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Archive for August 27th, 2008

The 2004 expansion of the… European Union — from 15 countries to 25 — has “changed the equation” on abortion rights in the region, with nine of the member nations either restricting or banning abortion, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Previously, most

Accusations in the media that black women have higher abortion rates than white women because abortion is “more aggressively marketed” toward blacks “mis[s] the point and distrac[t] from the real issue: the persistent health disparities faced by women, and men, in

A California judge on Friday ruled that information about a 15-year-old Texas girl who died of blood poisoning in 1994 after abortion-related complications can remain on the official voter guide for a parental notification ballot initiative in November, the Sacramento Bee reports.

“Divisive social issues” set to be on the ballot in several states in November — including antiabortion-related measures in California, Colorado and South Dakota and a measure to loosen stem cell research restrictions in Michigan — have begun attracting the

The “cultural battle” over abortion is “shifting” to the possible mental health effects of the procedure, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, the American Psychological Association this week at an annual conference in Boston is expected

“It’s hard to imagine anyone in Colorado touting rookie Gov. Bill Ritter (D) as vice presidential timber,” but “2,000 miles away, locked in the surrealism of the Beltway,” Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson “has done just that,” Denver

The 186-member Democratic Party Platform Committee on Saturday adopted a draft platform that states that the party “unequivocally” supports Roe v. Wade and abortion rights and also says that the party supports efforts to reduce the need for abortions through access to

HHS’ Secretary Mike Leavitt’s entry in his professional blog Thursday — which denied that draft HHS regulations would redefine several common contraceptives as abortion and allow health care workers to refuse to provide them — did not ease concerns among some

The New Republic on Friday examined how the advocacy work of groups such as Democrats for Life of America to change the Democratic Party platform on abortion is “welcomed by some Democrats as a way to broaden the party’s support,” while “others see them

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt in a Thursday entry in his professional blog said that he wants draft HHS regulations rewritten with a narrow focus on allowing health care workers to refuse to participate in procedures they find objectionable, the Wall Street Journal reports (Simon, Wall