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A Nebraska doctor said Wednesday he will perform third-term abortions in Kansas after the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller, but declined to say whether his plans include opening a new facility or offering the procedure at an existing practice. Dr. LeRoy Carhart declined to discuss his plans in detail but insisted 'there will be a place in Kansas for the later second- and the medically indicated third-trimester patients very soon.' Carhart spoke a day after Tiller's family announced his Wichita clinic was permanently shutting its doors.
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Two bills in the Legislature, crafted with the help of Planned Parenthood, would change the way that sex education is taught in the state's public schools. One would require public schools to notify parents if the sex-education curriculum teaches only abstinence. Parental notification is required if schools teach about contraception. Another bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Chelsa Wagner of Beechview, would require public schools to teach students how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. It requires that teachers note abstinence is the only sure way to prevent both.
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Two men who burned down an Albuquerque abortion office have been ordered to serve more than three years in prison and to pay every penny of the nearly $800,000 in damage they caused. On Dec. 6, 2007, Sergio Baca, then 22, and Chad Altman, then 26, broke a window of Dr. Boyd's office, poured gasoline inside and lit a match destroying the office. The motive was revealed to be a woman carrying Baca's unborn child was scheduled to have an abortion at the clinic the next day. Baca and Altman were arrested 11 days later after investigators found a glove at the scene that had Altman's DNA in it. Baca's roommate also reported that Baca smelled heavily of gasoline that night.
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New York's Empire State Stem Cell Board is expected to vote Thursday on a plan that would use state money to pay women for their eggs, which would be used for research. It would make New York the only state to tacitly endorse a cash-for-eggs scheme.
Jennifer Lahl, founder and national director of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, said called the plan a "twisted sort of logic."
"The egg donation process has well-documented risks associated with the dangerous drugs taken," she said in a statement. "Added to these dangers are the longer-term risks associated with cancers and damage to the donors' future fertility."
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As it has met with dozens of abortion-rights supporters and opponents in recent weeks to collect ideas for a "common ground" approach on abortion and related reproductive issues, the Obama administration has emphasized that it intends to avoid influencing women's decisions about whether or not to have an abortion.
According to the groups involved, the White House is looking for ways to help pregnant women who want to carry their pregnancies to term without pressuring women to make that choice. This is what Obama aides mean when they insist that they're working to "reduce the need for abortion," as opposed to reducing abortions per se. The approach absolves the White House of having to make a judgment about the propriety of abortion. It leaves that decision to individual women.
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