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Archive for June 12th, 2008

EMILY’s List — a Washington, D.C.-based group that raises money for female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights — celebrated its 20th anniversary on Monday at a luncheon gala, the Washington Post reports. The event featured several leading Democratic women,

U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers in 1989 during her campaign for a seat on the Dallas City Council responded positively to a questionnaire asking whether she would “actively support” a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions except when necessary to save a

The California Republican Party recently hired Gary Marx, a campaign strategist who worked on President Bush’s re-election campaign, to build support among Christian conservatives for a Nov. 8 special election ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to require abortion

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday issued a temporary stay of a federal judge’s ruling that ordered Missouri Department of Corrections officials to transport a prison inmate to an abortion clinic in the state, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The inmate —

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota officials on Wednesday said they will ask Ramsey County, Minn., District Judge David Higgs to reconsider his Oct. 6 ruling that a PPMNS clinic violated the state’s parental notification law by performing an abortion on a 17-year-old

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) on Wednesday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court brief requesting that the court strike down a state law (HB 763) that requires parental notification for minors seeking abortion, saying the measure “creates a risk to the health of New Hampshire

James Dobson - founder of Focus on the Family and against abortion rights — said in a transcript of his syndicated radio show released on Tuesday that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove did not tell him how Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers might rule on abortion-related

U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent late last month dismissed a lawsuit filed by abortion-rights advocates challenging the sale of “Choose Life” license plates in Ohio, the Associated Press reports. The judge found that the court lacked jurisdiction because the funds raised by license

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and California Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides (D) announced on Monday their opposition to a Nov. 8 special election ballot initiative, Proposition 73, that would amend the state constitution to require abortion providers to notify the parents

New Hampshire House Speaker Douglas Scamman (R) on Friday abruptly withdrew his support for a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a state law (HB 763) requiring parental notification for minors seeking abortion, the Nashua Telegraph reports. Scamman last week said he had