Author Archive, Sofia Resnick

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The anti-abortion game of life

By | 05.04.12 | 5:16 pm

To bring down the high chlamydia infections rate among Tennessee teenagers, an anti-abortion pregnancy center in Athens, Tenn., has proposed spending federal tax dollars on a life-sized version of the Game of Life More….

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Jobs for Christians

By | 04.24.12 | 10:00 am

If you want to help carry out the anti-abortion mission of the taxpayer-funded Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center, you have to be a Christian. More…

NOM docs show ties to anti-gay-marriage PAC

By | 03.27.12 | 6:56 pm

Recently unsealed court records and internal documents More… from the National Organization for Marriage illustrate the close ties between NOM and a committee formed in 2009 to repeal same-sex marriage in Maine.

Could bans on ‘wrongful birth’ suits endanger women?

By | 03.21.12 | 8:00 am

Earlier this month, a jury awarded nearly $3 million in damages to a Portland, Ore., couple who said they would have aborted their daughter had they known she was going to be born with Down syndrome. More…

Group pushes more anti-abortion laws with sights on ‘Roe’

By | 02.29.12 | 10:44 am

The national anti-abortion-rights group behind Virginia’s controversial ultrasound bill last week released seven new bills it plans to push through state legislatures this year. More…

The rising power of crisis pregnancy centers

By | 02.22.12 | 8:00 am

For the average crisis pregnancy center, each abortion stopped is counted as a victory in what is often described, by both sides of the abortion-rights debate, as a war. And while unhappily pregnant women tend to seek out abortion clinics, crisis pregnancy centers tend to seek out those unhappily pregnant More…

Virginia ultrasound bill at odds with medical standards

By | 02.16.12 | 1:56 pm

“Vaginal penetration” appeared in news headlines Wednesday, following the Virginia House’s passage of a bill that mandates that all women seeking an abortion must first undergo a diagnostic examination using an ultrasound at least two hours before going forward with the scheduled abortion. The purpose of the proposed law as stated More…

National Organization for Marriage co-founder says equality does not require benefits for gay couples

By | 02.13.12 | 12:18 pm

A major theme at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference More… in Washington, D.C., was that the Republican Party should once and for all erase the line between social and fiscal issues and further the argument that conservative social policies benefit the economy.
Same-sex marriage opponents participating in a Saturday panel

At CPAC, leaders urge steering birth control conversation toward abortion

By | 02.10.12 | 4:01 pm

Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the most prominent leaders of America’s anti-abortion movement, speaking Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference More…. During a talk on how to advance the movement through messaging, an all-female panel discussed the Obama administration’s birth-control-coverage mandate and

(VIDEO) Peter Brimelow brings controversy to CPAC for nationalist views

By | 02.09.12 | 7:33 pm

The American Conservative Union has already taken heat early into this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference for banning a pro-gay conservative group while welcoming a speaker with controversial views against multiculturalism that progressive advocacy groups have branded “white nationalist.” More …

Navigating anti-abortion online strategy

By | 02.07.12 | 11:53 am

Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*.

In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and, most recently, on the Internet. More …

Ongoing study shows ultrasounds do not have direct impact on abortion decision

By | 02.06.12 | 9:00 am

Last week, Virginia became the latest state to consider mandating ultrasounds for all women who want an abortion. But as more states inject mandatory ultrasound policies into their abortion laws, a group of scientists is attempting to influence the debate with new research showing that ultrasounds, while useful and informative, do More…

Seniors have sex and should get tested, HIV researchers say

By | 01.31.12 | 2:20 pm

Many people at risk for contracting HIV aren’t getting tested for the virus or being targeted for preventative efforts, because they are – in a word – old. More…

At LGBT conference leaders warn against too much focus on marriage over other issues

By | 01.30.12 | 10:42 am

This weekend approximately 3,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists descended upon Baltimore, Md., for a national advocacy conference, while a few miles away the Republican branch of Congress — which consistently resists pro-LGBT policies – gathered for a retreat. More …

(VIDEO) Chris Smith: ‘Obama is the enemy of life’

By | 01.24.12 | 11:05 am

The 24th GOP presidential debate in Tampa, Fla., Monday night drove home what has become more clear in the past few weeks: The Republican Party, at this stage in time, is not united — at least when it comes to who they think should lead the country instead of Barack Obama. More …