Wikio - Abortion

Miracle Child Once Scheduled For Abortion At Tiller’s Will Go To Abortion Clinic Today To Save Lives (Catholic Fire)

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:40:00 GMT

Donna Joy and her mom helped pass the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 2003 and Delivered Petition to U.S. Supreme Court Justices In 2007 Wichita, KS – Donna Joy Vance has been called a life spared to impact a nation. She certainly has done that in her young life, having appeared at Congressional Hearings in support of a Federal ban on Partial Birth Abortions and in the process,...

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Origins of Personhood: Using 'States Rights' to Restrict Abortion (Unbossed)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The first in a series of reports exploring the ramifications of this controversial state ballot measure. Hard-line, socially conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion since President Bush and Congress have all but abandoned the federal cause. To that end, Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at...

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John McCain: Anti Abortion. Obama is all for it - so was CHairman Mao! (with both hands)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:22:00 GMT

NARAL endorsed Barack Obama who told Planned Parenthood that he would fight for the right of Mothers who choose to murder their babies. Choice, argues NARAL, is Justice. I don't think so. But let's take a look at what a Pro Choice culture, Red China, has done for women. Chairman Mao, a Communist Icon, demanded, advocated and ordered Abortion. Here is what happened to a woman named Mao - no relative....

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Pope Benedict Criticizes Italian Abortion Law, Prime Minister Berlusconi Responds (Medical News Today)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday in a meeting with antiabortion advocates in Italy criticized the country's 1978 law that legalized abortion, Reuters/San Diego Union Tribune reports. The law bans most abortions after the first 90 days of pregnancy. The law allows procedures until 24 weeks' gestation if the pregnant woman's life is at risk or if the fetus is abnormal.

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Spivack on Abortion Law in Early Modern England (Legal Theory Blog)

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Carla Spivack (Oklahoma City University SChool of Law) has posted To Bring Down the Flowers: The Cultural Context of Abortion Law in Early Modern England on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article takes issue with claims made by Joseph...

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Abortion debate: Gordon Brown to oppose 20-week limit change (The Telegraph)

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:19:05 GMT

An attempt to lower the legal abortion time limit will be opposed by Gordon Brown during next week's vote on the issue.

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When the personal isn't political: abortion as taboo (The F-Word Blog)

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:37:06 GMT

Access to abortion in the UK is not as good as it should be. In less than a week, MPs will be voting on whether to make the situation worse by reducing the time limit. Kit Roskelly has dissected the...

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Mo. Judge Rejects PPKM Argument Against State Law To Reclassify Abortion Clinics As Ambulatory Surgical Centers (Medical News Today)

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT

A Missouri judge on Friday ruled against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri's challenge to a state law that would designate facilities performing second- or third-trimester abortions or more than five first-trimester abortions each month as "ambulatory surgical centers," making them subject to increased regulation from the state Department of Health and Senior Services, the...

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A ''Conspiracy of Silence' on '08 Trail? (ABC News)

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:53 GMT

... of silence" on the controversial issue. McCain raised neither the issue of gay marriage nor abortion in a speech Thursday outlining the objectives he would like to accomplish in a first term in the White House. But McCain's reluctance to raise such subjects may not be shared by all conservatives. Offense Against the Defense of Marriage ActWhile running for the Senate in 2004, Obama called...

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Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend (PhotoshopNews)

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:09:23 GMT

Let Liz and Kate keep their airbrushed beauty. They've earned it Source: The Guardian Written by Julie Burchill Votes for Women! The Equal Pay Act! Divorce! Abortion! Ooo, don't you love the smell of full-on feminist legislation in the morning? This, girls, was the 20th century. And now, lucky ladies that we are, we’re about to get … [...]

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Judicial Outrage (Townhall.com)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:36:41 GMT

If Republicans want voters to understand the threat to representative self-government posed by an activist judiciary, they need look no further than the outrageous usurpation of legislative authority by the California Supreme Court, which has effectively out of whole cloth.This is, of course, after the voters of California overwhelmingly approved a law defining marriage as between a man and a woman...

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Another Pro-Life Post (Words, words)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:15:00 GMT

"The greatest act of evil was the murder of the second person of the Blessed Trinity. But this greatest act of evil wad turned to the greatest good."--Fr. Tom Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, in a homily on EWTN on the feast of St. Isadore, about the importance of the Cross to Christianity It's been haunting me lately. It's always all around us--the problem, the "issue" of abortion....

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ThinkFast: May 15, 2008 (Think Progress)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:57 GMT

Solicitor General Paul Clement, “the government's voice at the Supreme Court, resigned Wednesday, a sign that the Bush administration's legal agenda is fading as it prepares to wind down.” Clement served the entirety of the Bush administration in the solicitor general's office, pushing a legal agenda that included issues such as limiting abortion rights and [...]

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Women's Rights Under Fire (Cruella-blog)

noreply@blogger.com (Cruella) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Sorry for not posting for a while - I've been applying myself a little more practically to some of the issues which I am normally discussing here. In particular the abortion law in the UK which despite being forty years old and in desperate need of updating* are in fact in danger of being rolled back. A cross-party group of MPs including of course all the devoutly religious ones and all the...

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Islamic law ‘to influence UK system’ (The Herald )

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:21:36 GMT

A leading member of the Catholic Church in Scotland has predicted that elements of Islamic law will inevitably be incorporated into the British legal system over time.

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Solicitor general to resign (JSOnline)

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:47:34 GMT

... vast majority of cases," the Justice Department said, including:• Gonzales vs. Carhart, declaring laws prohibiting so-called partial birth abortions as constitutional.• McConnell vs. Federal Election Commission, which found that disallowing soft money in political campaigns did not violate protections on free speech.Clement also represented the government in Rumsfeld vs. Padilla,...

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Queensland University Student UnionNot liberal but fascist (Of course, I could be wrong...)

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:00 GMT

The Student Union at Queensland University have shown themselves to be just as illiberal as the Roman Catholics they accuse of being illiberal. I don't agree with the Catholic position on abortion and I certainly don't agree with the way they try to blackmail politicians into voting as they tell them to. But the Union's recent actions against the Catholics on campus place them somewhere to the...

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6 Months To Make Up Your Mind Is A Human Right (Down With Everybody)

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:19:23 GMT

Abortion rights are once again under attack with amendments to the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill. The left need to unite behind the defence of the 24 weeks limit. They also need to work with feminist groups to push for a liberalisation of abortion law ,as a minimum a move to one doctor’s signature and preferably abortion [...]

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Trouble in the Heartland (Bench Memos)

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:48:03 GMT

Kansas Gover Kathleen Sibelius is in the news for two reasons. One is that some people think she would be a good running mate for Barack Obama. The other is that Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City publicly stated that she should not receive Holy Communion until she repudiates her pro-abortion positions. The Archbishop cited several Sibelius vetos of abortion-restricting bills, particularly...

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Everyone Hates a Sad Professor (Reason Magazine - Hit & Run)

dweigel@reason.com (David Weigel) — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:53:00 GMT

I think culture wars progress on a bell curve. A decade or ago conservatives ran Colorado from stem to stern and routed liberals on taxes , abortion law. In the late 90s and early 2000s the culture wars simmered down (we can argue about the role Columbine had in this) and the Democrats became more competitive. In 2004 the Democrats wrested a Senate seat and the state legislature from Republicans,...

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