It’s been a busy few weeks for the Vatican. First, it staked out a new frontier of creepiness by picking on a nine-year old for having an abortion after being raped and impregnated by her step-father. The Vatican supported the excommunication of her doctors and mother by her local bishop….

This week, the California Orange County Board of Supervisors moved to suspend it’s contract with Planned Parenthood, totaling $300,000 dollars, because the organization offers comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion. The contract was for Planned Parenthood to provide education to thousands of teenagers on contraception, abstinence and STDs. The total…

The public outrage that erupted after the release of the Bush administration’s “refuse to care” regulation was thunderous. Opponents of contraception championed the regulation which would allow healthcare workers to deny patients care to any health care service the worker objected to, including contraception, regardless of patient need. Yesterday, in…