Abortion

Five Florida Politicians Who Hate Women: Happy International Women's Day!

Today is National Women's Day! Yes, it's the one day of the year we allow the dames to come out of the kitchen or put the baby down so we can recognize them for all the lady things they do. We love you, ladies. You're real swell. But because it's enough already with asking to be paid the same sala ... More >>

The Ten Weirdest Members of Congress

Amendment 6 Gets Voted Down; Women's Reproductive Privacy Is Protected

The GOPers in the Florida Legislature put Amendment 6 on the ballot this year and were roundly told to eat a crap sandwich by Florida voters. Basically, voting YES on the amendment would have prohibited public funds for abortions, drastically limiting access to safe abortion care as well as limiti ... More >>

Florida and Presidential Election Results Live Blog, UPDATED: Obama Re-Elected

Well. It's here. The 2012 Election is finally, coming to a slow and merciful end. Time to close the polls, tally the votes, and hope that Florida didn't screw things up too badly. Keep it here as we update the winners, and losers, and tell you who's President, who won the Senate race, who won wha ... More >>

South Florida Planned Parenthood Offering Free Cervical Cancer Screenings

Good news, all you women who don't want to die! Several lovely things are happening to help you stay alive this month: If you have insurance, as of today (or soon, depending on your plan), you'll no longer face copays for numerous reproductive health screenings, contraceptives, breastfeeding supplie ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Opens New Palm Beach County Clinic, Aims to Help Florida Teens Get a Clue

Time to start dusting off those protest signs -- Planned Parenthood opened new digs in Wellington on Monday, and they want to bring your kids -- gasp! -- sexual education.Palm Beach County will have a total of three Planned Parenthood facilities after one in Lake Worth closes this summer, according ... More >>

Florida Papers Drop Controversial Doonesbury Abortion Comic Strips; Miami Herald Runs 'Em (UPDATED: Sun-Sentinel Too)

Update, 10:20 a.m.: I messed up. The Sun-Sentinel does carry Doonesbury, but on the page opposite most of its other comics. They've got today's "slut" strip, and I've left a message for comment to see if the rest of them are running too.Update 2, 2:30 p.m.: The Sun-Sentinel's Mary Helen Olejnik ... More >>

Florida House Passes Abortion Bill, Tries to Stuff Its Incorrect Notions Into Doctors' Mouths

​The Florida House passed HB 277 yesterday, moving a bill on to the Senate that not only tells doctors what they need to tell their patients but forces them to tell their patients things that, according to doctors who actually know stuff, just aren't true.Although the bill also includes a mandator ... More >>

Florida House Considering New Limits on Abortions

One of two abortion bills under consideration in the Florida House of Representatives seeks to significantly reduce the amount of time women have to request an abortion, and if it doesn't contradict a Florida Supreme Court ruling, it certainly sidesteps it.HB 839, which passed the Civil Justice ... More >>

Allen West History Revision: Attributes Ronald Reagan Abortion Quote to Abraham Lincoln

​If you didn't know about Abraham Lincoln's strong anti-abortion policies while he was in the White House, it's probably because they didn't exist.Rep. Allen West, however -- the former history teacher -- decided to deal an anti-abortion quote to the annual March for Life at the National Mall in W ... More >>

Florida Abortion-Ban Bill: "Personal Liberty Is Not a License to Kill"

​Once again, the "Florida for Life Act" has been submitted in the Florida Legislature. The bill would ban abortions not related to medical emergencies and would make it a first-degree felony to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion.Rep. Charles Van Zant has filed the bill on the Hous ... More >>

Florida "Personhood" Referendum Petition Has Fewer Signatures Than Medical Marijuana

​Despite the dismal number of signatures collected to put a medical marijuana referendum on Florida ballots next year, the chance that Floridians will be voting on a "personhood" amendment -- like the one that failed in Mississippi last night -- is even lower.The leader of the Florida movement ... More >>

Infinite Abyss Takes a Safe Approach to "Mitzi's Abortion"

Abortion Is in the Title

Rick Scott Throws an Anti-Abortion Party at the Governor's Mansion

Gov. Rick Scott: Party boy.​Add this to the list of awkward party themes: anti-abortion bills.Apparently it wasn't a costume party, but Gov. Rick Scott held a celebration at the governor's mansion this weekend in honor of the four anti-abortion bills he signed into law.Partygoers celebrated the ne ... More >>

"Choose Life" License Plate Funds Jacked From Counties in Favor of Anti-Abortion Group

Choose to give your money to make an extremely uncomfortable advertising campaign.​Only in Florida -- where the government prefers to privatize anti-abortion license plates.Florida's "Choose Life" license plates, created by Ocala-based Choose Life Inc., started popping up on bumpers since the legi ... More >>

Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 3)

​New Times: You've shown a strong interest in Israel and Israeli politics. My understanding is that you do not favor the two-state solution. Allen West: You mean creation of a Palestinian state? When has there ever been a Palestinian state? Well, if you don't favor the two-state solution, do you ... More >>

Anti-Abortion Measure a Waste of Paper

​Do you know what your Senate was doing yesterday?Among other things, it passed HB 1127. This is an anti-abortion measure, I suppose, but it's so profoundly useless that it's hard to imagine it seriously offending even Florida's baby-hatingest abortionists. Here's the summary.

