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House takes up far-reaching anti-abortion bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change federal abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. The "Pain-Capable Unborn...Tags: Laws, Abortion Issue, Social Issues, Republican Party, Kermit Gosnell
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Feds to comply with morning-after pill ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The Department of Justice, in the latest...
Tags: Science and Technology, Plan B (drug), Health Treatments, Abortion Issue, Women's Health
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Planned Parenthood in Ind., Ky., to merge
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The statewide Planned Parenthood affiliates in Indiana and Kentucky will merge next month in a move aimed at expanding reproductive health care services offered by the nonprofit organization in both states. One goal...Tags: U.S. Congress, Planned Parenthood, Laws, Social Issues, Restructuring and Recapitalization
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Baby death jurors might be questioned on abortion
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Potential jurors for the trial of an Indiana woman charged with murdering her infant by eating rat poison while pregnant might be asked their thoughts on abortion. A pre-trial hearing for Bei Bei Shuai (bay bay shway) will be...
Tags: Justice System, Trials, Immigration, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Feds join Sup. Ct. in rejecting Ind. abortion law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal agency has denied Indiana's appeal of an administrative ruling barring the state from denying Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because it performs abortions, the state attorney general's office said Friday. The...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Henry J Hyde, Laws, Medicaid, Government Health Care
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RELEASE: Indiana AG responds to U.S. Supreme Court's Planned Parenthood ruling
The following is a release from the Indiana Attorney General's Office issued Tuesday morning: INDIANAPOLIS – Today the United States Supreme Court announced that it would not hear the State of Indiana’s appeal in the legal challenge to...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Laws, Medicaid, Government Health Care, Abortion Issue
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Board OKs petition form for abortion proposal
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion group seeking to ban Michigan health insurance plans from covering abortions without a supplemental policy cleared an early hurdle Wednesday in its effort to take the proposal to voters, even without Republican...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Incest, Rick Snyder, Elections, Voting
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Michigan proposal bans insurance coverage of abortion
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A citizen-led measure would prohibit Michigan health insurance plans from covering elective abortion unless individuals or businesses buy a supplemental policy. A group called No Taxes for Abortion Insurance soon plans to...
Tags: Insurance, Rick Snyder, Government, Social Issues, Executive Branch
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Pa. abortion doctor gets third life sentence
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus." Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the...
Tags: FBI, Laws, Social Issues, Hospitals and Clinics, Kermit Gosnell
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Pa. abortion clinic trial jurors break for weekend
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury is breaking for the weekend amid deliberations in the capital murder case of an abortion provider. Jurors return Monday to weigh charges that 72-year-old Dr. Kermit Gosnell killed a patient and four babies...
Tags: Justice System, Murder, FBI, Social Issues, Kermit Gosnell
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Philly abortion murder trial has national impact
For weeks, jurors in Philadelphia heard grim testimony about deaths and squalor at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic. While they listened, the murder case reverberated far beyond the courtroom, changing — at least for the moment...
Tags: Standards, Planned Parenthood, Science and Technology, Social Issues, Trials
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Pence signs bill for tighter abortion pill rules
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has signed into law a bill tightening the state's regulations on distribution of the abortion pill and clinics that provide only drug-induced abortions. The governor's office says Pence on Wednesday...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Government, Executive Branch, Social Issues, Hospitals and Clinics
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