Abortion

[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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Tastes Like Progress

Inauguration Breakfast

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

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

Commie Girl

Real Live Boys: The snowflakes make us crazy

Aborting Their Own

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

How Green Was My Valley?

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

God Help Him

Pastor Wiley Drake explores a run to replace wimpy president

Fool's Gold

Slate Nailer

Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

Diary of a Mad County

Perp Walks

Letters

Anthrax? Yawn

Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

Cypress

Capital of Bionic Records

Bonjour! Cest Me!

I want to be classy!

John G. Schmitz, In His Own Words

Preg Knot

Keely and Du do the abortion debate

Hog Heaven

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

Excerpts: Part 2

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Way Far Right

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

Hustled

Hustler publisher may out Southern California congressman

Blood Money

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

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

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans

Abstaining from Reality

President Clinton funds anti-sex programs