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Wave of Anti-Abortion Bills Advance in the States

NEW YORK -- Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles - legal, financial and psychological - in the paths of women seeking abortions. The tactics vary: mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, bans on abortions...

South Dakota Governor Signs Controversial Abortion Bill

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation. Abortion rights groups have already said they plan to file a lawsuit challenging the measure, which also requires women to...

Opinion: Defund Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood has been misleading Congress and American taxpayers for many years. I know -- I was part of the deception. For eight years I worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, and for two of those years I was the clinic's director. Here are the ways Planned Parenthood is deceiving the public -- and...

Opinion: The GOP's Dangerous Attack on Planned Parenthood

In 1916, one woman's strength, determination and conviction helped open the door for hundreds of millions of women worldwide to plan their own pregnancies. As a nation, we have made great strides since Margaret Sanger opened that first family planning clinic in New York City nine decades ago, and Planned Parenthood is...

From New York to Midwest to South, Abortion Battle Heats Up

NEW YORK -- It was only a single billboard, raised high above the streets of Manhattan, with a photograph of a black little girl and the kind of message the city's residents don't often see: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." The ad was sponsored by a Texas-based anti-abortion group, which...

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Live Action Planned Parenthood 'Sting' Videos Are Heavily Edited

The anti-abortion activist group Live Action released two videos this week of Planned Parenthood staffers discussing sex-selective abortions with actors posing as patients, but a side-by-side analysis of one of the edited videos and the original, unedited version of it shows that parts of the conversation were...

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Sex-Selective Abortion Ban Sponsor Said It Might Be "Fatal" To Roe V. Wade

Supporters of the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PRENDA) have cast it as a civil rights measure.

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A New Way to Reduce the Number of Abortions

The Department of Health released their annual abortion statistics on Wednesday, an event always greeted with interest by media and the sexual and reproductive health sector alike.

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Planned Parenthood Sting Caught On Video, Released By Anti-Abortion Activists

A group of anti-abortion activists that Planned Parenthood has suspected is targeting it in a hoax investigation released the first of a series of videos on Tuesday that purportedly shows Planned Parenthood encouraging the selective abortions of girls in the United States.

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Abortion Figures Reveal Three Teen Girls Given Terminations Had At Least Seven Previous Abortions

Abortions were given to three teenage girls in England and Wales who had previously had at least seven pregnancies terminated, latest figures reveal.

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06/04/12 'Keep your hands off my body' Source: Times Live - South Africa Thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul yesterday to protest against the Turkish prime minister's plan to introduce a new law on abortion, a practice he has called "murder".
06/04/12 Our 'conscientious objector' option is at risk (Last... Source: Fredericksburg.com - Fredericksburg VA I'm writing to correct a misleading headline that appeared on May 22 ["Birth control basis of lawsuits"].
06/04/12 House passes 2013 intelligence budget Source: Erie Times-News - Erie PA Here's how area House members voted on major issues in the week ending Friday.
06/03/12 Abortion Surfaces as Runoff Issue for Ga. Lawmaker Source: WTVY - Dothan AL The sponsor of a new law tightening abortion restrictions in Georgia is getting a primary challenge from a woman who says the measure is too intrusive.
06/03/12 SIMMONS: 'High stakes' in the politics of abortion Source: The Washington Times - Washington DC Missy Reilly Smith , who has paired up with pro-life Democratic presidential candidate Randall Terry to siphon votes from President Obama, isn't about to fall into the rabbit hole and start questioning the president's U.S. citizenship, parentage or even his views on government largesse.

Background on reproductive rights

Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health. The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows:

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