Posted on Jul 31, 2007, Source: The American Prospect
A new movement seeks to award special certificates to fetuses that are stillborn, but pro-choice advocates worry that this is yet another step toward fetal personhood that could endanger abortion rights.
Some Georgia legislators want their state constitution to recognize embryos and fetuses as persons from the moment of conception. It's a sign of a widening strategic divide within the anti-choice movement.
Women could stand to gain substantially from a law that would expand hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation and disability. But will the legislation stand a chance?
The Hyde Amendment has prevented federal funding of abortion services to low-income women for three decades. Now that its namesake has left Congress, pro-choicers are campaigning to dismantle it.
With Nancy Pelosi as the presumptive next House speaker, another woman Senator elected and at least another four Democratic women elected to the House, this was an election women can be proud of.
To pro-choicers' dismay, the Senate has approved a bill prohibiting anyone from taking a minor over state lines to avoid parental notification laws. What's next?
Women's rights activists have been loudly protesting John Roberts' nomination for Supreme Court Justice -- but political observers say the conservative judge is likely to be confirmed.
