Abortion

Planned Parenthood Opponents Conjure Up Forced Sterilization, Baby Livers in Pepsi

For a shrill time, just add abortion. Or, in the case of Planned Parenthood's "invasion" of South San Francisco -- as Catholic Radio put it -- plan to not offer termination of pregnancies and suffer the preposterous parade regardless. There are about 10 Planned Parenthood and related clinics in the ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Finally Returns to Oakland After Long Hiatus

For the last two years, Oakland has been without its own Planned Parenthood, which meant patients had to trek to Walnut Creek, El Cerrito, or San Francisco in order to receive care. But trek no more -- Planned Parenthood has opened its doors in Oakland again. Planned Parenthood clinics vanished fr ... More >>

Women's Empowerment Dancing Flash Mob, Pro-Life March to Converge on Embarcadero

It's hard to differentiate pro-choice dancing from pro-life dancing. And Magalie Bonneau-Marcil insists that, tomorrow, San Franciscans will see neither. The founder of Dancing Without Borders is a co-organizer of a flash mob set for 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Justin Herman Plaza. She expects 500 or so ... More >>

Pro-Life Billboard Gets a More Unsavory Political Makeover

Last week, liberals across San Francisco were thrilled by the work of some left-leaning artists who took it upon themselves to revise a pro-choice billboard spotted along Cortland Avenue. It was like really cheap neighborhood beautification! The diligent folks at Bernalwood were the first to point o ... More >>

Barbara Boxer Diagnoses Todd Akin, Republican Party With Mommy Issues

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) took a brief break from politics yesterday and tapped into her inner Freud to conclude that all of this Republican crazy talk about rape and abortions is a sure sign that members of the GOP -- specifically Todd Akin -- suffer from some kind of weird mother fixation.The ... More >>

SOPA, Limbaugh, Komen: This Is What Happens When the Mob is Right

​There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>

The Craziest Anti-Planned Parenthood Ads

Planned Parenthood doesn't shy away from provocative gimmicks in its efforts to promote sex education and reproductive health; earlier this week, we brought you the news that the nonprofit has launched a new campaign encouraging people to "check in" to a special social network when they don condoms ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Wants You to 'Check In' When You Have Sex

​The nonprofit family-planning and sexual-health group Planned Parenthood has been much in the headlines over the past month. After a scandal over a potential loss of foundation funding, PP was hit with the bizarre accusations of a conservative Indiana state legislator who claimed the organization ... More >>

Indiana Republican Bob Morris Admits He's Really Scared of Girl Scouts

​Indiana doesn't make it in the news too often, and sadly, for the people of the Hoosier state, this is what happens when it does get its 15 minutes of fame.Paranoid Republican Rep. Bob Morris reportedly accused the Girl Scouts of being a radical branch of Planned Parenthood. More specifically, he ... More >>

S.F. Komen Affiliates "Thrilled" to Continue Funding Planned Parenthood

​The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation relieved its six California affiliates today when it pledged to reverse its unpopular policy to stop funding Planned Parenthood and its breast cancer prevention programs.During Komen's grant review process, the foundation decided that any organizations b ... More >>

There Are Two Conservative Girl Scout Cookie Boycotts This Year

​According to an article in Salon yesterday, this year Girl Scout Cookies are under attack. Yes, cookies. Conservative activists have spotted a tenuous link between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood -- apparently, some scouts attended an event at which a Planned Parenthood UK brochure arguing ... More >>

Bouncer Spies the Clipboard Peeps at House of Shields

Bouncer Visits House of Shields, a Beer Cave for the Clipboard Peeps

​From this week's Bouncer column: I found it ironic that I was walking to the House of Shields one afternoon when I found myself bombarded with people in bright pink T-shirts from Planned Parenthood. I, like most Tea Party Patriots, associate the organization with birth control, or "shields" ... More >>

Is Google Reponsible for Anti-Abortion Center Posing As Abortion Provider?

Be careful what you search for. ​By now, we've accepted the fact that Google relies on our online searches to target products for advertising. But City Attorney Dennis Herrera is not; the mayoral candidate is asking one San Francisco anti-abortion counseling center to stop web advertisements that ... More >>

Oakland Discriminates Against Anti-Abortion Activists, Judge Says

​Oakland discriminates against anti-abortion activists by selectively enforcing their "bubble ordinance," which prohibits contact with individuals entering reproductive health clinics, the Ninth Circuit has ruled. The ordinance, which was passed in February 2008, makes it unlawful for anyone to ... More >>

The Politics of Sexual Health

UCSF Study: Some Indian Immigrants Get Sex-Selection Abortions

A startling study from UCSF. ​The recently published UCSF study illuminates a startling trend: Indian immigrant women are using  reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the United States to abort female fetuses, acting on cultural pressure from their family to bear only son ... More >>

Newsom Tweets His Support for Planned Parenthood; Asks Followers to Sign Petition

A message from Gavin Newsom​With the U.S. Congress on the precipice of stripping away federal funds for Planned Parenthood, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking Californians to sign an open letter opposing the controversial legislation. True to form, the former San Francisco mayor tweeted out a message ... More >>

S.F. Pro-Lifers Will Train To Channel Angel Gabriel This Weekend

Susan StefanskiAngel Gabriel​ For many single gals in San Francisco, a dude in an angel costume attempting to dispense advice for her pregnancy would seem like a creative ploy for pocket change. Halo headgear a la the biblical Angel Gabriel are optional for the throngs of local ... More >>

USF Realizes Its Student Insurance Covered Abortions -- and Aborts It

Abortion has commandeered headlines of late with the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade last week and Saturday's pro-life rally -- for which many protesters bused into this pro-choice lair from more conservative California zip codes. But there is one story of anti-abortion zeal here in our own bac ... More >>

St. Luke's Doctor: DIY Abortions by S.F. Latinas Overhyped in New York Times

Progressive San Francisco may be a card-carrying pro-choice city where abortions are readily accessible. But just because a hipster chick can wear a snarky T-shirt that could very well  get her burned at the stake in more conservative zip codes hasn't erased abortion's taboo within the city's ... More >>

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Female Persuasion

Happy-Go-Lucky's optimistic heroine might just convince you to cheer up.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

SF Librarians Bust Johns Hopkins for Removing ‘Abortion’ from Health Database

Milpitas Teacher Who Showed Silent Scream Resigns

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Director Cristian Mungiu Interview

Under the Knife

One very bad day in Ceausescu's Romania

Vagina Warriors May Snarl Traffic

First Proposition, Then Conception

Take the initiative on the sticky question of parental notification

What Part of "Wait Until Marriage" Don't You Understand!

Infiltrator goes to a teen abstinence educators' conference -- and gets laid!

Onward, Christian Lawyers

Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

Shock and Awful

Todd Solondz has been a lot of things, but never preachy or dull. Till now.

Gilman's Treat

Magic Theatre takes a Swing

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December1, 2004

Infiltrator: I was an Abortion Protestor!

Outside a Planned Parenthood clinic with Unborn Jesus and the Grim Reaper

Secrets and Lies

In Mike Leigh's new film, motherhood is a very tricky business

The Grid

Letters

Night + Day

The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

While feminists loudly celebrate the 25th anniversary of legalized abortion, quiet changes in the medical landscape make the procedure less and less available

Savage Love

Savage Love

Unspun

Night+Day

Night+Day

Night+Day

The War Womb (Part II)

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.

The War Womb

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights