBI whistleblower, told Talking Points Memo on Thursday that the FBI missed an opportunity to intervene before Scott Roeder murdered Kansas physician George Tiller.

A candlelight vigil will be held in Loring Park at 9 pm on Tuesday evening, June 2, to honor the life of Dr. George Tiller, a reproductive health physician who was gunned down in his church on Sunday by an anti-abortion gunman.
While the candlelight vigils have become an important way for the community to remember [...]

After yesterday’s shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Colorado physician who provides abortion services said Tiller’s assassination was the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism, according to an interview with our sister site, the Colorado Independent.

Miguel Diaz, a Collegeville, Minn., professor, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as ambassador to the Vatican. Diaz, a theology professor at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, supported Obama’s presidential campaign and that fact, say anti-abortion activists, means he cannot be pro-life.

Anti-abortion programs and opposition to human cloning fared well under the governor’s watchful eye toward the end of the legislative session — and that has earned Gov. Tim Pawlenty high marks from anti-abortion activists. But, despite those few successes, much of the agenda of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) went unfulfilled.

The anti-abortion activist who rammed his SUV into a St. Paul Planned Parenthood in January was convicted last week, but the state is seeking to have him permanently committed for mental illness. His family — and other supporters — are decrying that move. In an email, Matthew Derosia’s mother characterized the crash as a “non-violent protest,” stating he was “only doing what God asked him to do.”

Minnesota’s largest anti-abortion group says state-funded anti-abortion programs are responsible for a drop in the number of abortions among low-income women. If the group’s assertion is correct, the programs cost taxpayers more than $200,000 per woman successfully treated.

An anti-abortion activist who rammed his truck into a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul is being hailed as a political prisoner by the Army of God movement, the Pioneer Press reports.