Groups On Both Sides Seek Clues About Kagan's Views On Abortion Rights
Groups and lawmakers on both sides of the abortion-rights debate are scouring Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's past writing for clues about her stance on the issue, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the Tribune, "With the constitutional right to an abortion apparently hanging by just one vote on the court, Kagan's record, and her demonstrated impulse to find common ground, gives pause to both sides in the abortion debate."
Both sides will look to Kagan's statements during her confirmation hearings for insight into her views on abortion rights. However, if she follows the pattern of other recent nominees, Kagan likely will not make explicit declarations of how she would handle the issue as a justice, the Tribune reports.
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The Pill: How Birth Control Pills Have Harmed Society
Elaine Tyler May planned the release of her new book in celebration of the 50th anniversary of FDA approval of the birth control pill to coincide with Mother’s Day 2010, and her article (“How the pill changed motherhood,” Opinion, May 9) connected the pill with better mothering. The truth is, the pill kills families, the pill kills women, the pill kills babies and the pill kills the environment. Since the pill was approved as a contraceptive in 1960 by the FDA, the institution of marriage has become endangered. The number of unmarried cohabitating couples has increased tenfold, from 439,000 to 4.2 million. Divorce rates have soared. Births to unmarried women have tripled. Some 1.3 million children are born out of wedlock each year.
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Ohio Legislation Would Bar State & Federal Subsidized Health Insurance from Funding Abortion
Three Cincinnati-area lawmakers introduced state legislation Monday that would prohibit health insurance coverage for abortion if it's subsidized with state or federal tax money. Identical bills were introduced Monday by state Sen. Gary Cates, a Republican from West Chester, and in the Ohio House as co-sponsored by Republican Reps. Joseph Uecker of Loveland and Danny Bubp of West Union.
Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio - an organization that supports abortion rights - called the proposal extremely restrictive because it would keep women from buying health insurance that includes coverage for abortion once the federal health reform plan takes effect in 2014.
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New York Midwives Lose 'Right' to Deliver Babies at Home
As residents of the world's consumer capital, New Yorkers can have anything delivered to their door at any time. They can have their hair cut in the living room, have champagne and caviar rushed to them on a whim, enjoy a shiatsu massage in their own bed or invite a clairvoyant to predict their future from Tarot cards laid out on the kitchen table. But there is one thing that is currently unavailable for delivery to those who live in this most can-do of metropolises. Women can not legally give birth at home in the presence of a trained and experienced midwife. This city of more than 8 million people, with its reputation for being at the cutting-edge of modern urban living, now lacks a single midwife legally permitted to help women have a baby in their own homes.
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Euthanasia Victims Dumped in Lake
The remains of up to 50 Britons who ended their lives at a controversial Swiss suicide clinic have been dumped in a lake, according to a nurse who worked at the organisation. Several patients had made it clear to Dignitas that they wanted their ashes to be buried alongside relatives in Britain, but instead they were allegedly dropped into Lake Zurich in order to cut costs. Police are investigating the discovery last month of dozens of urns close to a pier used by a boat club at Kusnacht, five miles from Zurich. The urns, from a crematorium used by Dignitas, were found by divers among empty wine bottles, a broken bicycle and an abandoned supermarket trolley.
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"Aborted" Baby Almost Cremated Alive!
From China, we have this story of a baby who not only survived the abortion, and the ensuing neglect, but who was disposed of as medical waste and nearly cremated alive (Hat-tip to Hawaii Right to Life):
AN aborted baby declared dead by doctors in south China's Guangdong Province cried before he was due to be cremated, but died hours later as doctors refused to treat him.
A mortuary worker at Nanhai Funeral Home in Foshan City said the baby cried and scared him as he was about to throw the coffin into a furnace, Information Times reported today.
He opened the box and found the seven-month fetus moving, but apparently choking on some cotton wool in his mouth, the report said.
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2600 State Street, Ste E.
Alton, IL 62002
Phone: 618-466-4122
Fax: 618-466-4134
Web: www.ifrl.org
E-mail: mail@ifrl.org
