Subject: Abortion

• Hypocrites Unite!

  As everyone surely now knows, The Drudge Report has solved the Mark Foley mystery. As you know, Republicans are all about taking responsibility for one's actions. As they demonstrate here, they are indeed taking responsibility--for having an innocent "prank" about pedophilia (nice sense of humor, guys) fall into the hands of evil Democrats (oxymoron?). We just just picture Bill and Hill and Monica, hunched over the computer, copying, pasting and sending Foley's prank out to the masses. XXXXX DRU

  October 5, 2006

• Illegal Immigration: Follow the Bouncing Logic

  When it comes to examining the root causes of illegal immigration, some Republicans work overtime to reconcile their hatred of "illegals" (cough—Mexicans!—cough-cough!) with the Bible—something that's not always easy to pull off given that the Bible preaches goodwill to those who are less fortunate. Take the Oct. 29 opinion piece that appeared on the Republican Party of Orange County's website. Rosie Avila starts off on a promising note, stating that the issue cannot be resolved until

  November 12, 2007

• Strangest OC Register Bowdlerization EVER

  Back in the days when the Orange County Register was known as the Santa Ana Register, the paper was infamous for twisting phrases to suit the editorial philosophies of owner/old coot R.C. Hoiles--public schools, in perhaps the most famous example, were referred to as "taxpayer-supporter" or "gun run." The practice largely died once the Reg became a real newspaper, but a bizarre bit of its past philosophy arose today in a front-page story about a Placentia lesbian couple who had quadruplets.

  March 13, 2008

• A Picture's Worth a Thousand Whoop-Asses

  An anti-abortion activist taking photographs outside a controversial Santa Ana family planning clinic suffered minor injuries Saturday afternoon after being attacked by a physician who obviously did not appreciate having his picture taken. According to Santa Ana Police records, Howard Tendai Pfpajena, 66, was arrested on suspicion of assault and battery about 12:30 p.m. near Fourth and Sycamore streets. Online Christian and pro-life news services that earlier today reported [here and here] on t

  August 5, 2008

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation

  August 12, 1999

• Excerpts: Part 2

  September 14, 2000

• Ex-Owner of Santa Ana Abortion Clinic May Be Jail Bound

  LifeNews.com reports the owner of a chain of women's health clinics that caters primarily to Latinas - which until recently included Clinica Medica Para La Mujer at 120 W 5th St., Santa Ana, the site of an alleged assault by a physician on a pro-life photographer we blogged about in August - is likely headed to prison for up to 10 years.  Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, 48, (shown at left) pleaded no contest in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday to seven felony charges including pretending to be a

  December 5, 2008

• Supervisors Abort Planned Parenthood Funding

  As anticipated, the Orange County Board of Supervisors today cut about $300,000 in Planned Parenthood health education funding by canceling the nonprofit's contract through the Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics. Each Supe cited a moral objection to Orange-based Planned Parenthood providing abortions, even though the funds were not used for that. Chairman John Moorlach telegraphed his punch, having sent out an email blast to constituents after his problems with the funding appeared in

  March 10, 2009

• Tastes Like Progress

  January 15, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 11, 2008

• A Former Saddleback Congregant-Turned-Cub Reporter Purposely Drives to Rick Warren's Candidate Forum

  August 21, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] We Don't Need No Stinking Badges

  August 7, 2008

• Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Tony Kaye returns with an epic survey of the abortion debate

  October 4, 2007

• Letters

  December 6, 2001

• Commie Girl

  Everyone Has AIDS! (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS!)

  December 7, 2006

• Bonjour! Cest Me!

  June 21, 2001

• Commie Girl

  August 31, 2006

• Commie Girl

  May 25, 2006

• Lou Sheldon's Movin' On Up

  January 12, 2006

• Democratic Realpolitik

  October 6, 2005

• Aborting Their Own

  July 7, 2005

• Through the Looking Glass, Darkly

  April 14, 2005

• How Green Was My Valley?

  January 6, 2005

• The Year the Music Died

  December 30, 2004

• The Gospel According to the GOP

  October 28, 2004

• Bushs Big No. 2

  July 22, 2004

• God Help Him

  February 20, 2003

• Fool's Gold

  January 16, 2003

• Slate Nailer

  December 19, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 17, 2002

• Perp Walks

  August 15, 2002

• Anthrax? Yawn

  November 22, 2001

• Cypress

  September 27, 2001

• Balboa Bay Bombshell

  February 15, 2001

• John G. Schmitz, In His Own Words

  January 25, 2001

• Preg Knot

  November 30, 2000

• Hog Heaven

  November 23, 2000

• Way Far Right

  February 11, 1999

• Hustled

  January 28, 1999

• Blood Money

  July 9, 1998

• Abstaining from Reality

  March 27, 1997

• The Man, The Myth William J. Bennett Coming to OC

  Conservative pundit William J. Bennett is coming to the Richard Nixon Library and Museum Sunday to hawk the book he cowrote with John Cribb, The American Patriot's Alamanc. Bennett has written so many books that it's fun to contrast the titles with his own notoriety. For instance:The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993)It's made public Bennett was a high-stakes gambler who lost millions in Vegas (2003)Body Count: Moral Poverty . . . and How to Win America's War Against Crime

  April 21, 2009

• Planned Parenthood Seeks County Funds Despite Activist Supervisors

  Orange-based Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, which had its $300,000 health-services contract voided in March due to activist county supervisors, only to have the grant reinstated Tuesday along with regulations that will make it more difficult to attain future county funds, defiantly vowed to apply this week for the new money anyway. "We will not be deterred by their persistent bias against us," said Jon Dunn, the nonprofit's president and CEO, in a statement sent to the

  May 1, 2009

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009

• Planned Parenthood Still In the Running for County Funding

  All seemed to be said and done yesterday in the fight over whether Planned Parenthood should receive county funds for its non-abortion related health care programs.

  June 24, 2009

• How Pro-Life Activists and OC Supervisors Cut Off Funds to Planned Parenthood

  July 2, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 9, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 16, 2009

• Health Care Agency Blocks Planned Parenthood's Final Attempt to Secure County Funding

  ​After thirty years of working closely with the county and swooping in to absorb patients the county's shoddy public health care system could no longer treat, Planned Parenthood was forced to give up the county grant it has received for the past nine years. In a scathing letter written to the county Health Care Agency, CEO Jon Dunn ripped into the agency, and the board of supervisors, for blatantly erecting a series of barriers that have made it virtually impossible for the organization to rec

  July 31, 2009

• Did Anyone Get a Waiver From That Aborted Fetus in the Photo?

  ​As then-state Senator Bill Morrow (R-San Juan Capistrano) met with about 40 teen attendees of Operation Rescue's summer Survivors Camp in August 1999, a girl walked up to hand the past Pro-Life PAC of Orange County "Legislator of the Year" a jar with a fetus floating inside. Like her compadres, the teen was wary of how strong an anti-abortion advocate Morrow really was, and she figured the pickled unborn would remind the legislator to do what the kids b

  October 14, 2009