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NEWS ABOUT: reproductive rights

reproductive rights stories: 12 news summaries
OPINION

Once a Pro-Lifer, She'll Soon Perform Abortions

Med student details what changed her mind

Jun 7, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rozalyn Farmer Love grew up Catholic, taught that abortions are categorically wrong. But the third-year medical student delved into women's health, meeting women in agonizing situations along the way, and realized that although "ending an unwanted pregnancy is a tragedy," it's far worse to deny "safe, competent... More »

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reproductive rights • abortion • women's health • abortion rights • Catholic • medical students

(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

Planned Parenthood
Offers Gift Certificates

Patients can use money toward health exams—and abortion

Nov 26, 08 3:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Planned Parenthood of Indiana is making gift certificates available for the holiday season, infuriating right-to-life groups, WISH-TV reports. Though the certificates can be used for abortion, a Planned Parenthood representative said “they really are intended for preventative health care,” like breast exams and STD tests. The hope is... More »

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reproductive rights • abortion • Planned Parenthood • Right to Life • Indiana • STD • holiday season • gift certificate

OPINION

If Roe Goes, States May Ban Cross-Border Abortions

Right states prepped to label abortion a criminal act

Sep 28, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - If John McCain wins and puts conservatives on the Supreme Court, not only could Roe v. Wade go down—states may prohibit women from crossing state lines for abortions, Linda Hirshman writes in the Washington Post. Past rulings and Constitutional interpretations don't clearly support such laws, but times have changed... More »

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reproductive rights • John McCain • abortion • abortion rights • Roe v. Wade • US Supreme Court • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Palin's on the Wrong Side of Women's History: Steinem

But her rise has its benefits, Steinem says

Sep 4, 08 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans may have thrown Sarah Palin a grand old party last night, but Americans can see through the bluster, Gloria Steinem opines in the Los Angeles Times. “This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes... More »

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reproductive rights • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Republican • feminism • Gloria Steinem • Sarah Palin

OPINION

McCain Weighs Pro-Choice
Running Mate 


Aug 19, 08 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's campaign has been pitching the idea of a pro-choice running mate to key state GOP officials around the country, reports the National Review. McCain wants to know how hostile conservative grass-roots activists would be and whether he can win their support if he selects a pro-choice VP such... More »

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reproductive rights • John McCain • abortion • Joe Lieberman • pro choice • McCain 2008 • vice presidential sweepstakes • Tom Ridge

OPINION

 Evangelicals Fall
 for Obama's Line

'Gullible' voters don't recognize 'Marxism couched in religion'

Jul 29, 08 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama talks such a good game that he may fool a sizable contingent of evangelicals into supporting him, David N. Bass writes in the right-wing American Spectator. "Unlike past Democratic presidential nominees, he's not schizoid when it comes to talking about his own faith (which, admittedly, is... More »

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religious right • reproductive rights • Barack Obama • sex education • evangelicals • abstinence • Rick Warren

Babs: Obama's Like Buttah

Longtime Clintonite says when Barack clinched nomination, switch was 'immediate'

Jul 28, 08 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton may have been her first choice, but Barbra Streisand’s switch to Barack Obama after he wrapped up the nomination was “immediate”—and she's not too keen on Clinton-backers considering crossing the aisle. In an interview with Politico, she lays into John McCain on women’s... More »

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Iraq • reproductive rights • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • veterans' benefits • Barbra Streisand • Hillary Care

 Abortion Activists
 Split Over
 Obama
 Comment 

Remarks on late-term exceptions draw ire, support 

Jul 10, 08 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A brief budge from a purely pro-choice position by Barack Obama last week drew a heavy round of responses from the reproductive-rights crowd, Politico notes. The blowback came after Obama said to a Christian magazine that health exceptions to a late-term abortion ban shouldn’t extend to women merely “... More »

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reproductive rights • Barack Obama • abortion • flip flop • NOW • NARAL

China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

Couples who abided by one-child policy can get free surgery

Jun 6, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - China will send medical teams to areas hit by last month’s earthquake to reverse sterilization procedures for couples who want to have another child, Xinhua reports. The Sichuan family planning agency is providing free surgery and counseling to couples who were once sterilized in accordance with the nation's one-child... More »

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China • reproductive rights • surgery • reproduction • family • quake • one child policy • China earthquake

U.K. Nurses Enter Abortion Battleground

Could perform early-term procedures under new reading of 40-year-old law

Mar 27, 07 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Specially trained nurses should be allowed to perform early-term surgical abortions without a doctor present, two U.K. medicos are arguing, based on a "wide interpretation" of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act. Though British nurses are currently allowed to carry out drug-induced abortions, they have been barred up to now... More »

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reproductive rights • abortion • pregnancy • health • nurses • United Kingdom • pro life • pro choice • Britain

Court Orders Abortion Access in Poland

Even where abortion is severely restricted, it must be available to women legally entitled

Mar 21, 07 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even countries that severely restrict abortion must make them available to those who are entitled to them by law, the European court of human rights ruled yesterday. A Polish mother sued because her fourth pregnancy's damage to her failing eyesight made her legally eligible for an abortion to preserve her... More »

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reproductive rights • health care • abortion • pregnancy • health • women's health • human rights • Poland • Europe

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