by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

November 26, 2012 - 8:40 pm

With three days left to bring the bill up, the senate appears content to let it die.

by Andy Kopsa

June 4, 2012 - 5:55 pm

While researching PRENDA, RH Reality Check reached out to Lila Rose’s PR representative with some questions about her video and the pending legislation. And we got… crickets.

by Andy Kopsa

June 4, 2012 - 5:01 pm

A Republican Congressman comes out and admits that criminalizing women for obtaining an abortion would be just fine with him.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

June 4, 2012 - 4:53 pm

Not that anyone is surprised, but yes, Franks just wants to provoke a court challenge.

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

June 3, 2012 - 6:55 pm

PRENDA was the legislative equivalent of a troll writing, “Have you considered that HALF of fetuses aborted are FEMALE?”, before high-fiving himself for finally achieving the rhetorical chops necessary to flunk high school composition.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

May 31, 2012 - 1:57 pm

The so-called Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), today failed to get the two-thirds vote it would have needed to pass under House rules for passing legislation under suspension. The vote was 246-168.

by Andy Kopsa

May 31, 2012 - 12:10 pm

The co-launch of the new Lila Rose “exposé” on “gendercide” at Planned Parenthood and the vote on the so-called Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act came forth in perfect harmony – one buoying and leveraging the other. PRENDA was scheduled for a vote yesterday, however was rolled over to today.

by Sneha Barot

May 31, 2012 - 8:27 am

An entrenched social preference for sons should be addressed by countering social and cultural bias against women, not by eroding their health and rights.

by Anat Shenker-Osorio

and Sujatha Jesudason, CoreAlign Initiative - UC San Fransisco

May 30, 2012 - 7:52 am

Anti-choicers are now riding a wave of sex selection politics, finding new reasons to limit access to abortion in their quest control women’s autonomy, specifically to curtail reproductive decision-making for women of color. But these policies only make matters worse.

by Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

May 29, 2012 - 7:07 am

The sponsors of H.R. 3541are using the guise of “ending discrimination against female babies,” which sounds like a good cause, in order to ban abortion for the very people it pretends to protect: Asian American women. We recognize that this is simply a particularly demeaning way for anti-choice legislators to limit abortion access.