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Wisconsin Right to Life Presents Sarah Palin at Wisconsin Exposition Center, November 6
On Friday, November 6, 2009, Wisconsin Right to Life presents Sarah Palin at the Wisconsin Exposition Center, Hall B, State Fair Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Purchase main event tickets online only at www.SarahPalinEvent.com
Download the event flier here: www.wrtl.org/pdf/PalinPoster.pdf
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Japan Times: Abortion Still Key Birth Control
People may be surprised to know abortion has been legal in Japan since 1949, more than a decade earlier than in other industrialized countries. In subsequent years, abortion became socially accepted to the point that Japan drew international criticism for attracting foreigners seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Since the turn of the 21st century, around 300,000 abortions have been conducted in Japan each year.
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Florida Plan Advises Hospitals to Bar Some Patients In Event of Severe Flu Pandemic
Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases. The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.
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Pro-Life Campaigners Compare Abortion to Genocide
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform had a display of anti-abortion images and pamphlets on Pedestrian Walkway outside of Hodges Library Oct. 14. The images showed first, second and third trimester aborted fetuses, as well as images of genocide and mass murders. Gene, a volunteer for Bio-Ethical Reform, said the goal in showing the abortion pictures on a college campus is to educate. "Abortion is an evil threaded into the fabric of society," Gene said. "My goal is to educate young people and help them see who this child is that is being aborted."
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West Shore Student Will Be Allowed to Wear Pro-Life T-shirt After Federal Judge Agreement
A federal judge approved an agreement Monday between the parent of a middle school student and the West Shore School District that will allow the student to wear an anti-abortion T-shirt to school. Officials at Crossroads Middle School told the student to turn inside out his homemade T-shirt, which read "Abortion is not Healthcare," the day President Barack Obama addressed students nationwide.
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'Personhood' Amendment Goes to Judiciary Committee in Michigan
Both Republicans and Democrats have signed on to a resolution effectively outlawing abortion in Michigan. It is now going into a judiciary committee. It's a controversial topic that has both sides heated and others silent on the issue. The House Joint Resolution II (2009) includes language that says "With respect to the fundamental and inalienable right to life, the word "person" applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, gender, health, function, condition of dependency, including physical or mental dependency, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of their biological development, including fertilization." This "personhood" amendment would define life as beginning at conception and essentially ban abortion in Michigan.
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