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Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion
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Photo: Police watch as antiabortion advocates take part in a demonstration outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Jan. 27. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images). Note: Crossing state lines for...
Nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape have occurred in states with abortion bans, study estimates
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IMPORTANT RELATED ARTICLES: 1. Post-Roe, nearly 1 in 5 people seeking an abortion traveled out of state, analysis finds 2. See where abortions are banned and legal — and where it’s...
Is there a logical or rational argument against abortion?
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When Roe v. Wade was decided back in 1973, abortion was allowed in all states while both sides of the abortion debate continued to battle it out. Abortion rights opponents wanted to restrict or...
Raped 10-Year-Old Shouldn't Have Had Abortion, Says Anti-Choice Group - Rolling Stone
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A 10 year old is like "many women who have had babies as a result of rape"? SICKENING! Trolling, taunting, spamming, and off topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group mods. NT...
Trump Plans to Nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy - WSJ
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WASHINGTON—President Trump has told congressional Republicans and others he intends to name Amy Coney Barrett, a solidly conservative judge with strong Republican support, as his choice for the...
Unsealed docs show Planned Parenthood charged $25G for body parts, blood samples within months
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Planned Parenthood needs to be shutdown forever for engaging in abortion for the purposes selling the dead baby’s parts for profit. It is clear that those exposing PP were correct in their...
Sidestepping Texas Law, Austin Becomes First U.S. City To Fund Abortion Support Services
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As Texas continues to enact laws making it harder for women to obtain abortions — and impossible for towns and cities to provide funding for abortion care — a liberal stronghold city is...
Over 40 Prosecutors Refuse To Enforce New Anti-Abortion Laws
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Dozens of state and local prosecutors released a statement Friday vowing not to enforce extreme anti-abortion restrictions recently passed in their states. “As elected prosecutors with charging...
Judge's order means Missouri clinic can keep doing abortions
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A judge issued an order Friday ensuring Missouri's only abortion clinic can continue providing abortions, acting just hours before the St. Louis Planned Parenthood facility's license was set to...
Disney C.E.O. Warns Georgia Abortion Law Would Make it ‘Very Difficult’ to Film in the State
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Disney CEO Bob Iger (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) Disney’s chief executive, Bob Iger, said on Wednesday it would be “very difficult” for the company to continue filming in Georgia if the...
Online supplier of abortion pills defies FDA order to stop providing them in US
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As abortion becomes increasingly inaccessible in parts of this country, a Dutch physician is defying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s order to quit providing abortion pills using the...
Alabama Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in the State
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Senate approved a measure on Tuesday that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, setting up a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, the case that recognized a...
Stricter abortion bans are conservative-led states' gambit to overturn Roe vs. Wade
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ATLANTA - When Republican lawmakers in Alabama weighed a stringent new bill that would outlaw almost all abortions, they did not pretend that it complied with federal law or that it would go into...
A Serious Question: How is abortion anyone's business?
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Over the last several months, there have been news reports of certain states trying to prohibit or severely restrict abortion rights, impose legal penalties for women seeking abortion, and even...
Texas advances bill that could make abortions punishable by death
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A total abortion ban criminalizing the procedure and classifying it as a homicide cleared a committee Tuesday and will now be debated at the Texas House of Representatives. If House Bill...
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions
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Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God’s wrath.” The act of public...
Judge Blocks Kentucky Fetal Heartbeat Law That Bans Abortion After 6 Weeks
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Kentucky law that prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which typically happens around six weeks into pregnancy, before many women...
Alabama judge allows teen to sue on behalf of aborted fetus
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A teenager in Alabama is suing an abortion clinic for terminating the life of his unborn child against his wishes. On Tuesday, an Alabama county court recognized the aborted fetus, "Baby Roe," as...
Judge declares Iowa fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A state judge has struck down Iowa's restrictive "fetal heartbeat" abortion law.Judge Michael Huppert on Tuesday found the law unconstitutional. He concluded that the Iowa...
Author of Ohio abortion bill believes Supreme Court will welcome it 'with open arms'
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A bill that would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected was approved this week by the Ohio Senate, the first step in what the bill's author says is the controversial legislation's path...
Supreme Court asked to review abortion law signed by Pence
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Indiana is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over a law that bars women from having abortions based on gender, race or disability. Vice President Mike Pence signed the law in 2016...
