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Next Stop, Supreme Court: What Happens If Anti-Choice Ballot Initiatives In South Dakota and Colorado Pass?

Kay Steiger on October 7, 2008 - 6:00am
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Is it wise for anti-choicers to bring a direct challenge to Roe to the Supreme Court, as they would if either the South Dakota or Colorado ballot initiative passes? Anti-choice activists are divided on the strategy.

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Ballot Initiatives Represent Multi-Pronged Attack on Choice

Kay Steiger on August 19, 2008 - 8:00am
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Voters in Colorado, South Dakota and California will have the opportunity to restrict or protect women's reproductive rights this November. What effect would each of these initiatives have, and who's behind them?

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Colorado Personhood Law Backer Linked to Militant Anti-Abortion Groups

Wendy Norris on August 11, 2008 - 11:55am
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A strange netherworld of extremes exists in today's anti-abortion movement. Nowhere is that more evident than in Colorado's proposed Amendment 48, a controversial mandate that seeks to confer constitutional rights to fertilized human eggs.

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Roundup: Compulsory Sex Education, GOP Ballot Initiative Strategy

Brady Swenson on July 28, 2008 - 11:42am
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Independent council in UK recommends compulsory comprehensive sex education, GOP attempts to lure conservatives to polls with ballot initiatives, 49% of IVF treatments result in multiple births, Ashley Judd discovers importance of family planning in Africa.

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Roundup: Americans Strongly Oppose Bush HHS Proposal

Brady Swenson on July 24, 2008 - 12:36pm
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89% of more than 100,000 Americans surveyed in an informal online poll oppose Bush's proposed anti-contraception regulations, How to fix sex-ed in the US, Finally repealing the HIV immigration ban will require action from HHS.

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Using "States' Rights" to Restrict Abortion

Wendy Norris on May 15, 2008 - 8:00am
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Conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion. Colorado is once again serving as a political incubator in yet another attempt to chip away at Roe v. Wade, this time in the form of an amendment stating that life begins at conception.

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Huckabee "Eggs" on Conservatives in Colorado

Wendy Norris on February 27, 2008 - 9:49am
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GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Colorado's "egg as a person" state ballot measure on Monday, but for whose benefit -- Zygote Americans or his own dwindling political fortunes?


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