Subject:

Abortion

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    [UPDATED] Loretta Sanchez Calls Republican Attack on Planned Parenthood "A Shame"

    ​[UPDATE at 5 p.m.: After her morning TV appearance, Congresswoman Sanchez appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews in the afternoon and reiterated her stance that "it's really sad" that Komen for the Cure has decided for political reasons to attack "a very important" medical resource for countles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    [UPDATED: Billboards Removed] Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'

     UPDATE, JUNE 21, 3:57 P.M.:  If you haven't seen the anti-choice billboards in Los Angeles that proclaim, "The most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb," you missed your chance--at least for now.All three billboards, which were paid for by The Latino Partnership for Conservative P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'

    Where's the most dangerous place for a Latino/a to be?unidosporlavida.org.mx​Well, according to a throng of recently-unveiled billboards in Los Angeles, it's inside their mom's womb.  Gabriela Valle, senior director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, says the billboards, which st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Did Prayer Close a Newport Beach Abortion Clinic?

    Made it!​It's often said that Southern California residents are apathetic in comparison to other areas of the nation, but for years you could drive by a building not far from the gates of John Wayne Airport and see a large group of adults on the sidewalk holding signs and hands, and praying.The ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    OC Planned Parenthood Funding in Crisis

    ​On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget resolution that eliminates Title X, a program that gives low-income women access to family-planning services. Taking the biggest hit is Planned Parenthood--the nation's largest reproductive health services provider--which would lose a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Justin Bieber: Future Prime Minister?

    ​I swore that I would never write about the Bieb again, but this was too good not to mention. Bieber is at it again. He just graced the new cover of Rolling Stone, and he got into some heavy subjects like sex, politics, abortion and rape. Now I know the 16-year-old isn't running for office an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, Imprisoned Ex-Santa Ana Abortion Clinic Owner, Could Win Early Release, Claim Pro-Lifers and LA District Attorney

    ​Give Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley credit for this: He knows how to get anti-abortion advocates to do his bidding. Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, the former owner of a Santa Ana abortion clinic where women were once treated like slabs in a butcher shop, was sentenced in 2009 to 10 years in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Married Topless Pro-Abortion Gays Unite!

    ​California voters overwhelmingly support reproductive rights and, if they were to cast ballots tomorrow, a majority would support same-sex marriage, according to separate polls out today.But those findings are not nearly as surprising as the one concerning American attitudes toward nude sunbathin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Roe v. Wade Wades into Newport Beach

    ColbertNation.comSheryl WuDunn, who appeared on "The Colbert Report" last year, is the guest speaker at Saturday's Roe v. Wade event.​A Roe V. Wade commemoration will be held Saturday evening in Newport Beach and--guess what?--it's a celebration of the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision leg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Bush to be Honored for Abortion Opposition at Hush-Hush Catholic Event in Dana Point

    UPDATED WITH PROTEST PLANS . . . Goo-goo.​Abortion remained safe and legal during his presidency, but for George W. Bush's opposition to embryonic stem cell research, executive order barring federal funds from being used for abortion related projects abroad, appointment of two pro-life Supreme Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 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 coun ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 9, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​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 coun ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

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

    ​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 coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 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.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 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, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 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 Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    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 providin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Tastes Like Progress

    Inauguration Breakfast

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    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 like ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2008

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

    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 like ... More >>

  • News

    August 7, 2008

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

    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 like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 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 Pfpaje ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2007

    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 fort ... More >>

  • Film

    October 4, 2007

    Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

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

  • Columns

    August 31, 2006

    Commie Girl

    Real Live Boys: The snowflakes make us crazy

  • News

    July 7, 2005

    Aborting Their Own

    OC conservatives say a San Diego publisher has hijacked the anti-abortion movement

  • Columns

    January 6, 2005

    How Green Was My Valley?

    Tsunamis, bloody abortions, and the Painter Of Light, Thomas Kinkade!

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    God Help Him

    Pastor Wiley Drake explores a run to replace wimpy president

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Fool's Gold

    Pastor Wiley Drake explores a run to replace wimpy president

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Slate Nailer

    Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

  • Columns

    October 17, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Perp Walks

    Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

  • Columns

    December 6, 2001

    Letters

    Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Anthrax? Yawn

    Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Cypress

    Capital of Bionic Records

  • Columns

    June 21, 2001

    Bonjour! Cest Me!

    I want to be classy!

  • Columns

    January 25, 2001

    John G. Schmitz, In His Own Words

    I want to be classy!

  • Culture

    November 30, 2000

    Preg Knot

    Keely and Du do the abortion debate

  • Columns

    November 23, 2000

    Hog Heaven

    Exploding GOP heads, nipples with pasties and people who were mean to me

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Excerpts: Part 2

    Exploding GOP heads, nipples with pasties and people who were mean to me

  • Columns

    August 12, 1999

    How I Spent My Summer Vacation

    Exploding GOP heads, nipples with pasties and people who were mean to me

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Way Far Right

    Likely new chairman promises to make state GOP the Party of God

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Hustled

    Hustler publisher may out Southern California congressman

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    Blood Money

    Anti-abortion activists attack cozy relationship between county republicans and abortion doctor

  • Articles

    July 2, 1998

    'BLOOD MONEY' ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS ATTACK COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTY REPUBLICANS AND ABORTION DOCTOR

    Anti-abortion activists attack cozy relationship between county republicans and abortion doctor

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans

    Anti-abortion activists attack cozy relationship between county republicans and abortion doctor

  • News

    March 27, 1997

    Abstaining from Reality

    President Clinton funds anti-sex programs

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