Newsbusters
Another guest panelist, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, declared I'm a Planned Parenthood Democrat on the issue of choice, but when Gingrich challenged him to defend the Democratic Party platform support for taxpayer funding of late-term and...
Disinfo.com
Earp writes at Oxford's Practical Ethics blog: Should abortions be allowed in the case of rape?...His reasoning is as follows : From what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy resulting from rape is] really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female...
National Public Radio
Akin was polling ahead of the incumbent, Democrat Claire McCaskill, in the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, but his support fractured into several distinct camps after his comment that women's bodies can block pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." (...
Los Angeles Times
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich broke with Mitt Romney and other Republican leaders Sunday by defending the right of Rep. Todd Akin to stay in the Missouri Senate race despite his controversial remarks on rape and pregnancy. I just think people...
The Hill
He then refused to leave his race against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) over objections from Republican leaders, who fear he could cost them a chance to take back the Senate. The ensuing firestorm prompted Rove to say, last week, that if Akin is "...