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Calif. appeals court strikes down Arizona's ban on abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy
Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy absent a medical emergency. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated a woman's constitutionally protected right to...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Trials, Judges, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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The growing case for life
Paul GreenbergThe jurisprudence of Her Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, may be only mediocre at best, but her candor deserves the highest praise. Every few years she'll pull back the judicial curtain and tell the rest of us what...Tags: University of Chicago, U.S. Supreme Court, Kermit Gosnell, Crime, Law and Justice, Planned Parenthood
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Robert B. Reich: The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
American VoicesMany of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Health Insurance, Rivers, University of California, Berkeley, Crime, Law and Justice
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ND: US Rep criticized for commencement comments
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer is defending comments he made this month linking legalized abortion with school shootings. The North Dakota Republican during a graduation speech at the University of Mary said, "Forty years ago, the...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court
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Cardinal skips Boston College commencement because Irish prime minister's involvement
Associated PressBOSTON (AP) — Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday to protest its decision to honor Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who backs legislation to permit abortion, and O'Malley's views were echoed outside the ceremony by...Tags: Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Republic of Ireland
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Mailbag: Give teachers better seats at board meetings
Thirty-five years ago, I wrote a letter to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education arguing that the teachers' organization should have an equal place on the board dais during meetings. For those of you who have not been to a board...Tags: Abortion Issue, Social Issues, PTA, Feminism, Landforms
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Maryland abortion law is clear
There are flagrant, undefined loopholes in Maryland's abortion law. That's what letter writer Jeffrey D. Meister, director of administration and legislation for Maryland Right to Life, would have us think ("Maryland has de factor abortion on demand,"...
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Ridge abortion clinic inspection decision resonates in Gosnell case
The news that Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor, was found guilty of three counts of murdering live infants pales in comparison to the complicity of our former governor, Tom Ridge. His refusal, while governor, to allow regular...Tags: Kermit Gosnell, Social Issues, Government, Politics
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Voice of the People, May. 20
Cancer research We recently heard the revelation that Angelina Jolie had undergone preventive double mastectomy in order to lessen her chance of developing breast cancer. Her DNA carries a genetic defect in the BRCA1 gene that significantly increases her...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Chicago Cubs, National Institutes of Health, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer
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Plan B pill age change a big risk, official says
Alamogordo Daily News, N.M.The Director of the local Pregnancy Help Center spoke about the health and social risks she felt could be issues now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved selling the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B One-Step over the counter to...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Diseases and Illnesses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Birth Control, Plan B (drug)
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Conflict-ridden session could lead to more Nixon vetoes
St. Louis Post-DispatchGov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, likes to portray his relationship with the Republican-dominated Legislature as one where they work toward common goals. But Friday's conclusion of the Legislature's four-and-a-half month session magnified their differences...Tags: National Government, Health Insurance, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama
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Cuccinelli, Obenshain, Jackson are GOP nominees
The Virginian-PilotVirginia Republicans last nominated an African American for statewide office in June 1988, when they picked Maurice Dawkins of Arlington County to challenge former Gov. Chuck Robb for U.S. Senate. History repeated itself Saturday as GOP activists tapped...Tags: Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Senate, Albemarle County, Voting
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