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October 26, 2012 3:12 PM If States Embrace Romney’s So-called "Moderate" Stance, They Would Ban 90 percent of Abortions

In 2004, Lawrence Finer, Lori Frohwirth, Lindsay Dauphinee, Susheela Singh, and Ann M. Moore surveyed women patients at eleven large abortion providers. Their numbers, though imperfect, are pretty compelling when one considers the actual impact of proposed policy changes in...

By Harold Pollack

October 19, 2012 11:37 AM When Facts Don’t Meet Your Worldview, Just Stop Talking

Mouth, meet foot: Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) said Thursday that abortions are “absolutely” never necessary to save the lives of pregnant women. “With modern technology and science, you can’t find one instance,” Walsh said. “There is no such exception...

By Aaron Carroll

October 12, 2012 12:45 PM The Church of Paul Ryan

In last night’s vice presidential debate Martha Raddatz asked the vice president and Congressman Paul Ryan to discuss the role that their Catholic faiths “played in your own personal views on abortion.” This was sort of a soft ball question...

By Daniel Luzer

September 02, 2012 1:07 AM Republicans and Abortion: A Brief History

"The question of abortion is one of the most difficult and controversial of our time." That sweet reason is from the 1976 Republican platform, three years after Roe v. Wade, which ruled that a woman's right to abortion is protected...

By Michael Kinsley

August 21, 2012 9:00 AM What’s all the Fuss About Todd Akin?

Especially from the Republican side.1) If you believe, as the Catholic church does and most conservatives do, that abortion is murder, then it is irrelevant whether a woman becomes pregnant through rape or through consensual sex. At the moment of...

By Jonathan Zasloff