Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2172 topstories Abortion Issues en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:12:58 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2172 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20091107/us_health_care_overhaul AP politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:12:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.f18ad27c1df046fe945bc1a4f5dc65d7.health_care_overhaul_wxsc101.jpg?x=82&y=130&q=85&sig=yv6i5mXqgDKjoMOqYQilew--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>AP - House Democrats have cleared an impasse over abortion that has been holding up a vote on sweeping health care legislation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.f18ad27c1df046fe945bc1a4f5dc65d7.health_care_overhaul_wxsc101.jpg?x=82&y=130&q=85&sig=yv6i5mXqgDKjoMOqYQilew--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="photo" title="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)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_go_co/us_apnewsalert ap/20091107/us_apnewsalert AP politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:54:10 GMT AP - House Democrats clear impasse over abortion holding up vote on health care legislation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_activist_killed_mich ap/20091106/us_activist_killed_mich AP us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:57:04 GMT AP - A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school just before the shooting spree. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_capitol_arrests ap/20091105/us_health_care_capitol_arrests AP politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:18 GMT AP - U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a dozen anti-abortion activists outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after a massive protest against the Democrats' health care bill. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_notification ap/20091105/us_abortion_notification AP us Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:32:55 GMT AP - Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_congress nm/20091105/us_usa_healthcare_congress Reuters health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:25:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_congress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.4e6f0c841e57475e82ead5ce9d57b912.aptopix_health_care_overhaul_dcab115.jpg?x=130&y=70&q=85&sig=Cj43N1cwF3sgai4Y.hjl_Q--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures while speaking about health care during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, Pelosi said Congress was at a 'historic moment' with lawmakers 'on the cusp of delivering on the promise of making affordable, quality health insurance available to every American.' (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Democrats in the House of Representatives scrambled on Wednesday to iron out lingering concerns over abortion in a healthcare reform bill that was headed to a close and potentially historic weekend debate.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091105/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_congress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.4e6f0c841e57475e82ead5ce9d57b912.aptopix_health_care_overhaul_dcab115.jpg?x=130&y=70&q=85&sig=Cj43N1cwF3sgai4Y.hjl_Q--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="photo" title="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures while speaking about health care during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, Pelosi said Congress was at a 'historic moment' with lawmakers 'on the cusp of delivering on the promise of making affordable, quality health insurance available to every American.' (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_clinic_threat ap/20091103/us_abortion_clinic_threat AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:52:15 GMT AP - Federal prosecutors say statements from a Washington man accused of threatening a Colorado abortion doctor's family should be admitted in court. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting_auction ap/20091102/us_abortion_shooting_auction AP us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:55:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting_auction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091027/capt.202c6ce05cb94472b38129b373af07a0.abortion_shooting_auction_ny141.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=R4wemQ0h_wQlLry9vCTsnw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>AP - Online auction house eBay has removed items that were posted for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise money for defense of a man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider, the company said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting_auction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091027/capt.202c6ce05cb94472b38129b373af07a0.abortion_shooting_auction_ny141.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=R4wemQ0h_wQlLry9vCTsnw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="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)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_speech_zones ap/20091102/us_abortion_speech_zones AP us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:29:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_speech_zones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091013/capt.photo_1255476157896-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=6m7vut0EdgLOu1gE5.gmPA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A gynecologist-obstetrician performing an abortion. The global rate of abortions and unwanted pregnancies has fallen, a study said Tuesday but warned that unsafe terminations, specially in developing nations, was killing 70,000 women a year.(AFP/File/Didier Pallages)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal appeals court has struck down an ordinance that created two types of buffer zones around medical facilities after a Christian legal group challenged the law on behalf of a nurse who protests abortions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_speech_zones"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091013/capt.photo_1255476157896-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=6m7vut0EdgLOu1gE5.gmPA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A gynecologist-obstetrician performing an abortion. The global rate of abortions and unwanted pregnancies has fallen, a study said Tuesday but warned that unsafe terminations, specially in developing nations, was killing 70,000 women a year.(AFP/File/Didier Pallages)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091031/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_swine_flu_side_effects ap/20091031/eu_med_swine_flu_side_effects AP health Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:12 GMT AP - Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a new study says. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20091030/ts_usnews/househealthcarebillrewardsactivismonwomensissues usnews/20091030/househealthcarebillrewardsactivismonwomensissues U.S. News & World Report topstories Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:52:47 GMT U.S. News & World Report - Women may seem to be the driving force of health reform, given all the attention recently paid to gender disparities in insurance premiums. In fact, the massive health reform bill unveiled by the House of Representatives yesterday contains several sections that pertain just to women in terms of abortion coverage, pregnancy services, and prohibitions against excluding those with pre-existing conditions, specifically mentioning women who've been victims of domestic violence. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_provider_protection ap/20091029/us_abortion_provider_protection AP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:54:32 GMT AP - The widow of a doctor who was shot to death in his New York home in 1998 by an abortion protester said Thursday the new state law setting tougher penalties for people who attack abortion providers or their employees and volunteers will reduce such incidents. