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My First Abortion Party
In a recent article published on AlterNet, 'My First Abortion Party', writer Byard Duncan relates his experience of attending a party thrown by his friend 'Maggie' so as to raise funds to pay for her abortion.
When I got the invite to a friend's abortion party, I thought it was a way to help her through a difficult decision. I was right and wrong.
"Have you guys heard the news?" Maggie (name changed) unwrapped the scarf from around her neck and patted her flat belly. "Preggers." It was around 30 degrees outside, and her cheeks were splashed pink from the Indiana wind.
She had discovered earlier that week, after missing a period and taking the test. "I kind of knew already.
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New Study Confirms that Pres. Obama's DC Policy Will Increase Abortions Says Dr. Alveda King
Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., commented today on a new Guttmacher Institute study that shows that in states where Medicaid pays for abortions, more poor women have abortions.
"The Guttmacher report is really just another study that confirms the obvious -- subsidized abortion means more abortions," said Dr. King. "My medical insurance paid for my 'legal abortion' in 1973. My 'free' abortion, in turn, made it all too easy for me to be an unsuspecting victim of population control."
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Appeals Court: WA Pharmacists Must Heed Order to Distribute Abortifacient Plan B Pill
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Washington pharmacists will likely have to obey a 2007 regulation forcing them to distribute the abortifacient morning-after pill, known as Plan B.
The regulation had been temporarily blocked by a Washington judge in 2007 when pharmacists who refused to distribute the pill launched a suit against the state. Today's decision overturned that of U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, who agreed with the complainants that there was reason to believe the rules violated the pharmacists' right to the freedom of conscience.
The Board of Pharmacy and the State regulations require pharmacy owners to provide the pill, and require individuals to distribute or refer elsewhere for the drug regardless of personal conviction.
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Abortion Advocacy Group Uses "Extreme Case" at UN to Punish Peru for Pro-Life Laws
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is representing a Peruvian teenager who sought an abortion after a rape and suicide attempt in a proceeding before the United Nations compliance committee tasked with overseeing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). CRR is charging that Peru violated its obligations under the treaty because the teen was unable to obtain an abortion at a public hospital.
After the girl attempted suicide by jumping off a building, CRR alleges she was denied an abortion that CRR says was medically necessary to facilitate successful spinal surgery on the now-paraplegic teen. The complaint asks the Peruvian government to acknowledge a violation of rights under CEDAW, provide her with reparations and rehabilitation, and institute measures to ensure that women can access "therapeutic" abortion.
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NIH Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ignore Public Opinion and the Human
July 7, 2009, marked a major ethical shift in United States government-funded research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented President Obama's executive order, "Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells" (March 9, 2009). The new NIH "Guidelines" authorize taxpayer funding of research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) harvested from human embryos as of July 7, 2009, or from earlier sources, both domestic and foreign, with the approval of the Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the Director.
Historically, federal funding of research on humans from which they derived no benefit has been prohibited. Now the destruction of human beings in their earliest and most vulnerable stages is promoted and funded by federal taxpayer dollars. Lengthy explanations exist as to how informed consent from the embryo donors will be obtained, and about how conflicts of interest will be handled, but no mention is made about the rights of the embryos themselves.
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Abortion Pill Used in a Quarter of U.S. Abortions
Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill."
Some experts predict the percentage of such "medical abortions," which offer more privacy than surgical termination at an abortion clinic or hospital, will rise even more due to the new study.
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