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Rick Santorum on Face the Nation yesterday, discussing prenatal testing, in particular amniocentesis: "And in fact, prenatal testing, particularly amniocentesis -- I'm not talking about general prenatal care...We're talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies in the womb. And which in many cases -- in fact, most cases...

Tonight, Keith gave a special comment about the ongoing controversy over the Susan B. Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood for politically expedient reasons.  Saying what we are saying, much more eloquently than us, Keith asserts that Karen Handel resigning is not enough.  Have a look:...

Karen Handel, new Susan B. Komen senior vice president of government relations, recruited by former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, and architect of the organization's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood, resigned in disgrace today.  The firestorm of outrage generated by her push to stop funding breast cancer screening for low income women blew up in Handel's face last week, and cost her her job today.  As we've been reporting on over the last week, the...

Ari Fleischer, press secretary to GWB who led the message war that took us into Iraq, has confirmed that he was hired by the Susan B. Comen Foundation to recruit a senior vice president of government relations, the position now filled by anti-choice zealot, Karen Handel.  Fleischer, well known conservative pundit, is believed to have been involved in Komen's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood by reverse engineering a new rule to single out the women's...

UPDATE: A Komen Foundation representative has claimed that it has no relationship with Discount Gun Sales, the online gun dealer, to sell the pink accented handgun.  Spokesperson Andrea Radar, responding to this latest controversy, said, the foundation has "no record of receiving money from this company."  If that's true, that begs the question about why Komen didn't shut down sales of this gun?  Discount Gun Sales has confirmed they have been selling the gun for...

UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

In 1946, my grandmother welcomed a healthy son into this world - with joy.  In 1950, she welcomed a healthy daughter -  my aunt - into this world.  In 1953, my grandmother fell pregnant with my mother.  She cried.  Pregnancy was hard on her; she did not have the money to feed three children.  In 1955, my grandmother fell pregnant again.  In 1957, once again.  All in all, she had five children.  She celebrated the...

The Texas forced sonogram bill is on the way to Governor Rick Perry's desk. The Governor intends to sign the bill.Below is what Republican State Senator Dan Patrick--the Senate sponsor of the bill-- said about the picture you see above---"Speaking at the House press conference this morning on their acceptance of the latest version of the bill. Thanks to Rep Miller (white hat) and House members who worked with us to pass this bill."Senator Patrick...

My state representative, Dan Patrick, has proposed a law requiring women who are planning on having an abortion to have a trans-vaginal ultrasound that clearly shows the fetal heartbeat.  The law would require the doctor to explain what the fetus looks like and turn up the volume to allow the woman to hear the fetal heartbeat.  This law has been declared 'emergency' legislation by Governor Rick Perry - a procedural tool needed to fast track...