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Dr. C. Everett Koop, influential surgeon general, dies at 96
WASHINGTON — Dr. C. Everett Koop, who as U.S. surgeon general in the 1980s led high-profile campaigns to highlight the dangers of smoking and to mobilize the nation against an emerging AIDS epidemic, has died. He was 96. Koop died Monday at his...
Tags: AIDS, Abortion Issue, Epidemics and Plagues, Social Issues, Obituaries
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Supreme Court justices: The case for hanging it up
Over the next three months, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to end affirmative action, whether to overturn part of one of the most important civil rights laws in our country's history (the Voting Rights Act) and whether gays and...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Abortion Issue, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Goldberg: Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their...
Tags: Avatar (movie), All in the Family (tv program) , Abortion Issue, Cinema Industry, James Cameron
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New Mexico medical board clears abortion doctor of negligence
An Albuquerque doctor, accused by an antiabortion group of gross negligence for her handling of a late-term abortion, was exonerated by New Mexico officials. The New Mexico Medical Board cleared Dr. Shelley Sella of any impropriety in how she handled...
Tags: George Tiller, Activism, Joe Arpaio, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Abortion Issue
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Abortion protest marks 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
Opponents of abortion demonstrated in Washington on Friday, marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that decriminalized abortion. The demonstration began in the cold at about noon, with perhaps hundreds of people...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Social Issues, Christianity, Ceremonies, Arts and Culture
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California lawmaker wants to expand abortion access
PolitiCalA state lawmaker has revived a proposal to allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives to perform routine abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy as a way of expanding access to the procedure across California. Only doctors... -
Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'
Dear Abby: "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?" "Absolutely nothing," she replied. The wry answer from Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips...
Tags: AIDS, Feminism, Substance Abuse, Pauline Friedman Phillips, June Allyson
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Roe vs. Wade at 40: Pew poll finds abortion not a key issue
Abortion rights, once a key political wedge issue dividing society, are now so accepted that only 1 in 5 people call it critical and a majority of those younger than 30 don’t know that Roe vs. Wade was the Supreme Court case that helped make...
Tags: James Holmes, Protestantism, Social Issues, Elections, Politics
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Hobby Lobby, defying health law, refuses to cover morning-after pill
After losing a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court, craft chain Hobby Lobby will defy a federal healthcare mandate requiring employers to provide its workers with insurance that covers emergency contraceptives. The Oklahoma City-based chain, which...
Tags: Family Planning, Crime, Law and Justice, Hobbies, Lobbying, Health Treatments
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Same-sex marriage meets the high court
On Nov. 6, for the first time in American history, a majority of voters in a state — indeed, in three states — approved same-sex marriage. On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on the issue, granting review in cases challenging...
Tags: Gay Rights, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Letters: 40 years of Roe vs. Wade
Re "Roe vs. Wade turns 40," Editorial, Jan. 22 Although there will probably never be a consensus on abortion, it is also clear that two things must happen to advance the debate. First, pro-lifers must accept that all women deserve easy and...
Tags: Family Planning, Abortion Issue, Planned Parenthood, Social Issues
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Abortion Issue, U.S. Senate, Greenland, Mike Lee
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