- Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of 'Legitimate Rape' Don't Get Pregnant--"Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of 'legitimate rape' have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy." What do you think? (The Onion)
- Missouri Rep. Todd Akin says he 'misspoke' on rape and pregnancy--He claims he meant to say "forcible rape."
- Obama On Todd Akin: 'Rape Is Rape'--"And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me. So what I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women."
- CNN Host Makes Most of Akin’s No-Show--"When Representative Todd Akin abruptly cancelled an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday night, Mr. Morgan trotted out an empty chair instead." Piers also called Akin a "gutless little twerp" for not keeping his promise to appear on the show. NYT
- Thank you, Todd Akin--"The candidate exposed his party's misogyny, and the swift backlash is reason for defenders of women to celebrate." Salon
- Republicans Condemn Akin's Comments As Blemish On Party's Otherwise Spotless Women's Rights Record
- Pregnant Woman Relieved To Learn Her Rape Was Illegitimate
- Akin: I Misspoke—What I Meant To Say Is 'I Am Dumb As Dog Shit And I Am A Terrible Human Being'
- Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia--Pro-life kills. The Dominican Republic's constitutional amendment declares 'life begins at conception', but this just ended up killing the mother.
- Louisiana Department Of Education Orders School To Drop Ban On Pregnant Students--A public school planned to force pregnancy tests on its students.
- Health Care Reform Leaves Out Young Pregnant Women
- Komen president resigning, founder shifting roles
- Millions Lost: Rush Limbaugh Continues To Be Bad For Business
- Philippines: Catholic bishop goes after Ateneo professors for heresy--They warned other schools they'd be stripped of their status if they supported the Reproductive Health bill.
- I Wish My Mother Had Aborted Me--"Lynn Beisner explains the difference between the two phrases 'The best choice for both my mother and me would have been abortion' and 'I wish I had never been born.'"
- Actress Elizabeth Banks: Romney won't help women with 'a heavy flow'
- Texas Loses Entire Women's Health Program Over Planned Parenthood Law
- Kansas: All charges dropped against Planned Parenthood
- Pakistani wife in disputed marriage gunned down in court by her brother
- UK court jails parents for life over honor killing of teen daughter
- Punjab girl hires contract killers to eliminate parents for opposing her marriage--"The girl, Manpreet Kaur, wanted to kill her parents and brother as they objected to her decesion of marrying her beau, who was already married." That's a new twist.
