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Liberal Catholic Group Supports Abortion Reform in Mexico
Via the International Herald Tribune (3/26/07):A liberal Latin American Roman Catholic group published an ad defending abortion in national Mexican newspapers Monday, a day after thousands marched through the capital…
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South Carolina Attorney General Questions Constitutionality of Ultrasound Mandate
Seanna Adcox of the Associated Press writes:Requiring doctors to show women seeking an abortion an ultrasound image of their fetus could be declared unconstitutional if it is interpreted as forcing…
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Giuliani Stops Waffling: As President, He Will Not Seek to Make Abortion Illegal (But Will His Appointees?)
The New York Times today reports that Rudy Giuliani, "campaigning in South Carolina, firmly stated that as president he would not seek to make abortion illegal." That seems at odds…
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Reuters: “Mexico City at vanguard with gay rights, abortion”
In Mexico City at vanguard with gay rights, abortion, Gunther Hamm of Reuters writes:A huge, gritty capital with high crime rates and snarling traffic, Mexico City is becoming a vanguard…
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Compassionate Conservatism Strikes Again: Oklahoma Votes to Deny Medicaid Funding for Medically Necessary Abortions
The AP/Joplin Globe reports that Oklahoma's House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to deny Medicaid funding for any abortions other than those needed to save a woman's life. The legislature's…
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Study of Australian Women Shows Link Between Abortion and Partner Violence
ScienceAlert (Australia & New Zealand) reported on Tuesday:[A] study by La Trobe University ... of 9,683 young Australian women aged 22 to 27 found that those reporting either teenage abortions…
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Recent Court Decisions: Asylum and China’s One-Child Policy; “Choose Life” License Plates; Emergency Contraception and Pharmacies
(1) In Qin Wang v. Gonzales (5th Cir. March 14, 2007), the court denied a petition challenging a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA, reversing the…
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Abortion Legislation in Mexico and Mexico City
Mexico's Green Party has introduced a bill in Congress to enact stricter penalties for illegal abortions, an effort to counteract a measure introduced by the Democratic Revolution party that would…
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Studies Show Possibility of Greater Flexibility in Administering Abortion Pill
Amanda Gardner of Healthday (Canada) reports:Women can take the two components of the so-called "abortion pill" simultaneously, rather than 24 hours apart, as is typically done, a new study found.And…
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Who’s Doing the Most to Reduce the Number of Abortions?
While anti-choice advocates hurl shrill accusations from the sidelines, pro-choice groups have been hard at work trying to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy. Fewer unintended pregnancies translates to fewer abortions. …