A doctor is taking over Planned Parenthood — and she’s ready to fight
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In May, the country’s most polarizing provider of reproductive health care lost its most visible leader.After 12 years as president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards left behind an...
Argentine group says 3,000 Catholics quit church over abortion
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Thousands of Argentine Catholics on Friday renounced their membership in the church to protest its opposition to a bill that would have legalized abortion in Pope Francis's homeland, a group...
‘I’m Doing It for the Babies’: Inside the Ground Game to Reverse Roe v. Wade
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From MSN News: AVON, Ind. — Armed with sunscreen, doorknob fliers and a mission 50 years in the making, the team of activists sporting blue “I Vote Pro-Life” T-shirts fanned out into a web of...
Trump promised judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade
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(Graphic: H. Elizabeth, Pinterest) During his initial round of questioning, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), the Judiciary Committee chair, gave Gorsuch ample room to discuss judicial...
Supreme Court change sparks birth control discussions
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From CNN: The news of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement prompted some women to turn to Twitter to encourage others to get an IUD. An intrauterine device can prevent pregnancy for up to 12...
Pregnant Woman Denied Miscarriage Prescription at Walgreens
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From MSN: When Nicole Arteaga found out she was pregnant two months ago, she and her husband were ecstatic. But after suffering a previous miscarriage, the couple was hesitant to tell anyone.On...
Judge agrees to halt fetal heartbeat abortion law in Iowa
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A judge agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the country from taking effect in Iowa next month under an agreement between lawyers for the...
Abortion does not cause depression, new study finds: Groups that claim abortion leads to mental illness are misleading people, experts say
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From NBC News: Abortions don’t cause depression, although women who have depression and anxiety may be more likely to have abortions, researchers reported Wednesday.The study is the latest to show...
U.S. top court rejects challenge to strict Arkansas abortion law
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From MSN News: In a setback to abortion rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for Republican-backed restrictions on medication-induced abortions to take effect in...
Abortion stigma is gone, says Irish PM after vote
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From MSN News: Ireland on Saturday voted to erase the stigma and burden of shame from hundreds of thousands of women who secretly had abortions, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said. Speaking after...
Ireland abortion referendum: Country votes in landmark ballot
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From MSN: Voters in Ireland are casting their ballots in a landmark referendum to decide whether to remove a constitutional amendment that bans abortion in almost all circumstances.Polling...
Anti-Abortion Violence on the Rise, New Study Says
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From MSN News : Before Laura Laursen drives to work at a women’s health clinic in southern Illinois, where she provides abortions about once a month when she isn’t performing them as an OBGYN...
Abortion rates go down when countries make it legal: report
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From NBCNews (emphasis mine): Abortion rates have fallen over the past 25 years, even as more countries have made the procedure legal and easier to get, according to a new report released...
The Latest: Judge temporarily blocks 15-week abortion ban
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From Associated Press : JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks' gestation — the most restrictive abortion...
Satanic Temple challenges Missouri’s abortion law on religious grounds
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From NBCNEWS : There will be a showdown with Satan on Tuesday in the Missouri Supreme Court. Not with Lucifer himself, but with a group called the Satanic Temple that is going to bat for a...
Fetuses found in Detroit warehouse owned by body broker, report says
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Federal authorities reportedly discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of Arthur Rathburn, pictured here at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in November 1988....
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs down syndrome abortion ban (Repost)
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This is a repost of the previous article I posted. As that article had over 500 comments, I thought a repost of the same article would make for a fresh start, without risk of lagging or crashing...
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs down syndrome abortion ban
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From NBCNEWS : COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio is prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome, joining other states with similarly strict legislation. Republican...
Trump Contraceptive Move Could Lead to More Abortions
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From NBCNEWS : The Trump administration's moves this week to cut back on free birth control and tighten abortion restrictions could add up to an unintended consequence, according to experts:...
Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics and Got an HIV Outbreak
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Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider — a Planned Parenthood clinic — was forced to...
TX Democrat Responds To Anti-Abortion Bills With Proposal To Regulate Men's "Masturbatory Emissions"
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House Bill 4260 , filed Friday by Houston Rep. Jessica Farrar, would impose a $100 fine for emissions "outside of a woman's vagina or a health or medical facility," which would be considered "an...