Abortion

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Stepping Up the Pressure: The Archbishop Comes to the Abortion Clinic

Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Archbishop, Louisville, Kentucky, Catholics for Choice, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Jon-Obrien, Pro-Choice, Living News

Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.

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War Wounds

Robert Slayton | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Regenerated Femur Bone, Combat Injuries, Stem Cell, Iraq Veterans, Cartilage Regeneration, Army Times, Zyphoid Cartilage, Barbara Boyen, Abortion, Living News

Miracles, in other words, may be possible, if we can unleash our scientists and doctors to move ahead with new techniques to heal the sick and damaged.

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Abortion Parental Notification Law Challenged By Clinic

Chicago Breaking News | William Lee | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Parental Notification, Abortion Rights, Illinois Parental Notification Law, Hope Clinic for Women, Allison Cowett, Chicago News

A Downstate women's clinic is challenging the state's law requiring doctors to notify the parents of teenage girls before an abortion is performed....

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Daley Will Sign Abortion Protest Buffer Zone Law

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abortion, Chicago City Council, Chicago Abortion Protests, Mayor Daley, Anti-Abortion, Chicago Abortion Ordinance, Daley Abortion, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Chicago News

In a political about-face, Mayor Daley said Friday he would sign legislation creating a protective zone around Chicago hospitals and clinics to keep p...

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Rachel Maddow Show Takes On Oklahoma Abortion Disclosure Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Oklahoma Abortion Law, Abortion, Video, Rachel Maddow, Megan Carpentier, Bill O'Reilly, Oklahoma-Abortion-Website, Media News

On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow took up the issue of a new law in Oklahoma that would seek to publicly shame and intimidate women who have ...

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I Was A Teenage Anti-Abortionist

Carl Capotorto | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Far Right, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Abortion Rights, Radical Right, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

The far right is daily being chased back into the margins, where it belongs. All that's left of their movement is a relative handful of confused, misguided know-nothings being manipulated and led by a cynical elite.

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Oklahoma Abortion Law: Details To Be Publicly Posted Online

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Abortion Pro-Life, Oklahoma Abortion Website, Abortion Rights, Oklahoma Post Abortion, Oklahoma Women's Rights, Oklahoma Law Abortion, Oklahoma Abortion, Pro-Life, Politics News

A new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women's abortions to the State's Department Of Health, which will then post...

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A Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Dialogue, Public Policy, Social Justice, Debate, Religious Beliefs, Misinformation, Dignity, Abolition, Religious, Biblical, Community, Health-Care Debate, Healing, Biblical Principles, Legislation, America, Civil Rights, Ten Commandments, Moral Values, Insurance Company, Abortion, Profits, Common Good, Principle, Civil Rights Movement, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Gospel, Health Care, Politics News

There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.

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Anti-Abortion Activists Required To Keep Distance From Clinics, People Under New Ordinance

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abortion, Chicago Abortion Protests, Chicago City Council, Chicago Abortion Ordinance, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Chicago News

The Chicago City Council today voted 27-11 to pass an ordinance creating a so-called bubble zone requiring anti-abortion activists to keep their dista...

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Illinois Doesn't Have To Offer 'Choose Life' License Plates: Supreme Court

AP | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Supreme Court, Choose Life License Plates, Choose Life Plates, Illinois Choose Life License Plates, Supreme Court Choose Life, Pro Life License Plates, Abortion, Chicago News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to hear an anti-abortion's group request to force a state to issue "Choose Life" license plates. The...

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Irene Vilar, Abortion Addict Speaks

The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Publishing, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Writing, Abortion Addict, Addiction, Memoir, Books News

At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Michael Steele, Red Mass, Supreme Court, Scalia, Justice, Ray Lahood, Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Antonin Scalia, St. Matthew Cathedral, Pro-Life, Joe Biden, John Roberts, Breyer, Biden, Cardinal DiNardo, Catholicism, Stephen Breyer, Abortion, John Carroll Society, Anti-Abortion, Sonia Sotomayor, Pro-Choice, Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Ken Salazar, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Anthony Kennedy, D.C., Catholic, Home News

WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

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Colorado Republicans Abandon Social Issues

Laura Chapin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Abortion, Politics, Colorado, Republicans, Andrew Romanoff, Social Issues, Lynn Bartels, Bill Ritter, Michael Bennet, Denver News

It remains to be seen if this political kumbayah can survive a divisive Republican primary. The intolerant wing of the Republican party is notoriously intolerant of its own candidates.

