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Archive for June 20th, 2008

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) on Thursday signed legislation… (HF 139) that will require doctors to tell women seeking abortion after 20 weeks gestation that fetuses might feel pain during the procedure and offer them the option of fetal anesthesia, the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Statehealthfacts.org - the… Kaiser Family Foundation’s online source for state-by-state and national data on demographics, health and health policy — has added 2005 data by state and region on the use of state funds to cover abortions beyond the federal Medicaid requirement

The US abortion rate — which has been declining since 1990 — continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, and the number of abortions estimated to have been performed in the country in 2002 is the lowest since 1976, according to a… report conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute,

The Mexican antiabortion group Culture of Life on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit in the Mexican Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the country’s new law requiring emergency contraception to be made available at 19,000 government health facilities nationwide,

The number of abortions performed in Minnesota in 2004 dropped to the lowest level in 30 years, according to a… report published on Tuesday by the state Department of Health, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports (Stassen-Berger, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 7/13). Physicians in the state

A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Portland, Ore, on Tuesday heard arguments in an appeal filed by antiabortion advocates who were ordered to pay more than $100 million in damages for printing the photos, names and addresses of abortion providers on Old West-style

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Dr Beverly Malone said:

“The RCN welcomes the fact that doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) conference have voted against reducing the upper limit on abortion from 24 weeks. RCN members working in sexual health and

The New York Times on Wednesday examined Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-NY) changing views on certain issues, including abortion, as she begins her re-election campaign for the Senate. Since she was first lady of Arkansas in the 1980s, Rodham Clinton has “paired her support for

A Virginia state delegate is asking the state’s candidates for governor and lieutenant governor if they would support legislation to reinstate a ban on all abortion in the state, the… Washington Times reports. Delegate Robert Marshall (R) is testing support for a theoretical bill

A three-judge panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a decision by Lincoln, Neb-based US District Judge Richard Kopf to strike down a federal ban on so-called “partial-birth” abortion because the law does not include an exception to protect a pregnant