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.
Abortion has become a major issue dividing Democratic leadership from Republicans and conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats as they debate health care reform, and now one Albuquerque group is pushing back. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice…
Pro-choice advocates in Washington are urging Congress and President Obama to repeal restrictions that prevent federal money from being used to provide abortions for poor women, a quarter of whom are forced to carry their pregnancies to term because they can’t afford an abortion.
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…
Whether Mariano Leyba Jr. is convicted of two murders or three might not affect his sentence, but the idea that a baby who is fully developed and clearly viable is, legally, a non-entity is disturbing.
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.
Since the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, a person in the United States is of course free to refuse medical treatment and die of a curable disease if he or she so chooses. But when parents make such a choice on behalf of a minor child the issue is far less clear-cut.
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.
Advocates for reproductive freedom say they plan to push again this year for passage of a state Freedom of Choice Act that would repeal an old abortion ban and cement decades worth of laws protecting access to contraception and abortion.
When Bill Richardson leaves the New Mexico governor’s mansion to become U.S. secretary of commerce, his Democratic lieutenant governor, Diane Denish, will take over where he left off. Although the two certainly have different governing styles, their policy…
As NMI noted earlier this week (and earlier this year), the Bush administration is considering enacting a last-minute rule that could make it much more difficult for women to get information about and access to birth control, abortion…
The Bush administration has been trying for months to enact a rule that could severely limit access to birth control, emergency contraception and other reproductive health services. Now, despite fierce protests from doctors, pharmacy groups, women’s rights groups and…
In her series of interviews with Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin, CBS News anchor Katie Couric pressed both vice presidential candidates for their views on abortion and Roe v. Wade. (He’s pro-choice; she pro-life.) Couric also asked Palin about whether or not she supports contraception and the morning-after pill. But Palin’s answers in the Couric interview, and her past positions on these issues, have been contradictory.
In 2006, when the South Dakota legislature passed a bill outlawing nearly all abortions, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds said at the time that he hoped the restrictive law would invite legal challenges and eventually overturn Roe v.…
