Planned Parenthood

COMMENTARY: I’ve had an abortion, but will my daughter be able to?

Kit-Bacon Gressitt – SDGLN Contributor
January 21st, 2013

It’s Tuesday in Highlands, N.J., and I’m taking Frank the contractor to lunch. He’s been such a great guy. He will rebuild my mother’s little house on the Jersey shore that was awash in the waters of Hurricane Sandy last October. Newly gutted, the house reveals the faded layers of lives that once made the place a home, one pattern atop the last, atop the last, atop the last.

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COMMENTARY: The myth of the tolerant Republican

Barb Hamp Weicksel - SDGLN Contributor
October 16th, 2012

So, the question I was asked is this: “Barb, do you really think I’m a bad person because I’m a Republican?” That question was followed by this: “You know I support gay rights; how can you say I don’t based on the fact that I’m voting for Mitt Romney? I’m not like Michele Bachmann or Rush Limbaugh and don’t you say I am.”

UPDATED: ACTION ALERT: Tell Susan G. Komen not to throw Planned Parenthood under the bus

Becky Bond - Political Director, CREDO Action
February 3rd, 2012

Editor's Note: As of Friday, February 3, 2012, the Susan G. Komen foundation has announced a reversal on the decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Social media played a significant role in the exertion of pressure on the severely tarnished foundation, which only yesterday offered conflicting reasons for ending the funding in the first place. This action alert was submitted to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News on Thurs., Feb. 2 for the action of our readers.

Anti-abortion group protests Planned Parenthood event outside of Eden nightclub

Ben Cartwright - SDGLN Staff Writer
July 29th, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- As hundreds of people celebrated inside Eden nightclub Thursday evening at a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, a handful of protesters lined the street corner outside staging an anti-abortion protest.