Florida House: No Public Money For Abortions. Farewell, Low Crime Rate!

​Today, two stories appeared in Floridian media outlets that didn't seem to have much to do with each other, but did.The first: "Florida's Crime Rate The Lowest In 40 Years." The title is a bit misleading -- Florida didn't begin tracking crime rates until 40 years ago, so our historic streak of la ... More >>

Pro-Life, Anti-Honesty: Mandatory Sonograms For Women Seeking Abortions

Ten weeks. Not a person.​As I write this, Floridian women in the second and third trimesters of a pregnancy must submit to a sonogram before procuring an abortion. In Tallahassee on April 20th, Rep. Liz Porter, of Lake City, stumped for a bill that would extend the requirement to women in the firs ... More >>

Reader Rails Against "Virtual Black Baby Genocide"

West is offended by Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods.​The federal budget deal congressional leaders inked late Friday avoided funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, but a future Senate floor vote on the issue still looms. The Juice has given you U.S. Rep. Allen West's views on the or ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Responds to Allen West

West doesn't want the clinics in black neighborhoods.​At a town hall meeting this week, U.S. Rep. Allen West said he found it "offensive" that many Planned Parenthood programs are located in black neighborhoods.Judith Selzer, vice president of public policy for South Florida's chapter of Planned P ... More >>

Allen West "Offended" by Planned Parenthood in Black Neighborhoods

Allen West doesn't want women to get prenatal vitamins, either.​U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cuttin ... More >>

Abortion Under Attack In Florida's Legislature

​With all the rhetoric about jobs and a balanced budget, you may not realize the pile of anti-abortion legislation clogging the state government's agenda. But as abortion battles sweep across the country, Florida fights from the front line with 18 abortion bills pending in the state legislature. L ... More >>

The "I Was Raped Too!" Election Scandal

Facebook.comBenacquisto's new ad comes days before the election.​Just in time for Halloween, the campaign for a Palm Beach County state Senate seat has reached a gruesome low.The contest in District 27 is between Lizbeth Benacquisto (R-Wellington) and Kevin Rader (D-Delray Beach). And this week, B ... More >>

Freaks and Movie Geeks

All Signs Point to Crist Veto of Pro-Life Bill

A bill that would require women in Florida to pay for an ultrasound before getting an abortion will tell us much about whether Charlie Crist the Republican has had major philosophical shifts since he became Charlie Crist the independent.If he vetoes it, Marco Rubio will brand Crist a hypocrite and s ... More >>

Church, Planned Parenthood Make Uneasy Neighbors

Lisa RabStrange bedfellows.​For three years, Pastor Mark Jones of the New Life Pentecostal Church in Greenacres has tolerated an unconventional neighbor. While his flock prays, employees on the other side of the duplex are giving HIV tests and passing out condoms and the morning-after pill.Planned ... More >>

Marco Rubio's Attack on Charlie Crist's Supreme Court Pick a Solid Half Truth

Much of the analysis in the media about yesterday's Marco Rubio-Charlie Crist debate on Fox News Sunday was spent on Rubio's "slush fund," as the governor put it. But among the other jabs thrown by both sides: that Crist has appointed liberal judges to the Florida Supreme Court.The attack comes at 1 ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Opens Two New Clinics in Broward to Meet Growing Demand

Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

New Florida House Speaker: How Conservative Is He?

How conservative is Larry Cretul, the new speaker of the Florida House? So conservative that he once coerced an abortion provider into committing a crime. It all started back in 1997, when Cretul was a commissioner in Marion County. An abortion doctor, Dr. James Scott Pendergraft, was threatening to ... More >>

Ahoy, Yacht Lovers

The Boat Hustle Is Alive and Well

DeGroot's Open Letter To Citizen Zell

Florida's "Bastard Surge"

Notes from the Weekend

Well Hung

To bead or not to bead, that is the question.

The Sun-Sentinel's Murtha Mess

Free Condoms and Lube!

Born to Choose

Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

Shock and Awful

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

Adios, Abortionist

Joyce Tarnow is history

Bombs for Babies

Stephen Jordi planned to blow up abortion clinics. Does that make him a terrorist?

United States of Jesus

The folks who are "reclaiming America for Christ" are pushing an agenda for a Taliban-like state where Scripture is law

The Odd Couple

A minister and a rabbi team up to sue Palm Beach County on behalf of the homeless

Their Own Osamas

Abortion clinics and counseling centers faced terrorism long before everyone else

Best Political Activist

Vivian Burch

Best Place To Poll God

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

The Ultimate Orphan

The Cider House Rules

Undercurrents

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999