I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The brutal murder of a pregnant Santa Fe teenager has reopened a debate over how to properly punish such crimes. It has also prompted supporters of a “fetal homicide” bill to say they plan to introduce it again in the next session of the New Mexico Legislature.
The family of slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller announced Tuesday that his Kansas clinic will close permanently. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue expressed regret that the closure was the result of violence, but beyond there…
The man accused of murdering Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was charged today with one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault but he will not face the death penalty.
Roeder is not expected…
A story posted on Salon.com yesterday argues that FoxNews host Bill O’Reilly is responsible for pushing an image of a Kansas abortion provider that was so monstrous and exaggerated that it fanned the flames of violent anger among the…
“Dr. Tiller was a person of conscience and faith,” writes Joan Lamunyon Sanford of the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, in reaction to the murder of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot Sunday in the foyer of his church…
A recent Gallup poll reveals that most Americans now describe themselves as “pro-life,” for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995. But numbers from the same poll show 76 percent of Americans still believe abortion should be legal in all or some cases — a number that remains unchanged from 1975.
There is the possibility that supporters could convince Congress to change President Obama’s proposed budget to include some funding directly for abstinence-only programs. But New Mexico’s senators and representatives are not likely to champion those efforts.
President Obama’s 2010 budget proposes an end to the era of abstinence-only sex ed in America. If adopted by Congress, his plan would eliminate nearly all federal funding for abstinence-only, and replace it with a $110 million teen pregnancy prevention initiative using “evidence-based” programming.
President Obama’s 2010 budget would end nearly all federal funding for abstinence-only sex-ed, and launch a new teen pregnancy prevention initiative using “evidence-based” programs. The full details of the budget were released today and teen pregnancy groups quickly siezed…
The Washington, D.C. City Council voted this morning to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere. The Washington City Paper provided live updates from the meeting where former mayor and current councilor Marion Barry spoke out against the resolution, only to…
The State of New Mexico will soon be offering retirement health benefits to domestic partners of state employees, both straight and gay. The move is part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union…
The federal Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would allow 17-year-olds to buy emergency contraception pills (called Plan B) over the counter.
President Obama has moved to rescind a Bush administration “midnight regulation” that would make it much more difficult for women to get information about and access to birth control, abortion and sterilization. As NMI reported, the rule had been opposed…
The Obama administration is now accepting public comments on a plan to ditch a Bush administration rule (pdf) that would have severely limited access to women’s reproductive health services.
In San Francisco today, the California Supreme Court will consider arguments for overturning Proposition 8, the ballot initiative passed last year redefining marriage as between one man and one woman.
It was the state Supreme Court that had previously declared…
Domestic partnership legislation failed in the Senate today, by a vote of 17 to 25. Click below to read the (very, very long) transcript of our live blog, and to watch a video of the proceedings.
Publicly funded family planning services save $4 for every dollar spent, says a report released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute.
Public funds also prevent nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and they prevent more than 800,000 abortions every year.
The vote may come in the State Senate as early as Monday, and supporters and opponents alike say that while they’re hopeful they’ll emerge victorious, nothing is certain.
After a dramatic set of votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday afternoon, domestic partnership legislation moved toward consideration by the full Senate. And state Sen. Bernadette Sanchez, who only two weeks ago said she didn’t support the legislation, cast the critical vote allowing the bill to proceed.
