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Christian Leader Rejects Reports Of Plans To Urge Obama To Add 'Abortion Reduction' To Democratic Platform
Categorie : AbortionJim Wallis, an evangelical leader and editor of the liberal Christian journal Sojourners, rejected recent reports that indicated he wanted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to add a plank to the Democratic Party platform urging a reduction in the number of abortions performed, Newsweek reports. On Wednesda ...
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Wed Jul 2008
8th Circuit Says S.D. Can Enforce Law Requiring Doctors To Tell Women Abortion Ends Human Life
Categorie : AbortionOn Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled 7-4 that South Dakota can begin enforcing a 2005 law that requires physicians to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," the AP/Google.com reports. ...
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Bush's Decision To Withhold U.S. Funds For UNFPA 'Appalling,' Opinion Piece Says
Categorie : AbortionPresident Bush's announcement on Thursday to withhold all U.S. funding for the seventh consecutive year for United Nations Population Fund is "appalling," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes in the blog "On the Ground. ...
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Federal Appeals Court Asks Ohio Supreme Court To Clarify State Law Limiting Use Of Mifepristone
Categorie : AbortionA panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Monday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to clarify whether a state law restricting the use of the abortion drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486, "explicitly limits" use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy before ruling on whether the ...
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Most Members Of Obama's Catholic Advisory Council Members Support Abortion Rights, Opinion Piece Says
Categorie : AbortionWall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes in an opinion piece that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) "sent a clear message" to Democrats who "gravitated" toward Republican candidates because of their opposition to abortion rights by appointing Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa. ...
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Selection Of Rove For Keynote Speech At National Right To Life's Annual Convention Subject Of Opinion Piece
Categorie : Abortion"Is it politically naive to be surprised" that former Bush administration Chief of Staff Karl Rove will be the keynote speaker at next month's annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee, New York Times reporter Peter Steinfels writes in a Times' Beliefs column. ...
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Ohio Antiabortion Advocates Voice Opposition To Veto Of Stem Cell Funding
Categorie : AbortionAntiabortion advocates responded with "swift and loud" opposition to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's (D) line-item veto of a provision that would have prohibited $100 million in state biomedical funds from being used for research that involves human cloning, the AP/Akron Beacon Journal reports. Stricklan ...
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W. Va. Gubernatorial Candidate Russ Weeks Criticizes Gov. Manchin For Increase In Number Of Abortions
Categorie : AbortionWest Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Russ Weeks, a strong abortion opponent, has "seized upon" a recent report by the state Department of Health and Human Resources showing an increase in the number of abortions in 2006 to criticize antiabortion Gov. Joe Manchin (D), the AP/Charleston Dail ...
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fpa Reacts To Department Of Health's Abortion Statistics 2007, UK
Categorie : AbortionCommenting on the rising numbers of abortions in the under 16 age group Julie Bentley, Chief Executive fpa said: "Now must be the time to make sex and relationships education compulsory and taught in every school in the country. Younger women are making different choices about their lives and choos ...
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Abortion Statistics, England & Wales: 2007
Categorie : AbortionThe following National Statistics were released recently by the Department of Health:Abortion Statistics, England & Wales: 2007Main findings:In 2007, for women resident in England and Wales:the total number of abortions was 198,500, compared with 193,700 in 2006, a rise of 2.5%the age-standardised a ...
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Ariz. Senate Passes Abortion Ban Slightly Different From Bill Gov. Vetoed
Categorie : AbortionThe Arizona Senate on Monday voted 18-6 to pass a bill (SB 1048) that would ban so-called "partial-birth" abortion in the state, Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star reports. Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) vetoed a similar but not identical bill ( ...
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Women Senators Issue Checklist To Discourage Clinton's Female Supporters From Supporting McCain
Categorie : AbortionTen female Democratic senators on Tuesday released a "checklist for change" that aims to discourage female voters who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the presidential primary elections from supporting Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in the general electio ...
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Colo. Right To Life Criticizes State Republican Party After Being Shunned At Convention
Categorie : AbortionColorado Right to Life, which was not allowed to set up a display table at the state Republican Party convention Monday, said the party is ignoring its base and is headed for defeat in November, the Denver Post reports (Hoover, Denver Post 6/18). ...
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Updated Fact Sheet Provides Data On Abortion Utilization, Financing, Access In U.S.
Categorie : Abortion"Abortion in the U.S.: Utilization, Financing and Access," Kaiser Family Foundation: The updated fact sheet provides data on the levels of use of different abortion procedures in the U.S. and reviews federal and state policies that affect availability of and access to services. ...
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Ariz. Legislature Approves Two Abortion-Related Measures
Categorie : AbortionThe Arizona Legislature gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill (HB 2269) that bans nurse practitioners from performing surgical abortions, as well as a measure (SB 1048) that would ban so-called "partial-birth" abortion in the state, ...
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Antiabortion Groups Announce Protest Plans For Democratic National Convention
Categorie : AbortionThe antiabortion groups Christian Defense Coalition and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust on Wednesday announced their plans to protest the Democratic National Convention in Denver from Aug. 25-28, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. ...
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Colo. 'Personhood' Ballot Initiative Goes 'Far Beyond' Outlawing Abortions, Editorial Says
Categorie : AbortionA proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would define a "human egg as a 'person' from the moment of fertilization would go far beyond its intended purpose of outlawing" abortions and should be rejected by state voters in November, a Denver Post editorial says. ...
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Australia Considers Lifting Ban On Foreign Aid For Abortion Services, Government Official Says
Categorie : AbortionThe Australian government is considering lifting a requirement that no group receiving foreign aid can use the funding for abortion counseling, services or training, Bob McMullan, parliamentary secretary for international development assistance, said Wednesday, AFP/Straits Times reports (AFP/Straits ...
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Abortion, Incomplete Pregnancy Not Linked To Breast Cancer Risk
Categorie : AbortionNew research from a large scale study in the US found no evidence of a link between incomplete pregnancy, such as that from induced abortion, and risk of breast cancer, which the researchers said should put an end to the much debated issue. ...
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Gave Women 'Full Rights' As 'First-Class Citizens,' Opinion Piece Says
Categorie : AbortionRoe v. Wade -- which might be in danger of being "swept aside" by an increasingly conservative Supreme Court -- "finally" gave women the "full rights of first-class citizens" and freed their doctors to "treat them as such," retired ob-gyn Waldo Fielding, author of the book Pregnancy: The Best State ...
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