Life, Death and Politics

The bleeding began just after Donna McNichol's routine exam in the early weeks of her first pregnancy. "They told me I might spot a little bit after the exam," she recalled in an interview. "But I wasn't spotting. I was flowing."

The pregnancy was planned and joyful. The young California health aide and her teacher husband had just announced it to their families with a celebratory video of themselves playing "Wheel of Fortune." "I was really ... Full Story »

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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Anecdotal evidence that decisions about the abortion procedure banned by Congress and recently upheld by the Supreme Court may be best left to a woman and her doctor, not the Congress. Predictive of future problems women and their doctors will face as a result of the recent court decision to outlaw intact extraction method abortion.

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