Planned Parenthood of the Heartland deserves a medal for seeking to address the geographic (and often economic) disparity in access to abortion in a smart and safe way.

Written by Kathleen Reeves 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.

A federal law, commonly referred to as the FACE Act, was supposed to curb disruption and violence at abortion Clinics. But does it?

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

Talking about the lies being spread by anti-choice leaders regarding the Senate health care bill.

We asked folks at the March for Life on the Roe v Wade anniversary this past Friday if they could explain their claim that proposed health care reform would fund abortion with tax dollars.

Interview with Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue at a press conference in front of the White House, where he is unable to explain how the health care bill will fund abortion.

The FBI is investigating the assassination of Dr. George Tiller to determine if the killer broke any federal laws. Terrorism is a federal crime, but I predict the feds will find some excuse to avoid investigating the crime as an act of terrorism. If they did, under strict standards of the PATRIOT Act, they might be forced to declare Operation Rescue a terrorist organization.

It is tempting to want to limit the rights of groups like Operation Rescue in order to prevent acts like the assassination of Dr. Tiller, but it is exactly the wrong way to go about this.