by Robin Marty Anti-choice activists always say “punish the doctor, not the mother.” For Florida Rep. Charles Van Zant, that punishment for the physician would be life in prison. Van Zant has proposed an all out abortion ban that would make the procedure entirely illegal, unless certain requirements were met ahead of time. According to […]

via CNN Rick Santorum called President Barack Obama’s education goals an agenda of “hubris” on Saturday, saying he is “outraged” that the president thinks “every child in America should go to college.” “The hubris of this president to think that he knows what’s best for you […] This is the kind of snobbery that we […]

via BBC News The FBI has updated its definition of rape for the first time in 83 years, to include men and those who do not physically resist as victims. The new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws. […]

via CNN The linguists have spoken and they have decided — “Occupy” is 2011’s word of the year. Members of the American Dialect Society came out in record numbers to vote Friday night at the organization’s annual conference, held this year in Portland, Oregon. “Occupy” won a runoff vote by a whopping majority, earning more […]

via CNN Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attend events Sunday in Arizona to mark the anniversary of a shooting rampage that left six people dead and the congresswoman with a gunshot wound to the head. Giffords was the target of the January 8, 2011, mass shooting in the parking lot of a Tucson supermarket during a […]