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Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood with new abortion rule
The Trump administration is expected to move today to cut off federal funding to family health clinics that share medical facilities with or abortion providers.
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New Trump Administration Rule Will Force Doctors to Stop Saying “Abortion”
The rule, which targets Planned Parenthood, will mean more unplanned, unwanted pregnancies for poor women. By Christina Cauterucci.
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New Trump Administration Rule Will Force Doctors to Stop Saying “Abortion”
The Trump administration is planning to instate a rule that will bar recipients of federal family planning funding from educating women about abortion options, making referrals to doctors that provide abortions, or providing abortion care. Conservatives have cheered the move as a way for the federal government to partially “defund” Planned Parenthood without requiring an act of Congress.
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Trump's ban on global abortion funding has led to more abortions
Nairobi, Kenya — Health worker Elizabeth Wanjiru was walking through the narrow streets of Kenya's largest slum earlier this year when she came across two schoolboys pointing at something in a muddy ditch. As she drew closer she saw it was the remains of an aborted fetus.
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Ireland overwhelmingly votes to repeal abortion ban, exit polls project
The results followed a contentious and emotional campaign.
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Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism
Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church. The surprising landslide cemented the nation’s liberal shift at a time when right-wing populism is on the rise in Europe and the Trump administration is imposing curbs on abortion rights in the United States. In the past three years alone...
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Ireland ends abortion ban as 'quiet revolution' transforms country
Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws in a referendum that its prime minister called the culmination of a "quiet revolution" in what was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries.
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'Catholics who voted 'Yes' in abortion referendum should consider coming to confession' - Bishop
A leading bishop has called on Catholics who voted 'Yes' in the abortion referendum to "consider coming to confession". Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran said today that those who want to come to confession "will be received with the same compassion as any other penitent". When questioned by Sean O'Rourke on RTE Radio One, Bishop Doran replied; "Voting 'Yes' was a sin."
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The prescription abortion pill we could have, but don’t
Mifeprestone is offered directly to patients in places like Canada and Australia, but not in the U.S.
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In Irish abortion referendum, a powerful blow to once-invincible Church
New law by year-end could be named after Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after being refused abortion.
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Roe v Wade: Could US abortions become illegal?
As Donald Trump looks to introduce a "pro-life" judge to the US Supreme Court, 100 Women looks at what will happen to abortion laws if Roe v Wade is overturned.
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Argentina’s Senate Narrowly Rejects Legalizing Abortion
The vote in Pope Francis’ homeland was close, but women’s rights activists ultimately ran up against the power of the Catholic Church and social conservatism.
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Abortion pill at home to be legal in England
Women in England will be allowed to take an early abortion pill at home, under a government plan due to take effect by the end of the year. Currently, women ending a pregnancy in its first 10 weeks must take two pills at a clinic, 24 to 48 hours apart. Under the new plans, which will bring England into line with Scotland and Wales, the second pill can be taken at home.
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Judge strikes down Kentucky law in win for abortion clinic
In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, a federal judge struck down a Kentucky law that had put the state's last abortion clinic at risk of closing when Gov. Matt Bevin's administration cited it in a licensing fight with the facility. U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers, in a long-awaited ruling, said Friday that the two-decade-old law violates constitutionally protected due process rights. The law required Kentucky's abortion clinics to have written agreements with a hospital and an ambulance service in case of medical emergencies.
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Abortion will no longer be a crime in Queensland after historic vote
Abortion will no longer be a crime in Queensland, after state MPs voted on Wednesday night to remove the procedure from the criminal code. The historic reforms were passed in the Queensland Parliament on Wednesday night via a conscience vote, with the support of LNP members Tim Nicholls, Jann Stuckey and Steve Minnikin helping to ensure its success at the second reading and final vote.
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The Brutal Story of Jake Eakin, Child Murderer Turned Anti-Abortion Zealot
At the Spokane women’s march this year, as women paraded through the eastern Washington city in pussy hats and pink tees, a skinny, bespectacled man marched alongside, clutching a voice amplifier and brandishing a poster of a giant, bloodied fetus. “You are marching for your own personal convenience, your own personal beliefs,” the man bellowed into the amplifier. “But what about the millions of children who have been murdered by abortion since 1973?”
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Girl, 11, gives birth to rapist's child after Argentina refuses abortion
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled. The authorities ignored repeated requests for an abortion from the child, called “Lucía” to protect her identity, as well as her mother and a number of Argentine women’s right activists. After 23 weeks of pregnancy, she had to undergo a caesarean section on Tuesday. The baby is unlikely to survive.
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This bill would have ended child marriage for those under age in Idaho. The House voted it down
Under current Idaho law, 16- and 17-year-olds just need parental consent to marry. A child under age 16 can marry if a judge consents also. A bi-partisan bill led by Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, proposed setting the minimum age to marry at 16. Under the proposed law, for a 16- or 17-year-old to get married, consent of the child, parents and the court would be required.
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Doctors ‘lied to 11-year-old girl to get her to have rapist’s baby’
Full details of the horrific ordeal to which an 11-year-old girl impregnated by an elderly rapist in Argentina was subjected by doctors intent on ensuring the baby survived for religious reasons have been disclosed by campaigners acting on her behalf. The young girl, who is being called “Lucia” to protect her identity, became pregnant after being raped by her grandmother’s 65-year-old partner, who has since been arrested. She was placed under her grandmother’s care in 2015, after her two older sisters were reportedly abused by her mother’s partner.
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Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Be Subject to Life in Prison.
On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat” bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. The measure, HB 481, is the most extreme abortion ban in the country—not just because it would impose severe limitations on women’s reproductive rights, but also because it would subject women who get illegal abortions to life imprisonment and the death penalty.
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