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Ultrasound mandate dropped from Indiana abortion bill
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A requirement that clinics offering the abortion pill perform ultrasounds on women seeking the drug was dropped Wednesday by Indiana legislators considering a broader bill aimed at tightening regulations on such clinics. Anti-...Tags: Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Litigation and Regulation, Crime, Law and Justice, Family Planning
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Decisions in same-sex marriage cases anxiously awaited
South Bend TribuneLegal scholars and pundits learned last year that trying to predict how the Supreme Court will decide a case after hearing arguments is risky. However, activists on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate remain clear about the stakes riding on the...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, Laws, International Law
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Professor: Community college has culture of racism
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Mott Community College professor and a black secretary say there's a culture of racism that's become prevalent at the Flint school. The Flint Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15ONiUO ) Beverly Bliesath, a business management...Tags: Education, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Same-sex marriage: Which Supreme Court case is more important?
CBS NewsIn two different cases this week, the Supreme Court will consider the powerful question of what it means to be married. On Tuesday, the court will hear arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry -- a case considering the constitutionality of California's gay...Tags: Gay Rights, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), University of California, Los Angeles, Arts and Culture, Civil Rights
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Medicaid expansion in trouble in Michigan Legislature
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Rep. Matt Lori found himself in an unusual position when shepherding through a $15.3 billion health budget that pays for Medicaid, the health insurance program for the needy. The Republican chairman of the House health budget...Tags: Randy Richardville, Michigan Legislature, Medicaid, Crime, Law and Justice, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Incorporated
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Pa. abortion doctor's murder trial starts
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors opened the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider by telling jurors he routinely performed late-term abortions by forcing women into labor and then killing their babies. Dr. Kermit Gosnell faces the...
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Tribal same-sex bill OK'd, male couple marries
HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. (AP) — With an exchange of rings and a kiss, two men became spouses Friday during a ceremony at a northern Michigan Indian reservation after the tribal chairman signed a measure approving same-sex marriage in a state where it's...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Navy, Sage, Marriage
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Mich. tribal chairman to OK same-sex marriage, wed 2 men
HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. (AP) — The chairman of a northern Michigan Indian tribe says he'll sign a same-sex marriage bill Friday, then preside at the wedding of two men. The legislative body of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians voted 5-4...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Family, Gays and Lesbians
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Indiana House backs tighter abortion pill rules
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A bill that would tighten state laws on distribution of the abortion pill and require clinics that provide only drug-induced abortions to meet the same standards as clinics that perform surgical abortions was approved by a wide...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Abortion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Judge: Teacher can sue Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese in IVF case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an Indiana woman who says a Catholic diocese fired her from her teaching job because she had in vitro fertilization. U.S. District Judge Robert Miller cleared the...
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Hot issues at Indiana Statehouse
A look at the status of major legislation before the Indiana General Assembly this year: BIG-TICKET ITEMS — STATE SPENDING: The House approved a two-year, $30 billion budget that increases school spending by 2 percent the first year and 1...Tags: Substance Abuse, Mitch Daniels, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion
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Mich. club settles atheist discrimination suit
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York-based atheist organization that accused a Michigan country club of discrimination says the lawsuit has been settled. The Center for Inquiry says Tuesday that the Wyndgate Country Club of Rochester Hills, Mich.,...Tags: Discrimination, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Litigation, Clubs and Associations
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