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News Video Shows Aborted Baby Photos & Protestors Outside Fox High School for Obama Visit
Around 10:00 a.m., there were several dozen people demonstrating just outside the boundaries of the Fox High School campus, where Obama will hold a town hall meeting. Some of the protestors are using portable loudspeakers, but most are carrying signs, petitions and literature. The demonstrators are voicing their opinions on a wide range of issues including: anti-war, specifically the war in Afghanistan; the government's spending of U.S. taxpayer dollars; and a large number of them are anti-abortion.
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Forced Abortions Shake Up China Wombs-For-Rent Industry
With China's rising affluence, increasing numbers of infertile couples have been seeking surrogate mothers to bear them babies. In recent years, officials have largely turned a blind eye to this underground womb-for-rent industry that defies the country's strict childbirth laws. Now, there are signs the authorities are starting to crack down by forcing some surrogate mothers to abort their fetuses.
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FDA Plan B Decision Ignites Local Debates
Following a federal judge's "directive", the Food and Drug Administration said it will now allow 17-year-olds to get the Plan B pill - commonly known as the morning after pill - without a doctor's prescription (Editor's note: Federal judges do not make law, and can not order the administrative branch of government to do anything without first usurping the authority of the president (abuse of power) and violating the "Separation Of Powers Doctrine." The FDA should have told the federal judge to stick his opinion underneath the house where the sun don't shine -- but it did not. Instead, the Obama administration decided on its own to push the killer Plan B abortion pill on minor girls without a doctor's prescription. Obama! is the one to blame for this (un-Constitutional) criminal activity). The emergency contraception contains a high dose of birth control drugs that does not interfere with an established pregnancy, and works most effectively when the first of two pills is taken within 24 hours after intercourse. The FDA's decision has sparked an ongoing debate between two northern Nevada organizations with very different perspectives.
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Obama Defends Support for Abortions
Obama says abortion is both a moral and ethical issue, and abortion rights backers make a mistake when they consider it solely a matter of women's freedom. Obama told a prime-time news conference Wednesday that he supports abortion rights because he thinks a woman is in a better position to make a very personal choice than a member of Congress or the president. He said he would like to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, especially teen pregnancies that he said have increased. Obama said the Freedom of Choice Act in Congress, a bill that would protect a woman's right to have a child or end a pregnancy, was not his highest legislative priority.
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Antiabortion-Rights Groups Oppose Draft Legislation Allowing Research Into Therapeutic Cloning
The "next big biomedical research debate" in Congress could be about whether to allow federal funding of research into "somatic cell nuclear transfer," also known as therapeutic cloning, to produce stem cells, CQ Today reports. President Obama's executive order easing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research directed NIH to determine guidelines for the research. The draft guidelines issued by NIH restrict federal funding to research involving embryonic stem cell lines derived from unused embryos created for fertility treatments and willingly donated by patients who have given written consent. NIH added that embryonic stem cells derived from other sources, including cloning, will not be eligible for federal funding.
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