A new declaration spells out the rights of providers t practice medicine free from fears of violence, harassment, and intimidation; to give patients complete, medically accurate information about procedure; and to continue training and research.

Written by Dr. Suzanne Poppema for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

I recently had the honor of addressing a group of abortion providers on “Resurrecting Our Moral Center.” I do not think it was coincidental that less than a year after Tiller’s murder, we were talking about resurrection. God, how much we miss him.

Written by Trusting Women for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

On the one year anniversary of his murder, remembering the life and death of my friend and collegue, Dr. George Tiller.

Written by Julie Burkhart for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Kansas has long been a hotbed of anti-choice protests stoked by a hard-right political climate and conservative religious views. But the prairie state is now home-base for the most radical elements of the movement.

Written by Wendy Norris for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The anti-choice focus on late abortions demonstrates two major contradictions between their stated point of view and their actual point of view and reveals how intellectually bankrupt their position is.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Feminists stand firm on never telling women what they should do, allowing them full choice about their bodies and lives.  But we need to better support women when they speak about their experiences. 

Written by Sarah Seltzer for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

I am not a fan of anger. While it can motivate in the short-term, it can very easily become like a fire, which has to consume more and more fuel to keep burning hotly. This makes it a dangerous tool to use to motivated people. Not that this stops anyone from taking the plunge and lighting fires of discontent, especially in the Tea Party movement and the Religious Right who occupy the same section of a Venn diagram of the conservatives in this country.

“Originally posted at Squarestate.net”

On the one hand, there is the sense of victimization that is required to stoke the anger, on the other there is the need to be tough and bad-assed to take on the supposed oppressors. We have seen the one in the so-called “War on Christmas” and we are seeing the other with the conservative need to change the perception of Jesus.

You may be aware of the Conservative Bible project that Conservapeadia is running. They are re-writing the Bible to fit their ideology, based on these ten principals:

As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[3]
1. Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

2. Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, “gender inclusive” language, and other feminist distortions; preserve many references to the unborn child (the NIV deletes these)

Scott Roeder was arraigned today on charges of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Roeder pleaded not guilty.

What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is “children,” and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.

Welcome to the destructive dilemma du jour. The Tiller family have understandably decided to close Dr. Tiller’s clinic. Now what?