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_patrick_kennedy_abortion ap/20091029/us_patrick_kennedy_abortion AP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:11:43 GMT AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island has agreed to meet with the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence after a public argument over the national health care overhaul. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_burn_in_hell ap/20091027/us_health_overhaul_burn_in_hell AP politics Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:23:50 GMT AP - Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a "Burn in Hell" video contest to protest the health care legislation in Congress. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_re_us/us_oklahoma_abortion_laws ap/20091024/us_oklahoma_abortion_laws AP us Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:27:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_re_us/us_oklahoma_abortion_laws"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091023/capt.09e9c9a9a1ba4c6fb2fa96122fe38183.abortion_laws_okso108.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=S.TrwkKZjp1xziM6juV3wQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>AP - Abortion rights supporters have challenged two new Oklahoma laws that 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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_re_us/us_oklahoma_abortion_laws"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091023/capt.09e9c9a9a1ba4c6fb2fa96122fe38183.abortion_laws_okso108.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=S.TrwkKZjp1xziM6juV3wQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="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)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_abortion ap/20091023/us_health_overhaul_abortion AP politics Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:57:48 GMT AP - House Democrats are at an impasse over whether their remake of the nation's health care system would effectively allow federal funding of abortion. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091020/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortiondemo afp/20091020/perupoliticsabortiondemo AFP health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:21:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091020/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortiondemo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091020/capt.photo_1256080884024-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.agl7_7hky.31NdF1OSuxA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Two young women clash with a riot policeman during a pro-abortion protest in front of the Peruvian Congress in Lima. Thousands of pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators squared off outside Congress Tuesday, as a legislative committee revisited and confirmed its recent support of a bill allowing abortion in case of rape or fetal deformity.(AFP/Ernesto Benavides)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Thousands of pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators squared off outside Congress Tuesday, as a legislative committee revisited and confirmed its recent support of a bill allowing abortion in case of rape or fetal deformity.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091020/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortiondemo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091020/capt.photo_1256080884024-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.agl7_7hky.31NdF1OSuxA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Two young women clash with a riot policeman during a pro-abortion protest in front of the Peruvian Congress in Lima. Thousands of pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators squared off outside Congress Tuesday, as a legislative committee revisited and confirmed its recent support of a bill allowing abortion in case of rape or fetal deformity.(AFP/Ernesto Benavides)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091018/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortion afp/20091018/perupoliticsabortion AFP health Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:41:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091018/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091018/capt.photo_1255909296227-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pR64GmvhCkEq3UvHuw_gRg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Women hold a pro-abortion protest in front of the Health Ministry in Lima in September 2009. More than half of all Peruvians are against legalizing abortion in cases of rape or fetal deformity, according to a national poll released Sunday on a contentious bill pending in Congress.(AFP/File/Raul Garcia Pereira)" border="0" /></a>AFP - More than half of all Peruvians are against legalizing abortion in cases of rape or fetal deformity, according to a national poll released Sunday on a contentious bill pending in Congress.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091018/hl_afp/perupoliticsabortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091018/capt.photo_1255909296227-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pR64GmvhCkEq3UvHuw_gRg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Women hold a pro-abortion protest in front of the Health Ministry in Lima in September 2009. More than half of all Peruvians are against legalizing abortion in cases of rape or fetal deformity, according to a national poll released Sunday on a contentious bill pending in Congress.(AFP/File/Raul Garcia Pereira)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091017/ts_afp/spainpoliticsabortionprotest afp/20091017/spainpoliticsabortionprotest AFP topstories Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:59:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091017/ts_afp/spainpoliticsabortionprotest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091017/capt.photo_1255801082741-4-0.jpg?x=81&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9duEUoNbwz_UpjgGvYsA--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="A man takes part in a demonstration to protest against the government's proposed abortion law reform in Madrid. More than one million people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by the socialist government to liberalise the abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country, organisers said.(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by Spain's socialist government to liberalise abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091017/ts_afp/spainpoliticsabortionprotest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091017/capt.photo_1255801082741-4-0.jpg?x=81&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9duEUoNbwz_UpjgGvYsA--" align="left" height="130" width="81" alt="photo" title="A man takes part in a demonstration to protest against the government's proposed abortion law reform in Madrid. More than one million people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by the socialist government to liberalise the abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country, organisers said.(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/abortion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20091014/ts_usnews/abortiondowncontraceptionuprecipeforhealthreform usnews/20091014/abortiondowncontraceptionuprecipeforhealthreform U.S. News & World Report topstories Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:10:30 GMT U.S. News & World Report - Global abortion rates are down--from an estimated 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center that supports abortion rights. A key reason for that drop, the report said, was that the proportion of married women using contraception worldwide increased from 54 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2003 as pregnancy prevention methods became more available and socially acceptable.