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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: Rick Snyder, Abortion, Politics, Executive Branch, Government
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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: Lawyers, Prosecution, Criminal Laws, Laws, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: FBI, Kermit Gosnell, Hospitals and Clinics, Abortion, Murder
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Minn. governor to sign bill allowing gay marriage
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — With marriages to be available for Minnesota's gay couples starting Aug. 1, Duluth residents Gary Anderson and Gary Boelhower are getting ready to do something that seemed impossible when they started dating three years ago:...
Tags: Minority Groups, Don Lee, Democratic Party, Elections, Executive Branch
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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: Family Planning, Washington, DC, New York City, Prosecution, Elections
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Abortion, Executive Branch, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lawyer: Pa. abortion clinic no 'house of horrors'
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The description of a shuttered abortion clinic as a "house of horrors" is a "political press fabrication," a lawyer for a doctor charged with killing four babies allegedly born alive there said Monday. Authorities say Dr....
Tags: Lawyers, Murder, Prosecution, Woodbridge, Judges
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South Bend animal control director fired
South Bend's Animal Care and Control is headed in a new direction, including a change in leadership. The director, Gary Libby, was fired earlier this week after 17 years with the department. The city's communication director wouldn't say why Libby was...
Tags: Euthanasia
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A risk including gay partners in immigration bill?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated at being left out of an immigration overhaul, gay rights groups are pushing to adjust a bipartisan Senate bill to include gay couples. But Democrats are treading carefully, wary of adding another divisive issue that...Tags: Washington, DC, Human Rights, John Hoeven, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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5 Indiana bishops set for Notre Dame poverty summit
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Indiana's five Roman Catholic bishops are scheduled to attend a daylong conference at the University of Notre Dame that will seek to find ways to reduce poverty and ease the suffering it causes. Organizers say the Indiana...Tags: Catholic Charities USA, Relief and Aid Organizations, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Poverty
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Purdue probes possible hate crime after protest
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University police were investigating a possible hate crime Tuesday stemming from a protest march over racial tension the day before. A placard left as part of a display at a building housing university...
Tags: Minority Groups, Justice and Rights, Colleges and Universities, Hate Crimes, Purdue University
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3 murder charges against Pa. abortion doc tossed
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider whose clinic was called a "house of horrors," apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence from prosecutors that the...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Kermit Gosnell, Lawyers, Abortion, Murder
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