Stories by Cristina Page

Cristina Page is the author of 'How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America' (Perseus Books, 2006).

Why the Anti-Choice Movement Is on the Verge of Civil War

When it comes to contraception, anti-chociers are alienating their own kind.

Right-wingers are desperately trying to undermine Hillary Clinton and the UNFPA, a family planning agency she avidly supports.

The issue many candidates don't want voters to think about is not abortion, but contraception -- and the media hasn't called them on it.

The Department of Health and Human Services is dismissing medical experts and instead using a definition of pregnancy based on polling data.

It's pro-choice policies that result in dramatic declines in the need for abortion, and it's the pro-choice candidates who truly value life.

Birth control is the best way to lower the abortion rate. So why are anti-choicers rallying against it and claiming that "the pill kills babies"?

A look at his record on choice shows that John McCain is more extreme than many anti-choice voters.

Mike Huckabee's "consistent pro-life position" is about more than abortion -- he's against basic birth control, too.

Cristina Page: It seems clear that an environment post-Roe would be harsher than pre-Roe.

Family planning has led to seismic change in our society, but not the kind of change the religious right would have you believe.

The groups trying to ban abortion have another plan up their sleeve: restricting your access to contraception.

Pro-life tactics have actually helped encourage abortions and have led to riskier sex, especially among teens.