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NEWS ABOUT: abortion rights

abortion rights stories: 64 news summaries

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Giuliani Will Come Out As Pro-Choice

No more vacillating: Rudy will test GOP will by backing abortion rights

May 10, 07 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani will cut the embarrassing equivocation and declare himself  in favor of abortion rights in the coming days, reports the New York Times. The GOP frontrunner, who's drawn flak for trying to explain away his support for abortion in his mayoral days, will risk alienating the conservative portion of... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • abortion • Republican • presidential campaign • abortion rights • pro life • pro choice • Republican presidential primaries • Election 2008 • presidential election

In Brazil, Pope Talks Tough
On Abortion

Benedict makes first visit to world's largest Catholic population

May 9, 07 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict brought the Catholic Church's stern anti-abortion message to Brazil today, weeks after Mexico City legalized the practice and as Brazil faintly contemplates doing the same. The Pope is on his first trip to Latin America—the fastest-expanding corner of his flock, but also one of the most precarious—... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • abortion rights • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Catholicism

Rudy Backed Planned Parenthood

Donations in '90s may spell trouble
for GOP candidate

May 8, 07 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani donated to Planned Parenthood, the country's leading abortion provider and a prominent abortion-rights advocate, at least six times in the 1990s, according to public tax returns. Giuliani has walked a thin line during his campaign for the Republican nomination, maintaining that he personally opposes abortion but supports a... More »

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Mitt Romney • Rudy Giuliani • abortion • abortion rights • Planned Parenthood • Election 2008

Abortion Ship
To Sail Again

Dutch vessel offers offshore procedures
in countries where abortion is illegal

Apr 25, 07 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "abortion ship" is returning to international waters after a three-year hiatus, offering early-term procedures to women whose countries ban them. The Dutch nonprofit Women on Waves will distribute abortion pills to women up to seven weeks pregnant on the ship, which was prevented from docking in Lisbon in... More »

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abortion • hospitals • abortion ship • Women on Waves • abortion rights • women's rights

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