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The health care law, Catholics and birth control

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Feb. 10 (Fact Check) - Is President Barack Obama’s administration requiring the Catholic Church to provide birth control coverage to nuns? As rhetoric rises in a clash between Catholic leaders and the federal government over a rule requiring co-pay-free coverage of contraceptives in most health plans, here’s a guide. What the rule says The newly final rule stems from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 — what Republican presidential candidates call "Obamacare." It affects the health plans employers offer their ... >>More

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The Birth Control Solution

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Family planning is crucial to solving poverty, climate change and other issues. And don’t worry: contraceptives don’t cause sex.

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The Texas Tribune: Center Typifies New Face of Pregnancy Services

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By T Tan - Aug. 14 (News) - The Texas Legislature deeply cut spending for family planning, but increased funding for a conservative group called Alternatives to Abortion.

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Mitt Romney Refuses To Sign Pro-Life Pledge

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Ward - Jun. 18 (News) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has refused to sign a pledge being circulated by a pro-life group, citing concerns with the language used in the pact.

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Restricting Choice

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AU.org - By Sandhya Bathija - Jun. 09 (News Report) - In March, Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a measure that requires women to consult with a “crisis pregnancy center” (CPC) and wait at least 72 hours before going forward with a pregnancy termination. According to Sedor and other reproductive justice and civil liberties groups, the law is the equivalent of an all-out state abortion ban. Already, access to the procedure was extremely limited within the state, she said.

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Kansas Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead For Rape: ‘I Have A Spare Tire’

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Tanya Somanader - May. 25 (News Report) - DeGraaf’s belief that women should plan and prepare for their own rape is more than groan-worthy, it’s woefully out-of-touch. As Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann notes, DeGraaf is basically telling sexual assault victims that “the state isn’t AAA” so a Kansas woman is responsible for the consequences of her attacker. And by comparing it to life insurance, DeGraaf goes further to insinuate that rape is as inevitable as death. Unfortunately, this Boy Scout dismissal of rape and incest victims is as galling as it is common among the GOP.

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Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Michelle Goldberg - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Utah prosecutors and conservative politicians are determined to lock up the young woman known in court filings as J.M.S. for the crime of trying to end her pregnancy. Her grim journey through the legal system began in 2009, when she was 17 and pregnant by a convicted felon named Brandon Gale

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Jon Kyl: Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson, Bill Adair - Apr. 08 (News Report) - As the government inched toward a shutdown on April 8, 2011, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., gave a speech on the Senate floor to respond to Democratic charges that the major sticking point in the negotiations was a disagreement over Planned Parenthood. Many Repu

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10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

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Abortion

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Toles - Mar. 31 (Cartoon) - cartoon

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GOP War on Women: Conservatives Are Intent on Curtailing Our Rights and Freedoms

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Melissa Harris-Perry - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - ". . .the aggressive antichoice legislation coming from the new GOP majority in the House makes perfectly clear that belt-tightening deficit reduction is entirely compatible with an older social agenda committed to pushing American women out."

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In Its Crusade Against Choice, Has the GOP Gone Too Far?

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Katha Pollitt - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - Not content with depriving women of reproductive healthcare, House Republicans want to starve them and their children too.

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GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

theittlist.com - By Lindsay Beyerstein - Mar. 03 (News Report) - We all have our limits. The GOP’s crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent op/ed column, Scaife broke with House Republicans over their resolution to de-fund Planned Parenthood and the entire Title X family planning program, Scot Kersgaard reports in the Minnesota Independent.

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DA to seek death penalty for abortionist Gosnell | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/02/2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Joseph A. Slobodzian - Mar. 02 (News) - The Gosnells and their eight employees were criminally charged in January after the District Attorney's Office released a 260-page county grand jury report. The report alleged in horrific detail that Gosnell performed illegal late-term abortions for poor women, in some cases killing infants born viable by cutting their spines with scissors.

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Fetuses to be presented as witnesses before Ohio House committee considering abortion restrictions

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Aaron Marshall - Mar. 02 (News) - Two fetuses will be presented as witnesses before an Ohio legislative committee that is hearing a bill to outlaw abortions after the first heartbeat can be detected inside a woman's womb.

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South Dakota Shelves Bill Aimed at Defending Unborn

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By A.G. Sulzberger - Feb. 17 (News) - A state bill to expand the definition of justifiable homicide in South Dakota to include killing someone in the defense of an unborn child was postponed indefinitely Wednesday after an uproar over whether the legislation would put abortion providers at greater risk.

