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A member of "Planned Parenthood' women's rights ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:35:30 GMT

(AFP/File) - A member of "Planned Parenthood' women's rights group protests against the "Stupak Amendment" which they say will ban private abortion coverage for millions of American women after lawmakers tagged an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)

A prison van arriving at the Old Bailey courthouse in London. ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:37:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - A prison van arriving at the Old Bailey courthouse in London. A doctor has been jailed for six years for spiking his pregnant lover's drinks in a failed bid to abort their unborn child.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)

FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo, Republican National ...

(AP) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:57:56 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the 100th annual NAACP Convention in New York. The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation that Democrats are trying to push through Congress. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Jared Mohler is escorted to the courtroom at Lafayette Hall ...

(AP) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:41:42 GMT

(AP) - Jared Mohler is escorted to the courtroom at Lafayette Hall in Lexington, Mo., for his first appearance on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Mohler is one of five family members charged with forcible sodomy, rape with a child younger than 12 and use of a child in a sexual performance. The allegations, which include bestiality, forcing children into fake marriages with relatives and making an 11-year-old have an abortion, date from 1988 to 1995. (AP Photo/ John Sleezer, The Kansas City Star) MANDATORY CREDIT

This undated photo provided by NARAL Pro-Choice America shows ...

(AP) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:32:27 GMT

(AP) - This undated photo provided by NARAL Pro-Choice America shows policy director Donna Crane. Crane and other abortion-rights advocates say the Stupak-Pitts amendment would make it harder — in some cases perhaps impossible — for millions of women to have health insurance that covers abortion. (AP Photo/NARAL Pro-Choice America)

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, House Oversight and ...

(AP) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:45:48 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee Chairman Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., asks a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House-passed amendment on abortion restrictions has become a crucial sticking point in the debate over health care legislation, with rival factions offering radically different predictions of the impact should the amendment become law. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE - In this April 2, 2005, file photo, Cardinal Theodore ...

(AP) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this April 2, 2005, file photo, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, who was then Washington's archbishop, speaks with the media in Washington. On Nov. 6, 2009, during the final hours of negotiation on the House health care bill, House Speaker Pelosi, a Catholic and an abortion rights supporter, was on the phone to Rome with McCarrick on the subject. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

US Congressman Joseph Pitts, seen here in 2003, who co-authored ...

(AFP/PID-HO/File) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:04:24 GMT

(AFP/PID-HO/File) - US Congressman Joseph Pitts, seen here in 2003, who co-authored an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.(AFP/PID-HO/File)

Rep. Bart Stupak (L) seen here in June 2009. Rights advocates ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:04:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - Rep. Bart Stupak (L) seen here in June 2009. Rights advocates Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on the Stupak-Pitts amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)

Rights advocates from the National Organization of Women (NOW), ...

(NOW) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:04:24 GMT

(NOW) - Rights advocates from the National Organization of Women (NOW), Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.(NOW)

An anti-abortion protestor holds a sign in front of the US Supreme ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:19 GMT

(Reuters) - An anti-abortion protestor holds a sign in front of the US Supreme Court building during the March for Life in Washington, January 22, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

FILE - In this July 28, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder attends ...

(AP) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:21 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this July 28, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder attends his preliminary hearing in court in Wichita, Kan. Roeder confessed to the Associated Press Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 to killing abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, saying he has no regrets. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool)

FILE - In this Oct. 29,2009, file photo Crystal Chiu places ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:11:34 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Oct. 29,2009, file photo Crystal Chiu places a placard on the podium on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to a news conference about health care. House Democratic leaders struggled Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FILE - This combination image of Oct. 2009, file photos shows ...

(AP) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:17:26 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This combination image of Oct. 2009, file photos shows Congressional candidates in New York's 23rd district, from left, Democrat Bill Owens, Conservative Party Dan Hoffman, and Republican Dede Scozzafava. Prominent national Republicans have snubbed GOP candidate Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman who supports abortion rights and gay marriage, in favor of third party candidate Hoffman. (AP Photo/FILES)

FILE - In this June 2, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder makes ...

(AP) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:40 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this June 2, 2009 file photo, Scott Roeder makes his first court appearance via a video link from the Sedgwick County Jail on in Wichita, Kan. Online retailer EBay is blocking an auction to raise money for the defense of the man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider George Tiller. EBay said in a statement Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009 the auction would violate its policy on 'offensive material.' Supporters of Roeder said they wanted to auction off items including an Army of God manual, which is an underground publication for anti-abortion militants that describes ways to shut down clinics, including bombing. (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, File, Pool)

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2004 file photo, Lyn Toelle fills out ...

(AP) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:19:59 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2004 file photo, Lyn Toelle fills out forms before bringing roses to her legislators during the Rose Day observance, an anti -abortion event, at the state capitol in Oklahoma City. Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk them through an ultrasound. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Haderthauer, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2004 file photo, Garlin Newton carries ...

(AP) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:19:52 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2004 file photo, Garlin Newton carries a cross in front of the Oklahoma Capitol in Oklahoma City, in observance of Rose Day, an anti-abortion event. Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk them through an ultrasound. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Haderthauer, File)

Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline talks to a men's group a ...

(AP) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:16:14 GMT

(AP) - Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline talks to a men's group a the Topeka Bible Church in Topeka, Kan. in this Sept, 16, 2006 photo. Kline's conduct while attorney general will be called into question during a pretrial hearing Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, for Wichita, Kan. abortion doctor George Tiller who is charged with 19 misdemeanor counts of violating Kansas abortion laws. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)