First NPR/PBS, then AmeriCorps, now Planned Parenthood? On Friday, the House moved forward with plans to strip funding for Planned Parenthood, a controversial yet critical agency that provides birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care. This happened one day after Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) moved the chamber to powerful silence after describing her own abortion. more ›

Making its return to San Francisco, Planned Parenthood just opened a new clinic at 1650 Valencia Street, reports The Chronicle. They also took control of another part-time clinic. more ›

We mentioned this briefly in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but a whopping seven Bay Area Planned Parenthoods will lose their name. Citing fiscal and administrative problems, SFGate reports that, while the clinics will lose their affiliation on September 3, "Interim CEO Therese Wilson said the seven clinics will continue to provide reproductive health services to patients in Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Sonoma counties." more ›

The body of a dead lady was found outside an abortion clinic in San Jose this morning. According to reports, the woman was neither homeless nor killed at the site. Officers also made it a point of declaring that "the woman appeared not to have been killed, then dumped at the building." (Wait, what?) Maybe this is the latest form of nutty anti-abortion protest: Leave your body at the doorsteps of Planned Parenthood as a final act of lunacy? Strange. Anyway, a police officer on the scene went on to say that "Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with this .. It's just a pure coincidence." more ›

Everyone else is getting their swerve on (dang, that light IS bright!) so we're jumping on the bandwagon. Here's where to go for the steamy haps tonight: more ›

We were browsing the Planned Parenthood Golden Gate website for information about the infamous HPV vaccine. (Yes, we’re too old to even get it. Yes, we’re confused about the whole vaccine and why it’s so expensive. And yes, we’re kind of sad that efforts to offer a vaccine in schools will most likely not happen). more ›

"Individuals who enter homosexual unions cannot reasonably be expected to provide children with sound moral teaching," Father Gerald Coleman, rector of St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, is quoted as writing in this month's issue of "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Catholic Newsletter." Okay, we admit that some gays are not always responsible, and a meth-addled seeker of unsafe sex might be less suited for parenthood than, say, a dedicated spiritual leader. But it's getting so hard to tell those two apart these days, isn't it? more ›

How on Earth has San Francisco been getting by all this time without an Archibishop? Back in May, our old Arch-b got transferred to Rome, and we've been without a replacement since. But good news! Utah's giving us Bishop George Niederauer -- in fact, he's being installed today -- and despite being appointed by the Pope, the guy's not all that hostile to the gays. In fact, he seems downright friendly. Verrrrrry friendly. And he's utterly failed to fall into line with the Church's latest talking point, which is that abuse of children by priests is the fault of homosexuals, not pedophiles. But before we get to that, let's have some news about Planned Parenthood. more ›

In other political-action news, we'd like to point up DCist's special inauguration coverage. They have a great photospread from the protests and festivities on the day of the inauguration, and also have a mashup-tastic piece on the security surrounding the event by David Enders. more ›

In light of that big hullabaloo that's going down in D.C. tomorrow, something SFist is trying as hard as possible not to think about (we prefer the hand over the ears and shouting "la-la-la" as loud as possible method), we have something that just might take your minds off of it -- according to news reports in England, Britney has been shopping at maternity stores and telling all the people there that she's nine months weeks pregnant. more ›

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Everyone out here talks so contentedly about how we live in our little idyllic utopian blue-state liberal/progressive/left-wing bubble -- so it comes as that much more of a shock to learn that a pro-choice doctor who works for Planned Parenthood in Contra Costa county has been targeted by Operation Rescue. more ›