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Dutch euthanasia requests on the rise
Official requests for euthanasia in The Netherlands totaled 2,331 in 2008, a 10 percent increase over the previous year.
The statistic was based on the yearly report from the European country's five regional euthanasia monitoring committees, according to a DutchNews account based on a Nos TV report May 29.
But the total number of Dutch deaths by euthanasia is probably much higher, bioethics specialist Wesley Smith said.
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P. Parenthood asks Calif. funds be restored
The country's leading abortion provider is calling on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to restore $36 million in proposed cuts to family planning funds.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America made the request of Schwarzenegger after the Republican governor proposed the cuts in response to the state's financial crisis. Planned Parenthood said no family planning funds from the government pay for abortions. Pro-life advocates, however, contend government grants for family planning free Planned Parenthood to use other money for abortion services.
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Pro-Life Groups Push For State-Level Restrictions On Access
The Washington Post on Monday examined how Pro-Life advocates are pressing state legislatures to approve measures designed to restrict access to abortion and compel women seeking the procedure to reconsider. The Post reports that the election of President Obama, who supports abortion rights, and the Democratic majority in Congress have made it less likely that there will be new federal restrictions on abortion or an overturning of Roe v. Wade. In response, Pro-Life groups have pushed to enact more state-level restrictions, such as parental consent for minors and waiting periods. According to the Post, state legislatures in 2008 considered around 400 measures to restrict abortion. Gretchen Borchelt, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, said, "The states are the battlegrounds and certainly the testing grounds of new kinds of restrictions." She added, "State legislatures can be more creative in what they're trying to push and see what works."
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Obama's Elite Agenda: Black Abortion for Profit
Speaking before Rockefeller sponsored Planned Parenthood's 'Action fund' banquet July 17th 2007, candidate Barack Obama made his public announcement that his 'first act as President' would be signing FOCA ("Freedom of Choice Act") It was. The "Freedom of Choice" act amounts to de-regulation of the abortion industry and provides free federally funded abortions on demand. Obama is that 'colored minister with social-service background and engaging personality' Sanger envisioned. Planned Parenthood's slogan last year — "why should I be punished with a baby?"– was featured in television commercial campaigns.
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More Premature Babies Surviving
Survival chances have greatly improved for premature babies, even those born extremely early, work reveals. About 70% of babies born alive between 22 and 26 weeks gestation in Sweden now survive past the age of one, largely thanks to medical intervention. But the authors say their study in the Journal of the American Medical Association does not answer the bigger ethical question over intervention. Over half of the babies that survived experienced serious health problems.
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Slain Kansas Abortionist's Clinic to Close
The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller says his Wichita, Kan., clinic will be "permanently closed."
The Tiller family says in a statement released by his attorneys on Tuesday that it is ceasing operation of the clinic and any involvement by family members in any other similar clinic.
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