Abortion

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2012-05-11 09:08:00

ON THE SITE... Maryland abortion protest target takes fight to protesters: The owner of a Germantown office rented to a doctor who performs abortions�has responded to protesters with an offensive of his own, gathering volunteers to call abortion...

Turnabout is fair play for aggressive abortion protesters

2012-05-14 12:00:00

I love the idea of personally taking the fight over abortion directly to the overly aggressive anti-abortion protesters by publishing their home phone numbers ("Abortion fight widens," May 11). But in my opinion, this tactic should be taken even farther....

Maryland abortion protests focus on Germantown clinic

2012-05-11 10:10:00

The Germantown clinic featured in today’s story, “Maryland abortion protest target takes fight to protesters,” has been a focal point of the abortion debate over the past few years. Dr. LeRoy Carhartarrived there in late 2010. That...

Maryland abortion protest target takes fight to protesters

2012-05-11 10:18:00

The fliers first showed up in March, dropped on doorsteps of the big homes in Todd Stave's quiet cul-de-sac. They compared him to a Nazi. Two months later and 50 miles away, new anti-abortion leaflets appeared in another peaceful suburban subdivision,...

Abortion protesters deserve a taste of their own medicine

2012-05-14 06:00:00

Thank you for writing the article shining a light on anti-choice people who harass and humiliate people and their families who are not breaking any laws ("Abortion fight widens," May 11). To think that these people would go to a man's middle-school aged...

Romney flip-flops, and so does Obama; what's wrong with that?

2012-05-03 11:35:00

What's that you say? You don't hear much about President Barack Obama's flip-flopping? How about: 1) the Obama reversal regarding child farm-labor regulations; 2) the president's (to quote The New York Times) "revers[ing] his two-year-old order halting...

Obamacare and birth control: Women's health isn't the issue

2012-04-08 05:00:00

My 16-year career in two legislatures (eight in the Maryland General Assembly and eight in Congress) included many debates on the most divisive issues of our time: Capital punishment, affirmative action, war and peace, impeachment, entitlement reform...

Abortion protesters are entitled to their opinion

2012-04-09 05:15:00

I find Sy Steinberg's letter to the editor ("Protesters rewarded for disruptive behavior," March 29) about the settlement given abortion protesters to be very disturbing. Mr. Steinberg writes that "the protesters are inciting the public, who are...

Anti-abortion activists to discuss settlement in 2008 arrests

2012-04-15 18:50:00

Anti-abortion advocates will gather at 10 a.m. Monday outside the Maryland State Police Headquarters in Pikesville to publicly discuss a $385,000 settlement involving both parties. The activists and their attorneys will discuss details of the case, which...

Pro-life group talks about settlement with state police

2012-04-17 09:52:00

- Members of the pro-life group Defend Life proclaimed their victory Monday against Maryland State Police and vowed to move on from the 2008 arrests of 18 of their members for holding graphic abortion images as they marched and protested along a busy...

Nearly 3,600 participate in first Komen race in Ocean City

2012-04-22 13:53:00

Nearly 3,600 people ran or walked in the rainy and slippery inaugural Susan G. Komen breast cancer race in Ocean City Sunday, despite early concerns that a controversy involving Planned Parenthood could hurt attendance. Breast cancer survivors, their...

The crisis in public morality

2012-03-21 00:00:00

Republicans have morality upside down. They're condemning gay marriage, abortion, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state. But the moral crisis in America isn't a breakdown in private morality. It's a breakdown in public...

Todd Stave, is the landlord of a building that houses as abortion clinic in Germantown, has been targeted by anti-abortion activists. Stave is lecturing at Howard Community College about an organization he founded in an American History class.

2012-05-08 00:00:00

An anti-abortion demonstrator passes the U.S. Capitol as he takes part in the "March for Life" in Washington.

2012-04-21 00:00:00

Known for his ever-so tactful tweets, West came under fire again after he tweeted about women who have abortions. "An abortion can cost a ballin' n up to 50gs maybe a 100. Gold diggin' b be getting pregnant on purpose. #STRAPUP my n Rush Limbaugh called, he wants his platform back.

2012-04-08 00:00:00