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Former French Minister of Health and past President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil, 82, was inaugurated as only the sixth female member of the Académie française in history. Founded in 1635 by the Cardinal Richelieu, the Académie consists...
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The image is enough to stop traffic, and that was obviously the intention behind the enormous poster of Adolf Hitler and a bloody fetus that appeared this week at a busy intersection in central Poznan, the fifth largest city in Poland. The poster...
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The Kentucky Senate yesterday passed Bill 38, requiring that doctors show and explain ultrasound images to women seeking abortions. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that doctors, by law, will have to explain the ultrasounds, being sure to "...
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In less than twenty-four hours, Massachusetts voters will start heading to the polls to decide who will fill the seat vacated by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, is facing Republican State Senator Scott...
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UK Department of Health has revealed that 20,247 women under 25 had a repeat abortion - with 5,000 of those being teenagers.
NHS statistics show that around 3,800 women have had four or more abortions, and that about a third of all last year's 195...
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You know what the Stupak–Pitts Amendment does to the healthcare reform bill, right? It prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for:
* any abortion, or
* any part of the costs of any health plan that covers abortion,
* except in cases of rape,...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 3:21pm By Chris Hall
Anti-abortion rights group American Right to Life has promised that when Sarah Palin reaches the state of Indiana to promote her new ghost-written autobiography, Going Rogue, she can expect to face demonstrations against her pro-choice politics.
Yes...
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It's no longer necessary to call Scott Roeder the "alleged" murderer of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Roeder admitted to the AP this afternoon that he did indeed murder Tiller, and that he intends to use the "necessity...
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There are a number of different strategies that community organizations use to raise money for important causes: selling raffle tickets, for example. Cookies or candies. If you have the resources, a large dinner and gala where donors can meet...
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Michigan state Representative Jim Slezak (Dem., Davison Township), has decided to start tilting at windmills in his very first term in office—if by "windmills" you mean women's wombs. Slezak has proposed an amendment to the state...
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Irene Vilar's Impossible Motherhood was released last week amid a flurry of press. Published by small imprint Other Press after rejections from over fifty other publishing houses, the book chronicles the fifteen abortions Vilar had between the...
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Have the scary cupcakes failed to discourage you from going down to the clinic and getting that oh-so-fashionable abortion you've been thinking about? Maybe this will: as of November 1, if you're a woman getting an abortion in Oklahoma, you'll be...
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Did you know that today is National Pro-Life Cupcakes Day? Actually, we didn't either. But we don't feel too bad about it, because we weren't going to celebrate anyway. We like the cupcake part, but the anti-choice message... not so much, although...
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Just how much should you share on your Twitter feed? CarnalNation sends out our headlines via Twitter of course, but says little (if anything) about the staff's love affairs, orgasms, or bowel movements, which makes it a fairly staid example of the...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 12:37pm By Chris Hall
The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has been the bane of pro-choice activists since Randall Terry founded it in 1986. But if a recent announcement by the group's president, Troy Newman, is true then that history may soon come to an end. Newman...