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.
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Anti-abortion-rights group Operation Rescue has released its most recent undercover look at the American abortion industry, using excerpted audio recordings to show “millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year.”
A recent study of sexually-active women in California finds that socioeconomic status does not fully explain why certain groups of women in the Golden State use more effective birth-control methods than others, according to a report published in the…
Arizona wrapped its 50th legislative session this week, with both Republican-controlled chambers passing several pieces of legislation that will likely impact women seeking abortions in the coming year. All abortion-related bills that passed have been signed by Gov. Jan Brewer.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
A new measure, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Tuesday, allows the biological father of a fetus — or the mother’s parents, if the mother is underage — to press charges against the person who administers the procedure if it was sought because of the fetus’ race or sex.
During the campaign season for the 2010 midterm elections, anti-abortion groups are attacking vulnerable Democrats’ support of the comprehensive health care reform bill — arguing the new law will funnel taxpayers’ money into coverage for abortions, even though legal scholars, health care analysts and even some Republican politicians say the law does no such thing.
Planned Parenthood is organizing a rally of abortion rights supporters in Albuquerque this Friday. The rally comes after a controversial anti-abortion rights group, Operation Rescue, moved into Albuquerque and ramped up protests at local clinics.
After Wichita abortion doctor George…
New Mexico apparently played a role in the Obama administration’s recent decision to ban most abortion procedures covered under a new federal health care program that began this month.
On July 1, New Mexico, like most other states, launched…
Ella, a new emergency contraceptive that’s more effective than the existing drug, Plan B, was endorsed today by a Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel. That move clears the way for approval by the agency, which, as The New…
A new emergency contraceptive under review by the Food and Drug Administration, called Ella, is safe and effective, according to a staff report released Thursday. That determination bodes well for approval of the drug, which is described as twice…
The controversial anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has announced it is sending two “missionaries” to set up a satellite office in Albuquerque. One of them, Henry “Bud” Shaver, was arrested in 2007 after entering Dr. George Tiller’s church and…
Everybody wants to know what Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, thinks about abortion. And right now at least, everybody is pretty disappointed. That’s because Kagan, who has never served as a judge (despite being nominated by President…
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
Less than a year after the murder of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, an Albuquerque doctor has decided to accept patients for late-term abortions.
Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella, both of whom worked with Dr. Tiller,…
The U.S. Senate today voted to table an anti-abortion amendment introduced by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. The amendment would have put severe restrictions on abortion funding in the health care reform bill that is currently making its way through…
In an apparent attempt to pacify progressives, the Senate is looking into the possibility of lowering the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55, the Huffington Post is reporting.
Here’s an interesting tidbit brought to our attention by our Washington bureau. Adam Kokesh, who is running for Congress as a Republican in the deeply Democratic 3rd Congressional district that includes Santa Fe and Taos, has posted on…
“If the Stupak amendment is in there, I would definitely define it as one of most important life votes in more than a decade,” said Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.
The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice today expressed outrage that an amendment included in health care legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday could mean the loss of abortion coverage for millions of…
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has led the charge on bad actors in the investment world, including one or two here in New Mexico, now is going after Intel Corp, which has a big presence in the…
