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O.C. hospital that halted elective abortions targeted for protest
Demonstrators said they will gather Thursday outside a prominent Newport Beach hospital to protest its decision to halt elective abortions. Hoag Hospital’s decision was announced after it partnered with a Catholic healthcare provider, though...
Tags: Family Planning, Social Issues, Planned Parenthood, Hospitals and Clinics, Finance
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Led by Republicans, House passes measure to limit abortions
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives passed legislation to enact stringent restrictions on abortion Tuesday, acting on an issue championed by social conservatives in the Republican majority and inviting a possible new challenge to...
Tags: Trent Franks, U.S. Senate, White House, Todd Akin, Abortion Issue
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Abortion-rights activists, NOW plan to protest at O.C. hospital
A coalition of women's groups is planning to protest an Orange County hospital's recent decision to stop performing elective abortions. Demonstrators from the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the League of Women...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Child Abuse, Abusive Behavior
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Democrats seek to avoid repeat of 2010 loss in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another Massachusetts special-election debacle, Democrats are pulling out all the stops for Rep. Edward J. Markey in the contest to keep the Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in...
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Gun Control, Elections, Political Candidates, Personal Weapon Control
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New abortion rules assume women are really stupid
The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...
Tags: Trent Franks, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Mike Lee, Social Issues, Republican Party
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Planned Parenthood cases
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to the campaign of abortion opponents to “defund” Planned Parenthood. Without comment, the justices turned away Indiana’s defense of a 2011 law that would ban all Medicaid funds...
Tags: Judges, Health Insurance, Family Planning, Social Issues, Trials
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Supreme Court rejects ban on funding Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to allow Indiana to block Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood clinics because they perform abortions. Without comment, the high court let stand decisions by a federal judge in Indiana and the U.S....
Tags: Laws, Judges, Health Insurance, Family Planning, Social Issues
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PASSINGS: Dr. Henry Morgentaler
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, 90, an abortion rights activist who helped overturn Canada's abortion law 25 years ago, died Wednesday at his Toronto home, according to Carolyn Egan, director and founding member of the Ontario Coalition of Abortion Clinics....Tags: Laws, Social Issues, Montreal (Canada), Canada, Hospitals and Clinics
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Convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell gets third life sentence
PHILADELPHIA — Convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby he described as so big it could “walk to the bus.” Gosnell, 72, was convicted Monday of first-degree...
Tags: Laws, Sheldon Adelson, Ariel Castro, Punishment, Judges
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Convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is spared death penalty
PHILADELPHIA — Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic, agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and now faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. The...
Tags: Laws, Abortion Issue, Punishment, Prescription Drugs, Murder
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Arizona abortion ban struck down
SAN FRANCISCO — Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in a medical emergency was struck down by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the court said the law violated a woman's...Tags: Jan Brewer, Social Issues, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Letters: Missed chances to stop Kermit Gosnell
Re "The Kermit Gosnell verdict," Editorial, May 15 The Times is correct: Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell's operation was clearly outside the bell curve of normal abortion clinic procedures. Nevertheless, it does make one wonder why the state of...Tags: Politics, Kermit Gosnell, Freedom of the Press
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