Posts Tagged ‘abortion’

‘Doonesbury’ adds fire to Texas abortion rule debate

Conservatives are not laughing at “Doonesbury” comic strips this week — and some people in the country won’t even be able to find out why.

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Santorum blasts Obama’s motives on power, abortion (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, says the Pledge of Allegiance during a campaign stop at the Maricopa County Lincoln Day Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP – A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president’s competence but his motives and even his Christian values.


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Va. House GOP muscles through abortion curbs (AP)

Del. Robert Marshall, R-Prince William, holds a paper as he talks about his Personhood bill as Del. David Ramadan, R-Loudon, bottom, listens during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.  Legislation that says human life begins at conception advanced Monday in the Virginia House of Delegates, which also rejected an amendment aimed at clarifying that birth control would remain legal.   (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP – A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, including one that would all but outlaw the procedure in the state by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite.


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Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight (AP)

Karen Handel speaks during an interview in Atlanta Tuesday,  Feb. 7, 2012. Handel announced earlier her resignation as vice president for public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity.  (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP – A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly to multiple fronts on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


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Abortion row for Komen breast cancer

Two of the nation’s top women’s health organizations were at war Wednesday after the foundation behind the ubiquitous pink ribbon of breast cancer awareness yanked funding for Planned Parenthood.

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Perry: Romney abortion flip was for ‘convenience’ (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Personhood USA forum in Greenville, S.C., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP – Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that Mitt Romney changed his position on legalized abortion out of political convenience, one of the sharpest allegations leveled yet in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary.


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2 abortion providers charged with murder in Md. (AP)

This undated photo provided by the Salt Lake County Jail shows Dr. Nicola Riley. Riley and Dr. Steven Brigham, two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions, have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state's viable fetus law, authorities said Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Salt Lake County Jail)AP – Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus.


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