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Taxpayer Funded Abortion Referrals
Along with a "universal health care" experiment in the form of the taxpayer-funded Ennis Regional Medical Center and the Ennis Independent School District's Early Childhood Center for students' babies (EISD property taxes pay for that one) nearby, the City of Ennis is about to welcome a labratory in population control: Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was approved by city officials and the elected representatives (the city commission) voters helped elect to office to be placed in dangerous proximity to the Early Childhood facility and the hospital. This paper Defends Truth and Freedom, and the truth is, life is a gift and abortions destroy life.
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Abortion Clinic 911 Emergency Calls: 'No lights and sirens, please!'
This is a composite of ambulance calls to Aware Woman abortion clinic in Melbourne, Florida. It shows the tragic results of botched abortions. Countless women have been injured at Aware Woman and other abortion clinics throughout the United States where abortion is legal but not safe.
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Obama Calls for Universal Access to Abortion at UN Meeting
At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil. The US proposal calls for "universal access" to "sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning." The document under consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva.
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Alaska Proposal That Requires Parental Consent for Abortion Is Certified
A proposal to require parental notice or consent before a female younger than 18 could have an abortion was certified Thursday by the state so that its backers can seek enough signatures to get the initiative before voters next year. The proposed law would require the parental notice or consent except in these circumstances: -- The teen submits a notarized statement that she is a victim of abuse by a parent or guardian. -- The teen persuades a court to let her bypass notification. -- A doctor declares a medical emergency. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell certified the initiative. If its backers get at least 32,734 Alaskans from across the state to sign the initiative in the next year, the proposal will go on a statewide ballot for a public vote next year.
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Parents Denied Abortion Clinic Records
The Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a request from the parents of a girl who obtained an abortion for access to records from the clinic. The parents filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio in Cincinnati after their 14-year-old daughter's abortion in 2004. They say the clinic ignores evidence of sexual abuse, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. The girl allegedly was impregnated by her 21-year-old soccer coach, who posed as her father to get her an abortion and gave his "consent," the Dispatch said.
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SC GOP Official Sues City over Abortion Protest
A state Republican Party official has sued the city of Orangeburg for a second time, saying a police officer prevented him from participating in an abortion protest. The (Orangeburg) Times and Democrat reports that the Rev. Charles Butler's lawsuit involved a January protest about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's stance on abortion. The lawsuit says an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer told Butler, the second vice chairman of the S.C. Republican Party, that he couldn't protest without a permit.
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Anger At Abortion Increase
Sexual health campaigners have blasted government policy after Wales' teen abortion rate rose for the third year running. Latest figures from the Department of Health show the total number of abortions for under 18s across the nation rose from 894 in 2005 to 1,048 in 2008. Vivienne Rose, a clinic manager for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) – which runs Wales' only dedicated abortion clinic in Cardiff – said: "The Assembly Government (WAG) have all these initiatives but, at the core, what is happening?
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