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(Newser) - The ex-wife of the man suspected in yesterday’s fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion doctor says Scott Roeder underwent a mental evaluation and that, though he didn’t consider himself unstable, “everyone else did.” Lindsey Roeder says Scott’s views on abortion were so fierce she stopped... More »

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 Police Arrest 
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 Abortion Doc 

Obama 'shocked and outraged' by killing

May 31, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Wichita, Kan., have arrested a 51-year-old male suspect in the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, who was gunned down today as he walked into church, the Wichita Eagle reports. Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred did not name the suspect but did say other agencies, including the FBI,... More »

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abortion • Wichita • church shootings • shooting • pro-life • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

Abortion Rights Groups Uneasy With Sotomayor

Nominee has no track record of upholding right to choose

May 28, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Advocates of abortion rights are getting jittery about Sonia Sotomayor, who, despite a decades-long paper trail, has never issued a ruling on the right to choose. Barack Obama's nominee to replace David Souter—himself famous for surprising his pro-life supporters by upholding Roe v. Wade—was raised Catholic and is... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • abortion rights • Roe v. Wade • US Supreme Court • Feminist Majority • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - Jerry Falwell’s conservative Christian Liberty University has suspended the student Democratic Club for supporting candidates “directly contrary to the mission” of the school, the Lynchburg News Advance reports. Virginia Democrats are up in arms. “I urge the leadership of Liberty University to reverse this attack on the... More »

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abortion • free speech • Tim Kaine • Jerry Falwell • Liberty University • Virginia • Democratic Party • Democratic club

(Newser) - In this tough economy, requests for long-term contraceptives and abortions have spiked at family planning clinics, reports the Los Angeles Times. Planned Parenthood of LA County has seen its caseload jump 15% in just a year, and requests for IUDs nearly doubled in the first quarter compared to a year... More »

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reproductive rights • abortion • contraception • Planned Parenthood • birth control • contraceptive • economy • family planning • intrauterine device • IUD

OPINION

 A Win for Obama, 
 Moderate Catholics 

President's Notre Dame speech was radical and conservative: Dionne

May 18, 09 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion opponents protested and pro-life students skipped, but Barack Obama's Notre Dame commencement address was at once "the most radical and the most conservative speech of his presidency," writes Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne. The president refused to indulge the protesters' desire to "reignite the culture wars,... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Catholic Church • Notre Dame • Catholics • commencement speech • pro-life • culture wars • anti-abortion activists

(Newser) - Speaking amid the swirl of controversy as his pro-choice views and the pro-life values of a Catholic university collided, President Obama today called for "open minds" and "fair-minded words" in Notre Dame's debate surrounding abortion, reports the AP. Amid heckles and students booing hecklers, Obama faced the treacherous... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Notre Dame • Catholics • commencement speech • political protest

OPINION

Anti-Abortion
'Extremists' Got
Nothing on Prez

Zealous Notre Dame protests will further
hurt their cause

May 17, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Randall Terry and other “Catholic extremists” will lead protests against President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame today—but their anti-abortion zealotry will only continue to hurt their cause, writes Frances Kissling in Salon. “The idea that anything goes in fighting abortion died” in the ‘90s when... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • protests • Catholicism • Notre Dame • bishop • protesters • President Obama

Gay Marriage Is New GOP Litmus Test for Supremes

Same-sex unions replace abortion debate as heated issue

May 17, 09 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion has long been the hot-button issue at Supreme Court confirmations—but this year, gay marriage is taking over, conservatives say.  Senate Republicans believe that questioning over the matter could be the new litmus test to help reveal a candidate's overall philosophy, reports the Washington Post. “It may... More »

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gay rights • abortion • gay marriage • Senate • abortion rights • justice • debate • US Supreme Court

(Newser) - Students at Notre Dame upset that President Obama will deliver today's commencement address began an all-night prayer vigil Saturday night, reports AP. Earlier, campus police arrested 19 anti-abortion protesters—none of them students—and charged them with trespassing, notes CNN. The invitation to pro-choice Obama has raised a ruckus at... More »

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abortion • Notre Dame • Catholic • commencement speech • President Obama

