How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday
So here it is, Superbowl Sunday, or as I prefer to call it, Focus on the Fetus Sunday. If you support women's right to decide for themselves when and if to continue a pregnancy, ...
Feb 7, 2010 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal
It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology around another Super Bowl ad, t...
Feb 5, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate
David Zirin argues for a Super Bowl chock-full of advocacy ads.
Feb 5, 2010 / Video / The Rachel Maddow Show
Focus on the Fetus Focus on the Fetus
The trouble with protesting the Tim Tebow ad: all most people see is pro-choicers trying to shut up a brave mother and her son.
Feb 4, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali
First let me put my cards on the table. I consider Jemele Hill, sports columnist for ESPN.com to be as incisive and interesting as they come. She has been a frequent and fearless g...
Feb 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Tiller’s Killer Puts Abortion on Trial Tiller’s Killer Puts Abortion on Trial
Judge Warren Wilbert has ruled that Scott Roeder, confessed killer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, couldn't be considered for lesser crimes than first-degree murder. Tod...
Jan 29, 2010 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
More Ways to Give! More Ways to Give!
One very irate reader complains in the bletters section that Palestine is missing from my donations column. MADRE, which partners with sister organizations around the world, supp...
Dec 23, 2009 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
Round Two: The Coming Battle Over Abortion Funding Round Two: The Coming Battle Over Abortion Funding
The prochoice movement stops playing nice in the fight for healthcare reform.
Nov 23, 2009 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
Whose Team Is It, Anyway? Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.
Nov 11, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Anti-Choice Amendments Fail in Senate Finance Committee Anti-Choice Amendments Fail in Senate Finance Committee
Two anti-choice amendments considered by the Senate Finance Committee today were soundly defeated.
Sep 30, 2009 / Feature / Sharon Lerner