Archive for the ‘Abortion’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Newark Star-Ledger on Friday examined the views on abortion of the three Republican candidates for an open New Jersey U.S. Senate seat. According to the Star-Ledger, former U.S. Rep. Dick Zimmer, state Sen. Joseph Pennacchio and Murray Sabrin, a professor at Ramapo College who ran for governor as a ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Arizona Board of Nursing's Advance Practice Committee has voted unanimously to recommend that nurse practitioners be allowed to perform first-trimester abortions in the state, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The full nursing board is scheduled to vote on the recommendation on Wednesday. According to the Star, the recommendation "will ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Research published in today's (Friday 9 May 2008) BMJ1 concludes that over a recent twelve2 year period there was no significant improvement in the survival of babies born before 24 weeks gestation. Given this new data, the BMA is calling on MPs to vote against any attempt to reduce the ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
British Member of Parliament Nadine Dorries has introduced an amendment to a human embryonic stem cell research bill that would reduce the time during which women can legally receive an abortion in the United Kingdom from 24 weeks' gestation to 20 weeks' gestation, BBC News reports. According to BBC News, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) failed to mention Roe v. Wade in a speech Tuesday outlining his judicial philosophy at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., the Miami Herald reports. The speech led some abortion-rights advocates to criticize the senator for his lack of "straight talk." McCain's campaign also announced its ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In response to results of a pilot published by the Department of Health looking at how to improve access to early medical abortion Julie Bentley, Chief Executive, fpa said: "Early medical abortion is a very safe and effective method and we welcome the results of this pilot. It demonstrates that ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Department of Health published the results of a pilot study into early medical abortions carried out in non-hospital settings, looking at how to improve access. The study shows that large community contraceptive centres, cottage hospitals or polyclinic type settings ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Poland's Roman Catholic bishops on Friday released a statement expressing "firm opposition" to an April Council of Europe resolution that appealed to all 47 Council member countries to legalize abortion despite opposition from Poland and other members, Agence France-Presse reports. The Council in its April resolution called for all member ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A joint resolution (SJR 127) that would have amended Tennessee's Constitution to say that it does not protect the right to abortion or require funding of abortion did not receive the two-thirds majority required in the state House, the Tennessean reports. The House voted 55-40 in favor of the resolution ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
State Rep. Don Cazayoux (D), who opposes abortion rights, on Saturday won a special election for a Louisiana U.S. House seat that has been held by Republicans for 33 years, the Washington Post reports (Kane, Washington Post, 5/4). Cazayoux defeated Woody Jenkins -- a newspaper publisher and former state legislator ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Kansas Senate on Wednesday failed to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' (D) veto of a bill (House Substitute for SB 389) that included a number of antiabortion-related provisions, the Wichita Eagle reports (Koranda, Wichita Eagle, 5/1). According to the Kansas City Star, the Senate voted 25-14 -- two votes short of ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The following highlights recent news of state actions on antiabortion legislation. Alaska: The House on Saturday voted 23-15 to approve a measure (HB 364) that would require minors seeking abortions to obtain parental consent before undergoing the procedure, the AP/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. Under the measure, a minor could petition ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a group of students on Monday at the Roger Williams University Law School that there is nothing in the Constitution guaranteeing abortion rights and that the issue is best left to legislatures rather than the Supreme Court, the AP/Boston Globe reports. "You want ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Some public health experts in South Korea are advocating for changes to the country's abortion law but have been facing opposition from antiabortion groups and the South Korean government, Reuters reports. Abortions have been banned in the country since 1953 except to save the life of the woman, in cases ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Thursday announced that Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast will buy two of five clinics that were previously operated by Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties, the Miami Herald reports (Samuels, Miami Herald, 4/4). PPFA suspended ...
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