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Irene Vilar: Self-described "Abortion Addict" Confesses To 15 Procedures

National Post | Mary Vallis | Posted 10.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Abortion Addict, Abortion Addiction, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, New Book, Vilar, Books News

Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so extreme it would surely b...

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: 80, Chicago, Spiro Agnew, Eighty Percent, Reform, South America, Alan Grayson, DC City Council, Dc, Charles Schumer, Death Panel, Die Quickly, Grayson Transcript, William Safire, Floor Speech, Midotw, Sexual Harassment, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Don't Get Sick, Health Care, Kenneth Feinberg, Reid, Tarp, Abortion, Public Option, Grayson Speech, Democrat, Letterman, Congress, Pay Czar, Democrats, Barack Obama, Schumer, Mddotw, Child Rape, Health, Harry Reid, Vacation, Nixon, Bonuses, Polanski, Gay Marriage, Healthcare, Senate, David Catania, Ben Nelson, Cloture, President Obama, Sex Scandal, Washington, Filibuster, Moral Relativism, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Republican, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Paranoid Delusions, Rio, Roman Polanski, Salaries, Rape, House, Copenhagen, Nelson, Consensual, Olympics, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Sex, Columbus Day, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Troubled Assets, David Letterman, Agnew, Safire, Feinberg, Catania, Politics News

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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No On Abortions, Yes On Bill, Says GOP Congressman Cao

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

"Basically, I do agree with the President that we need some kind of health care reform," says Anh in a Q and A. "Now, what kind of reform are we going to get? That is the question."

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Ordinance Would Create 'Bubble' To Protect Abortion Patients, Providers From Protesters

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Vi Daley, George Tiller, Abortion, Chicago Abortion Ordinance, Abortion Rights, Abortion Protection Zone, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Planned Parenthood, Chicago News

Arguing that abortion protests have grown more "vicious" and "in-your-face" since the May 31 murder of a Wichita, Kan., doctor, a Chicago City Council...

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Is Contraception Murder?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Emergency Contraception, Contraception, Pro-Life, Condoms, Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights, Personhood, Politics News

The protesters I spoke with in Wisconsin believe that "the morning-after pill" is the equivalent of murder. They even believe that the birth control pill is a form of murder.

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- Reds to Beds

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Homosexuality, Values Voters, Populism, Family Values, Evangelical Christians, Sociology, Anti-Abortion, Christian Right, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Sex Education, Politics News

There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.

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Poland: Gosc Niedzielny Magazine Fined Over Anti-Abortion Piece

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Gosc Niedzielny Fined, Alicja Tysiac, Polish Magazine Anti-Abortion, Poland, Gosc Niedzielny Magazine, Gosc Niedzielny, World News

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish court on Wednesday ordered a Roman Catholic magazine to pay a fine and apologize to a woman for likening her to a kill...

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The Republican Approach to Abortion and Health Care -- Fair or Unfair?

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Orrin Hatch, Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee, Mike Enzi, Health Care Abortion, Politics News

In his "chairman's mark" on health care reform, Max Baucus had rejected the pure pro-choice position but still included provisions that pro-lifers viewed as supporting abortion.

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Why The Catholic Bishops Matter on Health Care Reform

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholics, Abortion, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Obama Health Care, Politics News

While some have chided me for caring too much about what the Bishops think, Bishops matter a great deal politically when it comes to the abortion-and-health care debate.

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Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Socialized Medicine, Right Wing Attacks, Senate Finance Committee, Scare Tactics, Health Care Rationing, Death Panels, Illegal Immigrants, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

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The Truth About the Capps Amendment

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hyde Amendment, Abortion, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Health Care, H. R. 3200, Lois Capps, Capps Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rep. Lois Capps, Capps Abortion Amendment, Pro-Choice, Choice, Health Care Reform Abortion, Politics News

My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.

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