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Spanish Senate Approves Bill To Lift Some Abortion Restrictions
Categorie : AbortionThe Spanish Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would ease Spain's strict restrictions on legal abortion and instead allow the procedure up to 14 weeks' gestation without restrictions and up to 22 weeks' gestation in limited cases, the AP/Yahoo News reports... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
Reconciliation May Be Democrats Last Hope For Health Overhaul
Categorie : AbortionAt the close of Thursday's summit, President Barack Obama hinted at his party's next step: If Republican support does not emerge, Democrats will move forward with reconciliation, a complicated procedure that would allow them to pass health overhaul legislation even without a filibuster-proof 60-vote ...
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Pelosi Gets Final Word On Abortion Coverage At Health Summit
Categorie : AbortionDuring Thursday's televised health care summit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "got the last word" on the issue of abortion coverage when she refuted House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-Ohio) earlier comments on the issue, Roll Call reports. Boehner claimed during the discussion that the ...
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Utah Gov. Considers Bill To Allow Prosecution Of Women Who Seek Illegal Abortions
Categorie : AbortionUtah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) is reviewing details of a bill (HB 12) that would allow criminal charges against women who seek illegal abortions, including self-inflicted attempts to end a pregnancy, with penalties of up to life in prison, the New York Times reports. The bill was approved 59-12 by the s ...
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Some Democrats Cautious As Leaders Line Up Health Votes - GOP Slams Dem Approach
Categorie : AbortionIn addition to GOP resistance, the Democratic party faces internal opposition to some aspects of health reform legislation... ...
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Abortion-Rights Foes, Blue Dog Dems Largest Obstacles To Passing Health Reform In House
Categorie : AbortionThe future of health care reform efforts in the House largely rests with abortion-rights opponents and the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, both of "whose indecision signals the difficulties" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faces in gathering enough votes to pass the legislation, the ...
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Antiabortion-Rights Groups Work To Advance Cause In Black Community
Categorie : AbortionAntiabortion-rights groups are working to attract supporters in the black community with claims that there is a white conspiracy to reduce the black population through abortion, the New York Times reports... ...
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Chicago Tribune Examines Claims That Black Women Are Targeted For Abortions
Categorie : AbortionThe Chicago Tribune on Tuesday examined antiabortion-rights groups' charges that the abortion rate among black women is disproportionately high because abortion providers target this population, a claim disputed by abortion-rights supporters who say the higher rate reflects a greater number of unpla ...
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GOP, Dems Continue Battle Over Using 'Reconciliation' To Move Health Reform Forward
Categorie : AbortionDemocrats are defending the use of the budget reconciliation in a health care overhaul as "nothing extraordinary" while Republicans are accusing them of "trying to ram through legislation using a parliamentary trick that Republicans say was never designed for such a big bill," The Wall Street Journa ...
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GOP Candidates For Fla. Senate Seat Discuss Abortion Views
Categorie : AbortionFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, two candidates for the Republican nomination for Florida's vacant U.S. Senate seat, on Saturday vied for the support of the Christian Family Coalition at an event targeting the conservative voting bloc, the AP/Miami Herald report ...
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States Continue To Wrestle With Medicaid Spending, Budget Issues; Utah Legislation Would Criminalize Illegal Abortion
Categorie : AbortionCincinnati Business Courier: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has signed a bill that will extend the state's mini-COBRA program from 12 to 15 months for small-business employees, according to a report in Columbus Business First (3/1). The Las Vegas Sun: "A bill to save the Medicaid program an estima ...
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Ky. House Committee Rejects Abortion Ultrasound Bill For Fourth Consecutive Year
Categorie : AbortionThe Kentucky Health and Welfare Committee has rejected a prescriptive bill (SB 38) that would have required abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and offer the woman a chance to view the image before the procedure, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports (Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal, 2/2 ...
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Blogs Comment On Antiabortion Billboard Campaign, Health Reform Summit, Other Topics
Categorie : AbortionThe following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries... ...
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Pelosi Signals Openness To Senate Language On Abortion Coverage In Health Reform Bill
Categorie : AbortionIn a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled that House Democrats might be willing to accept the Senate's language on abortion coverage and health insurance for immigrants, Roll Call reports... ...
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Opinion Piece Takes Issue With Reasoning Behind N.C. Local Governments' Cuts To Abortion Coverage
Categorie : AbortionNorth Carolina House Minority Leader Paul Stam (R) "is a committed, passionate and effective opponent of the right of North Carolina women to choose to terminate a pregnancy," but recently he "has turned to claimed legal mandates, that, on close reading, cannot be justified," according to a Raleigh ...
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ABC News Examines Potential Impact Of Utah Bill To Prosecute Women For Illegal Abortions
Categorie : AbortionA bill (HB 12) recently approved by the Utah Legislature that would permit criminal charges against women who seek an illegal abortion "may have opened a loophole" allowing women to be charged with murder if they experience a miscarriage because of "reckless behavior," ABC News reports... ...
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Stupak Renews Abortion Threats In Health Reform
Categorie : AbortionA day after President Obama called for an "up-or-down vote" on health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he and 11 other House members will vote against any final bill that does not include more restrictive language on federal fundi ...
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Okla. Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Decision Against Antiabortion Ultrasound Law
Categorie : AbortionThe Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that a 2008 state law (SB1878) with several antiabortion provisions is unconstitutional because it covers more than one subject, the Oklahoman reports (Bisbee, Oklahoman, 3/4). The law would have required an ultrasound before an abortion ...
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New York Times Analyzes Ford's Decision Not To Challenge Gillibrand For N.Y. Senate Seat
Categorie : AbortionThe New York Times on Tuesday examined how former Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) came to concede that a campaign against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary "would be a brutal fight dominated by endless debates about when he began paying taxes as a New Yorker and the sincerity of ...
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Newsweek Opinion Piece Examines Efforts To Destigmatize Abortion Through Personal Stories
Categorie : AbortionIn an opinion piece, Newsweek reporter Sarah Kliff examines abortion-rights supporters' efforts to lessen stigma surrounding the procedure by focusing on women's personal abortion stories. "In the nearly four decades since Roe v. Wade, in magazines and blogs, in tweets and T-shirts, thousands of wom ...
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