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Health & Wellness News tagged with abortion

The Stupak-Pitts Controversy Is Based On--and Masks--A Deepset Fear of Women's Agency
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, government, abortion, stupak-pitts )

Tierney
- 12 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House bill for health care reform grabbed most of the headlines after the health care reform vote. It makes sense---the media and socially conservative politicians love to bang the drum about abortion
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Abortion Pill Used in a Quarter of US Abortions
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, Abortion, prevention, protection, safety, drugs, women, study, medicine )

Dee
- 144 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill."
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The Truth About Abortion
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, safety, prevention, medicine, women, society, culture, abortion, doctor, tiller, women, choice, domestic, terrorism, murder, antiabortion, fringe, sadness, crime, death, americans, violence, rights, safety, government, law. politics )

Tom
- 179 days ago - thedailybeast.com
Pro-life extremists imagine a country awash in abortions, but they are much harder to procure than most people realize. The truth is that in most places in the United States abortions are technically legal, but they are often nearly impossible to obtain.
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Neb. Doctor Wants to Carry on Tiller's Mission
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, Abortion, Dr Tiller's death, womens rights, protection, women, treatment )

Dee
- 180 days ago - news.yahoo.com
OMAHA, Neb.-Physician LeRoy Carhart wants to continue providing third-term abortions after the brazen slaying of his friend and colleague George Tiller, but the Nebraska doctor doesn't have anywhere to perform them and- - -
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Kan. Doctor Refused to Quit: `I Know They Need Me'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Dr Tiller, Health, Abortion, Women's rights, healthcare, prevention, protection, women )

Dee
- 180 days ago - news.yahoo.com
To some he was an unflinching hero, to others a remorseless villain. As a late-term abortion doctor, George Tiller knew he had chosen a dangerous career, one that made him a lightning rod. His clinic was a fortress, his days marred by threats, but--
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BREAKING: Petition: Support Obama's Moves to Overturn Bush Rule
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, treatment, society, science, safety, risks, protection, prevention, health, healthcare, government, family planning, contraception, abortion )

Chris
- 267 days ago - ppaction.org
Add your name to our list and show your support for restoring the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information and services, without fear of of being denied vital information and services based on personal beliefs.
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Can This Be Pro-Life?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abortion, Bush, McCain, Palin, Africa, women, rape, sex education, contraception, AIDS, bush, bushadministration, ethics, lies, healthcare, politics, children, disease, family, protection, prevention, women )

Rebecca
- 416 days ago - nytimes.com
The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortio
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Script Doctors
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine, abortion, law )

Michael
- 467 days ago - slate.com
THE DILEMMA FACING SOUTH DAKOTA'S ABORTION PROVIDERS: MISLEAD YOUR PATIENTS OR BREAK THE LAW.
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Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read
Health & Wellness  (tags: abortion, women, rights, society, safety, politics, religion, news, law, government, health, humans, interesting, ethics, crime, culture, death, americans, children, child, Govtfearmongering, propaganda, republicans, abuse, constitution, politics, SupremeC )


- 495 days ago - washingtonpost.com
In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being."
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Financial Strain a Factor in Abortions
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, society, women, abortion, financial, factors, stress )


- 680 days ago - courant.com
In American pop culture, the face of abortion is often a frightened teenager, nervously choosing to terminate an unexpected pregnancy. The numbers tell a far more complex story in which financial stress can play a pivotal role.
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Nicaragua: New Abortion Ban Puts Women's Lives at Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: reproductive rights, women, risks, abortion, death )

Julia
- 788 days ago - hrw.org
Nicaragua's blanket ban on abortion, which criminalizes life-saving medical treatment, has had a devastating impact on women's health and lives, Human Rights Watch said today in the first-ever report on the human rights consequences of the ban.
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Irish Government Holds Teen Hostage to Prevent Abortion
Health & Wellness  (tags: abortion, ireland )

Barry
- 938 days ago - alternet.org
Echidne: An extreme example of the world of forced childbirth.
2 comments
Mississippi Governor Signs Abortion Trigger Law: No More Abortions
Health & Wellness  (tags: abortion, choice, women, roe v. wade, mississippi, ethics, civil rights )

Diana
- 980 days ago - feminist.org
The bill only allows exceptions if the life of a woman is in jeopardy or if a woman has become pregnant resulting from a rape that was reported to law enforcement. Kentucky wants to inform women that the fetus feels pain @ 20 weeks, which is untrue.
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