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.

Women aged 51 years of age and younger have never had the chance to vote for a Pro-Choice Congressional candidate.

Do you know the story about Madame Butterfly?

We’ve gotten nothing but lip service since day one of this administration. The lesson hurts like hell considering the source, but one guy had it all figured it out. Maybe it’s time we learned something from him.

Scott Roeder, who has openly admitted to killing Dr. George Tiller last May at the doctor’s church in Wichita, Kansas, tried and failed to convince Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert that a jury should consider a charge of voluntary manslaughter. A jury will soon decide whether he’s guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder.

(Proudly cross-posted at C4O Democrats)

Wow. Just wow. Ex-Christian-fundamentalist (or “Christianist”) Frank Schaeffer explained so well last weekend on D.L. Hughley where we’re at.

Now let me do my best to follow up.

(Proudly cross-posted at C4O Democrats)

I just found this at TalkLeft. After all the hell progressive/feminist activists raised over needed family planning funds being cut from the economic stimulus package, President Obama may be listening to our concerns after all. And better yet, he may be willing to do something about it!

Women’s health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress’ economic recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. [...] But the dismay may not last long. A source present at today’s White House signing ceremony for the Lilly Ledbetter bill tells me that President Obama gave assurances that the family planning aid would be done soon — perhaps as soon as next week, when the House is set to take up a spending bill that would keep the government funded until October.

But hey, you know me better than to think I’ll just “hope” that Congress just magically includes this in the spending bill next week. No, we need to make it happen!