The Sunny Side

When I was in the fifth grade, our class read (and was forced to memorize) The Optimist's Creed. Here it is: Promise yourself: To be so ...

Libertyville Abortion Demonstration

Antis are stupid: more at 11. (sadly I cannot embed this video, but please follow the link and watch it!)

In her shoes

Ahhh. A lovely Autumn day. The kind that starts off kind of chilly but nice, because you finally get to wear that cute jacket that's bee...

The Least Balanced Among Them

Sparky wrote a post about the Rachel Maddow documentary "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller." I watched it, and thought it was very ...

Nice save

Ahh, I just love the smell of lunacy early in the morning. The time is upon us: " 40 Days for Life " is well under way across the ...

Accidents Will Happen

Oh, Canada! I've been enjoying one of my guiltiest pleasures, Degrassi: The Next Generation, via Netflix. Not only do I enjoy the melodr...

Hump Day

Dear Readers, To get you through this Wednesday, I bring to you a collection of my favorite anti-choice propaganda. Unfortunately for us, it...

Obscenities

At the clinic where I escort, there is just the sweetest little anti you ever did see. Curly hair, freckles, a tender voice. She might be pi...

Plug for a fellow blogger: more on fathers

Sparky's had an unexpected travel-related contretemps these past couple of days, but that doesn't mean the pro-choice summer reading...

Cool Abortiony Vids

As a volunteer at the Global Health Council Conference, I had the opportunity to peruse the booths of other global health orgs and reprodu...

OUTRAGE OF THE CENTURY

Antis, even you can admit that this is out of line. Teacher Fired for Premarital Sex.

Surely I don't need to be writing this post at all. Right?

" It's time to stop treating us as two equal sides in a reasonable debate. Let's get it clear -- they are the perpetrators and...

Oh, Colorado.

Great news for people who might get pregnant in Colorado -- Anti-abortion groups there say they have gotten enough signatures for a proposal...

Will "web 2.0" change abortion, too?

Yesterday Bob R tipped us off to the story of a Florida woman named Angie  who's been live-tweeting her medication-abortion process for...

"Every child is valuable, and children aren't a punishment"

Sorry you haven't gotten your regular Monday-morning post. Work and/or school are swallowing a couple of us whole, but come back and chi...

What's Your Sign?

I have seen A LOT of stupid anti-choice signs, posters, comics, etc over the years. Here are some of my favorites: So... you were designed b...

endangered species?

I woke up this morning to hear a new attack on women’s reproductive freedom…billboards have gone up around Georgia stating that black babies...

Dumb

I had always wondered about this, but never really had an appropriate context in which to pose the question. Here goes: If Catholics are,...

Scare Tactics

One of the worst aspects about being an Abortioneer is the scare tactics. I'm not talking like Freddy Krueger. Mummies. Chainsaw-wieldin...

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of My Heart Palpitations

So, I recently got a boyfriend. Squee! My boyfriend, like most boyfriends, has a mom. Unlike most moms, she used to be a nun. I mean straigh...