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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The governor signed a bill Monday that makes Utah the first state to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later. The bill signed by Republican Gov. Gary Herbert is based on the disputed premise that a
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NEW YORK (AP) — Though congressional Republicans' bid to defund Planned Parenthood was vetoed by President Barack Obama, pro-life activists and politicians are achieving a growing portion of their goal with an aggressive state-by-state strategy. Over the past year, more than a dozen states have sought to halt or reduce
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law Thursday making Indiana the second state to ban abortions because of fetal genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome. Pence signed the measure just hours ahead of his deadline to take action on the proposal approved by the Republican-dominated Legislature
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that could force all but one of the state's abortion clinics to close, a sign that a similar law in Texas also could be in peril. The justices effectively reversed an order by the federal
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BOSTON – Unintended pregnancies in the U.S. fell to the lowest proportion in 30 years across the board, according to an analysis published Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine. The study showed that unintended pregnancies fell to 45 percent of all pregnancies in 2011, down from 51 percent
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BOSTON – As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with one of the most significant abortion cases to reach its chambers in two decades, pro-life advocates in Massachusetts highlighted legislative inaction in Boston on a measure similar to the one at the center of the high court case. Like the
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(CNSNews.com) — "Have we reached a point in our society where there effectively is an Amazon.com for human parts, entire babies?" Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) asked the witnesses at a special hearing on bioethics and fetal tissue on Wednesday. Dr. Gerard Kevin Donovan, a pediatrician and bioethicist
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century. In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court's liberals and conservatives signaled that there's little common ground as they try to figure out
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