Anti-abortion bill becomes law in Oklahoma
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A bill prohibiting public funds from being used for most abortions has become law in Oklahoma after a deadline passed for the state's governor to veto the measure.
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House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill.
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Senate Republicans moved Friday to draw the curtain on the legislative year with a victory they hope supporters remember on Election Day: a vote on legislation to outlaw taking minors over state lines for secret abortions.
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Parliament adopted a bill Tuesday recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in a vote seen as a victory for pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko.
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Mozambique is set to end its blanket ban on abortion after the government acknowledged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa&#39;s most impoverished nations.
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New Jersey will become the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty under a measure lawmakers approved Thursday and the governor intends to sign within days.
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An abortion bill aimed at stopping people from helping pregnant girls skirt parental-notification laws has gained passage in both houses of Congress, but sticky political and policy disputes stand between it and President Bush's desk.
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In a speech today, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said friends and foes on the issue of abortion should come together to reduce the number of "unwanted pregnancies."
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Portugal introduced a new law Thursday that allows abortion up to the 10th week of pregnancy, but imposes a three-day reflection period for women seeking the procedure and grants doctors the right to opt out on moral grounds.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes...
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In Congress and states nationwide, anti-abortion activists are broadening efforts to support hospitals, doctors and pharmacists who &#151; citing moral grounds &#151; want to opt out of services linked to abortion and emergency contraception.
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Religious conservatives have dusted off a largely forgotten 1887 state law that allows citizens to launch grand jury investigations, and they are using it to help turn Kansas into one of the nation's biggest abortion battlegrounds.
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Portugal's parliament approved, as  expected, a law to lift the ban on abortion by a majority vote  late on Thursday.
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Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill that has largely faded from the rancorous public debate over abortion has slowly and quietly begun to transform the experience of ending a pregnancy in the United States.
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Women would get the legal right to breastfeed in public, under a new law being proposed by the government.
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By Brian Sargent, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 23--YUKON -- Earline Smaistrla wants to bring fiscal responsibility and accountability to the forefront of Oklahoma's political scene.