ANALYSIS

Bishops Scorn Obama, but Pope Is a Fan

The Vatican takes
softer stance on
Notre Dame debate

May 16, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - While conservative Catholics rage over President Obama's upcoming commencement speech at Notre Dame, one man has remained silent: the Holy Father. Indeed, American Catholic leaders and the Pope have staked out dramatically different positions from the Obama administration's, Amy Sullivan observes in Time. Yet the Vatican’s response to the... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Notre Dame • bishop • Roman Catholic Church

Americans Shift to the Right on Abortion: Poll

Majority call themselves 'pro-life' for first time in survey's history

May 15, 09 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - For the first time in 15 years, a majority of Americans identified themselves as “pro-life” on the issue of abortion, a Gallup poll finds. In a drastic shift from just a year ago, 51% say they’re pro-life, 42% pro-choice, after a 50%-44% split in favor of pro-choice in... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • women • abortion rights • Protestants • Catholics • pro-life • Gallup poll

OPINION

Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Not even 'conservative issue' for older generation: Goodman

May 15, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe: The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Arlen Specter • Barry Goldwater • pro life • pro choice • Colin Powell • conservatism • conservatives • Republicans

OPINION

Pro-Life Votes Are Obama's First Target in Culture War

Gay rights will come later, when it's easier: Douthat

May 12, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats pushed Barack Obama into the White House hoping he could end the culture wars—and when they say “end,” they mean “win,” writes Ross Douthat in the New York Times. Obama’s strategy: “Engage on abortion, and punt on gay rights.” Though he... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • abortion • gay marriage • pro-life • culture wars • anti-abortion activists • Election 2012 • President Obama

(Newser) - Bristol Palin's campaign to preach birth control with a baby at home again proves what Meghan McCain has always known: Republicans don't "get" sex. "God forbid anyone talk realistically about life experiences and natural, sexual instincts. Nope, the answer is always abstinence," she writes in her Daily... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • birth control • birth control pill • abstinence • Meghan McCain • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • sexual abstinence

(Newser) - The battle for David Souter’s seat on the Supreme Court will be a pitched fight over Roe v. Wade, Cynthia Tucker writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Here’s a suggestion for a pragmatic president with excellent political instincts and the moral capacity to see the ethical quandaries... More »

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abortion • contraception • contraceptive • US Supreme Court • David Souter • Obama administration • President Obama

Swine Flu Emergency Is
a Cover-Up: Pro-Life Groups

Obama trying to push Sebelius nom through

Apr 28, 09 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Is the swine flu emergency just an Obama administration plot? Anti-abortion groups think so, noting that confirmation hearings begin today for would-be Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “Some people think that declaring a state of emergency about the flu was a political thing to push the Sebelius nomination through,”... More »

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abortion • Health and Human Services • confirmation hearings • Kathleen Sebelius • anti-abortion activists • Homeland Security • swine flu

 Student's Planned 
 Parenthood 
 Sting Raises 
 Ire on YouTube 

Woman poses as 13-year-old in undercover exposé

Apr 26, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UCLA anti-abortion activist posing as a 13-year-old girl has been running an undercover campaign against Planned Parenthood and posting results on YouTube, the Los Angeles Times reports. Lila Rose, 20, visits branches posing as a minor impregnated by a 31-year-old man, and secretly videotapes what ensues. In several cases,... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Planned Parenthood • undercover video • anti-abortion activists • statutory rape • Lila Rose

GOP Blocks Sebelius' Confirmation

She's pressed
to answer more
questions on abortion

Apr 24, 09 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will have to wait until at least next week to have a complete Cabinet after Senate Republicans blocked the immediate confirmation of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius yesterday, AP reports. A vote on the Health and Human Services Secretary nominee—whose appointment is fiercely opposed by anti-abortion groups—will... More »

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abortion • Senate • Senate Republicans • Department of Health • Kathleen Sebelius • governor • Obama administration • Cabinet secretary • Obama Cabinet • Michael Steele

(AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will allow 17-year-olds to get the "morning-after" birth control pill without a doctor's prescription. The agency said today it would not appeal a federal judge's recent order overturning restrictions imposed during the Bush administration. The judge had ruled that Bush appointees let politics, not... More »

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Bush administration • abortion • FDA • birth control • Plan B • teen pregnancy • morning after pill • abortion pill

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