'Roe vs Wade' legalized abortion in US 35 years ago
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Thirty-five years ago on Tuesday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Roe versus Wade case, legalizing abortion and introducing some of the world's least restrictive abortion laws.
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By KATHARINE WEBSTER SALEM, N.H. - A Maine couple upset that their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant tied her up, loaded her in their car and began driving to New York to force her to get an abortion, police said.
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The condition of the baby at the centre of a right to life debate has "changed for the better", a High Court judge hears.
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Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the
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The number of abortions in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, the lowest level since 1974 and down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, according to report issued Thursday
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By Kurt Loft, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 15--TAMPA -- Eighty years ago, a wave of protest and indignation swept across America. Two Italian immigrants had been found guilty of murder, sentenced to death and electrocuted.
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A federal judge said that a 2000 Supreme Court ruling required the law to have an exemption allowing such abortions if a woman's health is deemed at risk.
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In the new hit movie "Juno" and now in real life with Jamie Lynn Spears, 16-year-old girls get pregnant and decide to bear the child rather than opt for abortion. For social conservatives, it's a challenging story line Â they condemn the teen sex but hail the ensuing choice.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them  in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government  pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and  reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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The warning label on the abortion drug is changing as the result of problems predicted by pro-life activists. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening the warning
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Portuguese leader Jose Socrates has pledged to legalise abortion By setting out on the path to legalise abortion, Portugal treads where most western nations did 30 or 40 years ago.Comment
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The number of abortions in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, the lowest level since 1974 and down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, according to report issued Thursday.
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DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - After controversial visits to Ireland and Poland, a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal to draw attention to the staunchly Roman Catholic country&#39;s highly restrictive abortion laws.
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Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides.
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Pro-life activists mark the 40th year of the Abortion Act with a rally and march in Westminster.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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Christy Jones says her idea for a business to freeze women&#39;s eggs came when her own biological clock alarm rang at age 32. It was 2002, and two of her close friends were having trouble becoming pregnant.