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5 Dirty Tricks Right-Wing Zealots Will Likely Try Next in Their Battle to Control Women

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. December 28, 2011.

Here are some predictions for where the anti-choice movement will try to go in 2012.

10 Things I'd Say to the Anti-Choice Fanatics Trying to End Access to Abortion

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. July 27, 2011.

Here are ten realities pro-choicers should throw in the face of opponents of choice they have the misfortune to get into arguments with.

900 Anti-Woman Laws to Appease Conservative Extremists -- Is Abortion Becoming Legal in Name Only?

Sally Steenland, Center for American Progress. July 3, 2011.

When does a legal right become theoretical instead of real? If you want to know the answer, take a look at what’s happening to reproductive rights.

Pro-Choice Activists: How to Fight the Newest Wave of Racist Billboards Targeting Latinas

Steph Herold, RH Reality Check. June 15, 2011.

If you don't speak out about this racist propaganda, the anti-choice zealots will target you next.

The Heartless Way Conservatives Treat Young Women Who Choose to Have Babies

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. May 1, 2011.

If you get pregnant outside of their very narrow parameters of what's acceptable (middle class, married, white), conservatives simply want you to suffer for it.

Why Sarah Palin's Conservative Anti-Choice "Feminism" Is Total B.S.

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. June 23, 2010.

The argument underpinning anti-choice "feminism" is one based on the very un-feminist belief that women are simply too stupid to know their own minds.

Catholic Leader Says Woman Should Die With Her Fetus -- When Did Woman-Hating Go Mainstream?

Carole Joffe, RH Reality Check. May 24, 2010.

In many extremist anti-choice circles, full throated woman-hating never went away. But now it's entering the mainstream.

Updated: Catholic Officials Offer Platform to Antiabortion Extremist Randall Terry; Archbishop's Office Refuses Comment

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 5, 2010.

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, announced a training session for anti-choice activists at a facility run by bishops, including the archbishop of Washington, D.C.

Meet the 28 (Male) Anti-Choice Dems Who Are Stalling Health Reform

mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. November 3, 2009.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) claims he's recruited over 40 anti-choice Dems to sabotage the current bill.

Anti-Choicers Lobbying States for Wildly Unpopular "Personhood Begins at Conception" Amendment

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009.

From Florida to California, members of conservative groups are trying amend the constitution. Meanwhile, they still love the death penalty.

Anti-Choice Zealots' Latest Bizarre Ploy

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. September 24, 2009.

The one good thing about these extremists is that they help reveal the anti-woman, anti-sex agenda of the anti-choice movement.

Anti-Choice Floridians Peddling Constitutional Amendment to Criminalize Birth Control Pill

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 14, 2009.

The "Personhood Amendment" would define someone as a "person," regardless of age or health status, "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

Anti-Choice Zealots Make Bank Promoting the "Personhood" of Zygotes

Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check. August 18, 2009.

The 'egg-as-person' crusade is driving big money to anti-choice groups.

Anti-Choicers Distort Facts on Abortion Coverage in Health Reform

Susan Cohen, Guttmacher Institute. August 5, 2009.

Anti-abortion advocates are falsely claiming that health care reform would significantly increase abortions.

Are 'Birthers' and Anti-Choicers One and the Same?

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check AlterNet: PEEK. August 3, 2009.

There's a great deal of overlap between anti-choice nuts and birther conspiracy theorists.

Lila Rose: The New Darling of Anti-Choice Right-Wingers

Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches. June 24, 2009.

Anti-choice crusader Lila Rose has devoted her considerable media savvy to depriving other women of their reproductive rights.

The Dangerous Lies of Anti-Choice Extremists

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. June 4, 2009.

Every person who trots out vicious nonsense and misinformation about abortion played a part in the murder Dr. George Tiller.

North Dakota Takes a Sh*t on Women's Rights

Cara, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2009.

The North Dakota House passes a bill giving rights to fertilized eggs.

Good News and Bad News About Bush's Last-Minute War on Choice

Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 19, 2008.

I'm hugely pessimistic for the short-term, but optimistic about where this is going to go come January.

Before the Next Debate: Reach People Who Don't Know the Real McCain

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Election 2008. October 6, 2008.

Help increase the number who know the facts, and reach those who don't.

Trojan Donkeys: Anti-Choice Groups and the Democratic Party

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 12, 2008.

The left and the right pincers of the anti-abortion movement are slowly squeezing together.

The Anti-Choice Movement Is also Very Anti-Rubbers

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 29, 2008.

"The anti-choice movement opposes contraception, the number one way the vast majority of fertility-age American women avoid abortion."

The Real Pro-Life Candidate

Cristina Page, RH Reality Check. June 25, 2008.

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.

The Medical Right Wants to Deny You Health Care

Cynthia L. Cooper, Marjorie Signer, The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. June 9, 2008.

Christian medical groups have started a major campaign to demand that physicians be permitted to refuse medical care to patients.

U.K Anti-Choice Activism Embraces U.S. Tactics

Laura J. Winter, Women's eNews. June 6, 2008.

A loss by Britain's Labour Party earlier this month is emboldening anti-choice activists to study their U.S. counterparts' playbook.