An anti-choice group has launched what a lawsuit describes as a “campaign of harassment, intimidation, and invasion of privacy" in hopes of disrupting Planned Parenthood's operations.
“This legislation would be a step back for women,” said Gov. Tom Wolf, who has vowed to veto the anti-choice measure. “This legislation would be a huge step back for Pennsylvania.”
Search and arrest warrants recently unsealed in the case of accused Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. paint a picture of a man increasingly obsessed with anti-abortion violence.
Louisiana would join five states that force people to wait three days to receive abortion care. Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah all have 72-hour waiting periods.
There's a long tradition of politicians and authority figures railing against reproductive health-care services, yet claiming the right to use them for their own benefit.
Convicted murderer Scott Roeder is set to be re-sentenced in connection with the death of Dr. George Tiller while his associate Angel Dillard will stand trial for threatening another Wichita, Kansas abortion provider. These are particularly alarming developments at a time when anti-choice violence has spiked.
Students, speakers from local reproductive health clinics, and abortion storytellers are empowering each other and their communities to declare: “We are Abortion Positive, are you?”