Archive for the ‘Abortion’ Category
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined how "changing social values and economic realities, as well as demographic shifts" have contributed to an apparent increase in the number of abortions in the Middle East. According to the Times, abortion is illegal in much of the Middle East. Most interpretations of ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Jim 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 Wednesday, an ABC News blog ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
On Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled 7-4 that South Dakota can begin enforcing a 2007 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. However, ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
President 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." He adds that Bush's decision is "American policy-making at its most inane" (Kristof, New York ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
A proposed antiabortion amendment to the Montana Constitution that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a "person" failed to gather enough signatures to be placed on the November ballot, the Montana'sNewsStation.com reports (Montana'sNewsStation.com, 6/25). The proposed amendment would have defined a person as "a human being at all ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Wall 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.) as the head of his National Catholic ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
"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. NRLC "describes itself as nonpartisan," ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
West 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 2007 to criticize antiabortion Gov. Joe Manchin (D), the AP/Charleston Daily Mail reports. According to ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Colorado 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). State GOP chair Dick Wadhams said he ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
"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. The fact sheet also provides information on ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The 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, Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star, reports. According to Capitol Media Services/Daily Star, one ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The 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.The groups plan to bring as many as 1,000 protesters to Denver and maintain a presence outside ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The 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 2007, a rise of 2.5%the age-standardised abortion rate was 18.6 per 1,000 resident women ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Commenting 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 ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The 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 (HB 2769) in April. Sen. Linda Gray (R) said state lawmakers ...
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