Rep. Michele Bachmann called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood in an interview with Republican news outlet CNSNews. Bachmann also said that health care reform should be defunded as well because she says it pays for abortions. Much of what Bachmann had to say about abortion in the interview has previously been ruled false by independent fact-checkers.
Rep. Tom Hackbarth, R-Bethel, was stopped by police last week in the Highland Park parking lot of Planned Parenthood after witnesses observed a gun on his hip, according to a report by the Star Tribune. Hackbarth said he was searching for a woman he met on an online dating website who he thought was with another man.
When Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state agencies to refrain from applying for discretionary grants through “Obamacare,” the reaction from many quarters was swift and harsh. While most see the executive order as a crushing blow to Minnesota’s health care system and budget deficit, some say the impact will be minimal financially but could cause the legislature some headaches down the road.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has dubbed April “Abortion Recovery Month,” a designation that has rankled reproductive rights organizations. The proclamation supports Minnesota’s “abortion recovery programs” that “reinforce a culture of life and hope.” Pawlenty’s proclamation, which is similar to one by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, praises exclusively church-based programs.
Shannon Drury, president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Organization of Women, tells the Minnesota Independent that some of the compromises made in the health care bill are unacceptable and that leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were too eager to reach that compromise.
Abortion politics got injected into the process of passing GAMC, a health care program for childless adults in Minnesota living below the poverty line. As the Minnesota House was set to pass the a bill to extend the program…
Twenty-one-year-old Lila Rose is a superstar of the anti-abortion right, rubbing shoulders with conservatives like Gov. Tim Pawlenty and speaking at national events like last week’s Values Voter Summit. But her tactics — secretly videotaping visits to Planned Parenthood offices and presenting edited footage without context online — raise serious questions about journalistic ethics.
On the House floor Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that the health insurance reform package currently being debated by Congress would set up “sex clinics” in schools where students “taken away” to have abortions.
In the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,”…
The number of abortions performed in Minnesota declined in 2008 for the second straight year and marked the lowest number in more than 30 years. Reproductive health advocates said the decline…
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