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Abortion clinic scandal fallout costs 6 jobs - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - By Brad Bumsted - Feb. 16 (News) - "This doesn't even rise to the level of government run amok. It was government not running at all. To call this 'unacceptable' doesn't say enough. It's despicable,'' Corbett said about the failures of state agencies to inspect the clinic and act on complaints against its operator, Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Feb. 15 (News Report) - A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.

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Big Government's Back Alley

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

steynonline.com - By Mark Steyn - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - A government back alley, licensed and supposedly regulated, is worse than the old kind, because it implies the approval of the state, and of society. That's what Gosnell thought he had, when he murdered those babies and mutilated those teenage girls. That's what Planned Parenthood think they have, when they facilitate the sexual exploitation of Third World children. And, given the silence of the PC media, maybe they're right. Aside from the intrinsic evil of not only Gosnell but a state that knowingly colludes with him, these "little" abortion stories reveal an almost totalitarian mindset in the "pro-choice" movement's determination to brook no intrusion of reality upon the official myths. You may be one of those wealthy suburban "feminists" or "new men" indifferent to the fate of eight-pound "blobs of tissue" or 14-year old "women", but the gulf between propaganda and truth, between the fatuous feelgood bumper stickers and the rusty crochet hooks, is profound - and, in a world where statists and social engineers serve as ruthless enforcers for the prevailing ideology, its deep moral corruption will eventually swallow you, too. America should be at the very minimum deeply disquieted by these revelations. That it is not - that it is dismissed as a "little thing" - is even more disquieting.

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GOP Backs Massive Tax Increase To Phase Out Abortion Coverage By Private Insurers

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Brian Beutler - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Ultimately, the impact of tax like the one in the Republican legislation would likely be to phase out abortion coverage in the private insurance market. This would upend the long-standing bipartisan consensus, which does not enshrine the idea that the government should exert pressure on private entities to deny medical services they don't like.

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Healthcare repeal would harm women around the world | Michael Williams

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Michael Williams - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Around the world, people are fascinated by the political tussle between Democrats and Republicans over attempts to repeal the landmark US healthcare bill passed last year. Few people realise, however, that if the new Republican-dominated House of Represe

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DEATH'S DOLLARS: The abortionist, accused of murders, made at least $1.8M a year. He says he's broke. Where did it all go?

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Stephanie Farr - Feb. 08 (News Report) - According to the grand jury's report, it's estimated that Gosnell, 69, made almost $1.8 million each year in abortions alone - and most of it was cash from desperate, poor women. That figure does not account for any of the money he took in from allegedly selling illegal prescriptions to drug addicts in his community, including his notable distinction of being one of the top three prescribers of OxyContin in Pennsylvania, something federal authorities continue to investigate. But when brought before a judge Friday to explain why he and his wife, Pearl, had not hired attorneys, Gosnell claimed to be broke. The judge didn't buy it and refused to appoint public defenders for the couple. They have until Wednesday to hire a lawyer.

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Senator wants to prevent another abortion 'house of horrors'

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - By Jill King Greenwood - Feb. 08 (News) - Sen. Vincent J. Hughes said yesterday that the legislation is in response to a grand jury's report on the Women's Medical Clinic in the Democrat's West Philadelphia district, where investigators say Dr. Kermit Gosnell caused the death of a female patient and killed babies born alive.

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Anti-abortion protesters target site of proposed Planned Parenthood clinic in Redwood City

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By Bonnie Eslinger - Feb. 07 (News) - About 35 anti-abortion protesters congregated Friday afternoon in front of a Redwood City building where Planned Parenthood hopes to open a clinic, holding signs including some with graphic images of aborted fetuses. Planned Parenthood's application for a permit to operate a clinic at 2890 El Camino Real drew dozens of supporters and opponents to a hearing last month before the city's zoning administrator. No decision has been made yet. Fran Linkin, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood's regional office, said last month that the women's health care provider has no immediate plans to offer abortions at the clinic, although that could change if it determines the need exists.

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For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Feb. 04 (News Analysis) - "Real social revolutions are basically media revolutions ... and this is a media revolution," says Brian Anse Patrick, author of "Rise of the Anti-Media" and a communications professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio. "There's a battle going on between orthodoxies. What was unthinkable or not discussed – well, here we are, we're talking about it."

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