When he wrote the following passage, he was referring to the anti-abortion plank in the 2004 Republican Party Platform. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)
Franks called the anti-abortion fight "the civil rights struggle that will define our generation." ❋ Dana Milbank (2011)
There is actually no medical procedure termed partial birth abortion; it is a phrase coined by anti-abortion activists. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)
As Eugene has noted, protests at the home of a target has long been a tactic of anti-abortion activists. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Question for blazingly ignorant victim disarmament bigots: In what way are defamation statutes, prohibitions on pornography in elementary schools, consumer protection laws that limit speech, anti-abortion gag rules, and similar restrictions analogous to current or proposed gun control laws in the real world, other than in the trivial sense that all are restrictions on a constitutional right? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not like the anti-abortion folks who (to paint with a broad brush) have been guilty of murder, clinic bombings, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Question for gun extremists: Should people who tolerate defamation statutes, prohibitions on pornography in elementary schools, consumer protection laws that limit speech, anti-abortion gag rules, and similar restrictions be termed anti-speech, anti-freedom socialists and communists? ❋ Unknown (2010)
As EV has pointed out, anti-abortion groups have been using this for a while. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How would the prejudgiced person accusing gun people of being anti-abortion feel about the following abortion law: ❋ Unknown (2010)
If he really wanted the bill to have stronger anti-abortion language they could have easily shot itdown. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Arthur Kirkland: Question for gun extremists: Should people who tolerate defamation statutes, prohibitions on pornography in elementary schools, consumer protection laws that limit speech, anti-abortion gag rules, and similar restrictions be termed anti-speech, anti-freedom socialists and communists? ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am not an anti-abortion Stupak hater, but it occurs to me it would be easier to stop abortions and thus save lives than to do whatever is necessary to save lives through reduced miscarriages ........ ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Stupak issue became a tool for three groups — the partisans who opposed health care reform every good-or-bad inch of the way for political reasons, the “mission from God” extremists on abortion, and those who profit from lathering up conservatives in general and anti-abortion conservatives in particular. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gail Anderson had been an anti-abortion activist before her pregnancy and abortion. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yet this E.O. appears to have mollified Rep. Bart Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats and angered abortion rights groups. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Oh wait, anti-abortion folks have committed murder and bombings? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Questioners pressed Mr. Romney on his shifting stance from abortion-rights supporter to an anti-abortion position. ❋ Jonathan Weisman (2011)
Stupak apparently was offered a face-saving safety valve, one that might work to the advantage of the anti-abortion cause that is important to him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
