Perhaps this charge has been around forever and I’m only now noticing it a lot lately: "Increasingly, anti-choicers are dropping the pretense that they’re motivated by ‘life’ and admitting…" http://t.co/6p2QcorwNQ — Rewire News Group (@RewireNewsGroup) February 1, 2014 A lame Shreveport Times editorial yesterday, which appears to have been written by a 22-year-old new college grad […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pennsylvania has temporarily halted surgical abortions until they can comply with the state regulations for abortion clinics.
• Three pro-life student groups have been recognized at universities in Australia. For some oh-so-tolerant pro-choicers, this could be dangerous:
  

  The National Union of Students opposes the group, and president Donherra Walmsley said she would be watching closely to see if the movement continued to expand.

  “Whether it will spread outside NSW is the next big question for us,” Ms Walmsley said.

  “Students should be allowed freedom of expression, but our concern is, despite what they’ve said, these clubs do appear to be promoting an explicitly pro-life agenda.

  Imagine that, a pro-life group promoting a pro-life agenda. The horror!

It’s a strategy question.

Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard has written a great piece, “The Party of Abortion,” beginning with:

The Democratic party underwent an ideological evolution in Charlotte last week. They are no longer a pro-choice party. They’re the party of abortion.

As if to prove his point, the pro-abortion group Feministing posted this tweet last night…

which linked to this gif (featuring drag queen RuPaul, btw)….