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Wetzstein: Pro-Life Shift Not Surprising
It's rather ironic that as the most pro-choice government in U.S. history settles into its seats, a national poll finds that most Americans are pro-life. Some observers have tried to pooh-pooh this result, but it doesn't surprise me for two reasons explained below. There's no doubt that Americans intentionally elected many pro-choice politicians in 2006 and 2008. So it seems logical that Gallup pollsters would find strong support for abortion outside the voting booth, too.
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Planned Parenthood Urges Gov. Schwarzenegger to Rescind Harmful Budget Cuts to Women's
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to rescind his proposal to cut $36 million in family planning funds from the state budget. These cuts would put preventive health care and family planning at risk for countless women in California.
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Billionaire Club In Bid To Curb Overpopulation
Some of America's leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world's population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America's wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.
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UK Releases Shocking Advert To Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The UK's Health Service has released a new advertisement in an attempt to prevent teen pregnancy. The advert realistically shows a schoolgirl on a playground in labor, she is screaming surrounded by a crowd of students. It finishes with the website Hey Babe flickering across the screen. It is hoped that the shocking advert will help get the message out to teenagers, and promote the website which has lots of helpful advice on sexual issues, including contraception and abortion.
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Multiple Abortions Reaches Record High
Repeat abortions have reached a record high, figures released today reveal. One third of women who had an abortion last year were on their second, third or even eighth termination, new figures show. The statistics will fuel the debate over whether some women are using abortion as a form of contraception. In total, there were 64,715 repeat abortions in 2008, 33 per cent of the total and up from 64,230 the year before.
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Genocide Awareness Project, Abortion-Rights Protesters Clash In Red Square
The visual anti-abortion exhibit was displayed in Red Square, while abortion-rights protesters circled the project and chanted their opposition. "I'd say about 80 percent of the people just walk right on by, steal a couple of glances," said UW sophomore Marc Snyder, who organized GAP's presence on campus. "It's too hard to say if it's just apathy or [if] it's just too much to deal with all at once." GAP's methodology involves the juxta-position of graphic images of abortion with images of violence and mass killing, paired with evocative text. Some of the photographs depict Holocaust victims, lynchings and child abuse.
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Planned Parenthood On Sotomayor
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, weighs in on Pres. Obama's selection of Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring SCOTUS Justice David Souter: "This historic nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court sends a strong signal that President Obama understands the importance of ensuring that our Supreme Court justices respect precedent while also protecting our civil liberties.
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