Category: Abortion

The number of abortions in Wisconsin declined for the fourth year in a row in 2007, marking the lowest recorded number since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, according to a report by the state Department of Health and Family Services, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Monday officially ended its relationship with an affiliate once known as Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties after a March review found many problems, including harassment complaints, plagiarism and possible mismanagement of nearly $450,000, the

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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.

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Conservative leaders on Thursday met with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in Cincinnati to urge him to talk more about social issues to encourage conservatives to vote for him in November’s general election, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) on Friday vetoed a bill (SB 1048) that would have banned so-called “partial-birth” abortion in the state, the AP/Tucson Citizen reports. Napolitano’s veto letter says that there is already a federal law (

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On 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. However, the decision sends the case […]

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

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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.

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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).

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A 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 law is constitutional, […]