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Planned Parenthood
Offers Gift Certificates

Patients can use money toward health exams—and abortion

WISH-TV 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 that philanthropists will buy the certificates and donate them to patients in need. More »

More about:  abortion • Indiana • STD • reproductive rights • Planned Parenthood • holiday season • Right to Life

OPINION

If Roe Goes, States May Ban Cross-Border Abortions

Right states prepped to label abortion a criminal act

Washington Post Washington Post 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 since 1972, and many top legal minds "believe that this is something states probably can do," writes Hirshman. More »

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

OPINION

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

But her rise has its benefits, Steinem says

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times 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 everything most other women want and need,” the feminist writes. More »

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

OPINION

McCain Weighs Pro-Choice
Running Mate 


National Review National Review 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 as ex-homeland security secretary Tom Ridge. More »

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

OPINION

 Evangelicals Fall
 for Obama's Line

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

American Spectator 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 a clash between the bizarre and the watered-down)," Bass writes. More »

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

Babs: Obama's Like Buttah

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

Politico Politico 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 rights, veterans’ benefits, and Iraq, says Obama should take a good look at Clinton's health care plan, and warns that racism will be a factor this fall. More »

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

 Abortion Activists
 Split Over
 Obama
 Comment 

Remarks on late-term exceptions draw ire, support 

Politico Politico 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 “feeling blue.” NOW’s president criticized Obama for playing into the "wingnut argument"—that women have abortions for frivolous reasons. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • abortion • flip flop • reproductive rights • NOW • NARAL

China to Reverse Sterilization for Quake Parents

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

Xinhua (China) Xinhua (China) 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 policy. About 7,000 of the earthquake's fatalities were the lone children in their families. More »

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

U.K. Nurses Enter Abortion Battleground

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

Daily Telegraph (UK) Daily Telegraph (UK) 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 from running surgical procedures.  More »

More about:  Great Britain • health • United Kingdom • abortion • pregnancy • nurses • reproductive rights • pro choice • pro life

Court Orders Abortion Access in Poland

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

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) 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 health, but a doctor refused her anyway. More »

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

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