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Michigan Seeking Federal Abortion Ban Copy

Alexa Stanard, New Journalist Fellow on April 18, 2008 - 9:50am
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The Michigan House is poised to consider a symbolic bill that would mirror the federal ban on so-called partial birth abortion. Local Planned Parenthood staff say Michigan Right to Life is using the bill as an election-year loyalty test.


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Politics Has No Place in Medicine

Dr. Willie Parker, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health on April 18, 2008 - 9:48am
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A year ago today, on April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on a specific abortion procedure. The law deliberately omitted an exception allowing doctors to act if a woman's health is in danger. Now, copycat legislation is being introduced in states across the country.


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Obama in Iowa On Abortion and Ab-Only

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on October 11, 2007 - 8:30am
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Barack Obama wants to reduce unintended pregnancies and provide comprehensive sex-ed to young people - and he doesn't think running a dog-fighting ring is equivalent to accessing abortion!


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Hell Hath No Fury like an Entire Female Population Scorned

Andrea Lynch, RH Reality Check on April 26, 2007 - 8:45am
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The Supreme Court has effectively unfurled the judicial equivalent of a banner reading "Bring it on, Roe haters!" by upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003; we can expect even more state-level restrictions in the months and years to come. Meanwhile, Nicaragua women are suffering from that country's total abortion ban—36 women have died from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes so far in 2007.


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Supreme Court: "Our Women Need Protectin'"

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on April 26, 2007 - 8:00am
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Who's your daddy? Apparently, Justices Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Kennedy are.


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