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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: Judges, Plan B (drug), Women's Health, Family Planning, Kathleen Sebelius
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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: Hartford Equus Academy, Family Planning, Politics, Lawyers, Indiana Legislature
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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: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Family Planning, Media Industry, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC
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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: Family Planning, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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House panel rejects Michigan-run health exchange
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan House panel on Thursday rejected a proposal to create a state-run online market where people can compare and buy health insurance plans, leaving Michigan to continue down the road of teaming up with the federal...
Tags: Social Issues, Waterford, Barack Obama, Politics, Elections
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Judge: Hobby Lobby must offer morning-after pill
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.'s request to block part of the federal health care overhaul that requires the arts and craft supply company to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after and week-...
Tags: Judges, Family Planning, Politics, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Lawyers
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Indiana embraces GOP -- up to a point
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana continued its shift to the right Tuesday as voters supported Republican candidates for president and governor, but also sent a clear signal on where its embrace of conservatism ends. While GOP presidential hopeful Mitt...
Tags: George W. Bush, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar, John McCain, Parties and Movements
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Indiana Senate race a test of tea party strength
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana Senate race that saw a tea party-backed candidate defeat a political legend only to launch a firestorm with his comment that a pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended" could be a test of the movement's...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Politics, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar, Parties and Movements
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Abortion flap refocuses Indiana Senate campaign
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Seeking to capture an Indiana Senate seat Democrats haven't held for four decades, Joe Donnelly's television ads depict him as an earnest moderate while slamming his tea party-backed Senate opponent for an abortion remark that...
Tags: Politics, Tea Party Movement, Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar
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Gregg attempts to link Pence to Mourdock's 'rape' comment
South Bend TribuneFORT WAYNE -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg wasted no time in trying to tie Mike Pence to his fellow Republican Richard Mourdock's comments that a pregnancy resulting from rape is something that "God intended." Gregg opened Thursday...Tags: Politics, Libertarian Party, Energy Resources, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate
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Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Top Republicans were slow to embrace tea party-backed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after he ousted a longtime GOP senator from office. Though he eventually won their support — and money — Mourdock...
Tags: Politics, Tea Party Movement, Political Fundraising, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar
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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Political Candidates, Joe Donnelly, Richard Lugar, Parties and Movements, John Cornyn
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