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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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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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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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Study: No higher mental health risk after abortion

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Alicia Chang - Jan. 27 (Research) - Having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems, but having a baby does, one of the largest studies to compare the aftermath of both decisions suggests. The research by Danish scientists further debunks the notion that terminating a pregnancy can trigger mental illness and shows postpartum depression to be much more of a factor.

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Thousands of abortion opponents rally in march on Mall

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michelle Boorstein, Ben Pershing - Jan. 24 (News Report) - The Youth Rally and Mass for Life, hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington, marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Annual events tend to focus on mobilizing the young, and Catholic high schools, youth groups and colleges were out in force Monday in Washington. For the first time, a morning Mass at Verizon Center was expanded to the D.C. Armory, where a parallel event was held. More than 27,000 young people attended the events, which began after dawn and included readings by youths in hooded sweatshirts and jeans, contemporary praise music and dozens of priests hearing confessions in the sports arena's dining area.

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Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Escaped State Oversight

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - The report details a sweeping pattern of negligence, with no inspector stepping foot inside the clinic for more than 16 years. Even the death of Karnamaya Mongar, a Bhutanese refugee who died after a procedure in 2009, was ignored. Janice Staloski, a Health Department official, declined to investigate the death, saying the department had no authority to do so, the report said. The department’s chief counsel, Christine Dutton, defended the agency’s actions to the grand jury, stating bluntly, “People die.”

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Corbett demands answers on clinic

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - By Brad Bumsted - Jan. 22 (News) - Health inspectors sporadically inspected the Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia for 13 years after it opened in 1979. The clinic had not been inspected since 1993, according to a grand jury report this week. Authorities allege workers used unsanitary equipment to induce labor in women with late-term pregnancies, snipping babies' spines and keeping body parts in jars. The report says state officials ignored horrific conditions during the terms of six governors and 10 Health secretaries. It details a gruesome litany of failures and refusals to uphold even basic public health guidelines and lays out a long list of regulatory failures.

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House GOP reopens abortion debate on health care

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar - Jan. 08 (News) - Among other health care issues getting immediate attention from Republicans: curbs on jury awards in medical malpractice cases, rescinding an unpopular requirement that businesses report purchases of $600 or more to the IRS, and a rollback of cuts to private Medicare Advantage plans.

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Child marriage bill UPDATE

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Conor Williams - Dec. 17 (News Report) - In case you missed it, S. 987 (The International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act) failed to pass last night. Despite unanimously passing the Senate, it only garnered a 241-166 majority in the House. Since House rules were in suspension, the bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

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Stem cell research can continue throughout appeal, court says

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By David G. Savage - Sep. 29 (News) - Government-funded research on embryonic stem cells can continue, a U.S. appellate court said Tuesday, while lawyers appeal a judge's decision that found such research illegal.

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After 10 years in US, abortion pill still divisive

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By David Crary - Sep. 27 (News) - Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill by American women. It is hailed as safe and effective, but new turmoil may lie ahead as the pill's proponents consider using telemedicine to make it more available.

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Anti-abortion female Republican candidates could change political equation in Senate

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By David Crary - Sep. 23 (News) - An unusually large contingent of female Republican candidates with strong anti-abortion views is heating up debate on the issue and could change the political equation in the next Congress. In California, Nevada, Delaware and New Hampshire,

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Betty Ford, former first lady, dies at 93

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:42:07 -0700

Washington Post - By Donnie Radcliffe - Sep. 21 (News Report) - Betty Ford, 93, a self-proclaimed “ordinary” woman who never cared for political life but made a liberating adventure out of her 30 months as first lady, died Friday, The Washington Post has confirmed. “I decided that if the White House was our fate,” she once said of Gerald R. Ford's brief presidency, “I might as well have a good time doing it.”

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Senator pushes bill legalizing stem cell research

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jim Abrams - Sep. 13 (News) - Sen. Arlen Specter on Monday initiated a drive to legalize federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, superseding conflicting court decisions that he said are slowing critical work to find cures for crippling diseases.

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War papers leak shock Afghanistan, upset Pakistan (AP) | Find New Articles

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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New gov’t rules allow unapproved iPhone apps (AP) | Find New Articles

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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FDA weighs alternative to 'morning after' pill

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rob Stein - Jun. 12 (News Report) - A French drug company is seeking to offer American women something their European counterparts already have: a pill that works long after "the morning after."

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Nebraska passes new abortion laws

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 14 (News Report) - Critics say laws change legal rationale for ban on later-term abortions as it is based on assertion that foetuses feel pain Two measures putting new restrictions on abortion became law in the midwestern state of Nebraska yesterday, including one that critics say breaks with court precedent by changing the legal rationale for a ban on later-term abortions. Republican governor Dave Heineman signed both bills, one barring abortions at and after 20 weeks of pregnancy and the other requiring women to be screened before having abortions for mental health and other problems. Both sides of the abortion debate say the laws are the first of their kind in the US. A national abortion rights group already appeared to be girding for a legal challenge, ...

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States Reignite Abortion Debate

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Anna Wilde Mathews - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Less than three weeks after the passage of the health-care bill, the abortion debate is being reignited: Lawmakers in least six states are pushing for legislation to block abortion coverage in some health plans.

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