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This is the single most important question in the abortion debate as far as the right-to-lifers are concerned. For them, it is a no-brainer.

OBAMA SUPPORTS KILLING BABIES AFTER THEY ARE BORN.

Aid experts alarmed by Canada's new anti-abortion stand were advised by a Conservative senator that silence is their best strategy against Harper.

In states across the country, women are being arrested for the crime of ending their own pregnancies-though they have a constitutional right to do so in a doctor's office. Michelle Goldberg on a worrisome new trend.

KILLING BABIES

Even stupid, self-centered Republican men have the right to their beliefs, I just don't want them imposed on me. Besides, I respect the opinions of people who speak from experience and have a stake in the outcome of the problem they seek to resolve. To my way of thinking, if Republican men really want to have credibility about the abortion issue, then they should get knocked up. Until then, I for one would appreciate it if they would just shut the f**k up.

NY Activists Joined NOW NY State on Dec.4, 2009 in front of Senator Schumer's office demanding that he takes the front line on women abortion rights and urge

Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the "mistake of 1937," the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post's author (with whom I have done research) points out, economic conditions today - with output growing, some prices rising, but unemployment still very high - bear a strong resemblance to those in 1936-37. So are modern policy makers going to make the same mistake?

On March 3, 1873, Congress passed the Comstock Act banning contraceptives. The statute defined contraceptives as obscene and illicit. The belief was that contraception was lewd, immoral and promoted promiscuity.

The moratorium on giving pregnant mothers any experimental drugs and vaccines was banned by President Kennedy in the 1960′s yet, the FDA allows Gardasil to be promoted by doctors to young pregnant mothers.

Since the 2010 elections, according to the Guttmacher Institute, Republican legislators have introduced more than 2,000 bills related to women's reproductive healthcare. The assault on women's health and freedom denies millions of women access to affordable contraception, life-saving cancer screenings, testing for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases. Some laws call for measures as drastic as imprisonment. In 2013, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, published the results of a study that examined cases in which a woman's pregnancy led to arrests and incarceration, detentions in hospitals, mental institutions, and forced medical interventions. The summary of some cases follows: