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Kansas governor vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care to minors: Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for ...
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Kansas governor vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care to minors
Quick Glance: Kansas Governor Kelly Blocks Gender Confirmation for Minors
  • Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed a bill on gender confirmation for minors, leading to conflict with Republican state lawmakers.

  • The package of measures now goes back to the state Legislature, where the GOP majority is likely to have enough votes to override the governor's veto. Lawmakers are expected to return for a veto session on April 29.

  • The proposed measure would ban gender-affirming care for trans and non-binary youth in Kansas, including puberty blockers and surgeries, although surgical procedures on children are rarely performed.

  • The law would also allow lawsuits against doctors who would lose their licenses if they provide gender-affirming treatments to minors, and state funds like Medicaid would not be used for such treatments.
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How Biden’s abortion stance has shifted over the years: Watch how Biden has shifted his views on abortion over the years.
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How Biden’s abortion stance has shifted over the years
Quick Glance: Trump Narrows Gap with Young Voters, Biden's Lead Shrinks - Survey Results
  • A new poll shows that former President Donald Trump continues to reduce his deficit with young voters compared to President Joe Biden.

  • In the Harvard Youth Poll released on Thursday, Biden leads among 18- to 29-year-olds with 45 percent compared to 37 percent for Trump, while 16 percent are undecided.

  • Biden holds a significant lead among likely voters who are non-white or female. He outperforms Trump by 47 points among college graduates and by 23 points among students.

  • The survey also indicates that Trump's younger supporters are much more enthusiastic about the former president than their peers who support Biden, and that Biden's approval rating among young adults is only at 31 percent.
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Where states stand on abortion: The battle over abortion access remains in some states. Here's a look at where state laws stand now.
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Where states stand on abortion
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Poland lawmakers take steps towards liberalising abortion laws: Under existing laws, abortion is legal only in cases of rape, incest or a danger to a woman’s ...
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Poland lawmakers take steps towards liberalising abortion laws
Quick Glance: Arizona GOP outlines alternative abortion strategy
  • Republican state legislators in Arizona are considering alternative ballot measures in response to a court ruling upholding a strict abortion ban.

  • The GOP's strategy document plans to provide voters with alternatives to the Arizona for Abortion Access ballot measure.

  • Republicans aim to constitutionalize existing laws to discuss abortion policy.

  • The document outlines various scenarios, including 'Phase 1' and 'Phase 2' options for lawmakers.
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Employers must give their workers time off for an abortion or pregnancy care, according to final federal rule
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Employers must give their workers time off for an abortion or pregnancy ...
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Charted: Young adult sterilization soars post-Roe v. Wade: More young adults opted for vasectomies and tubal ligations after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Charted: Young adult sterilization soars post-Roe v. Wade
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A rare fungal infection was found in two cats in Kansas. The vet tech also got sick.
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A rare fungal infection was found in two cats in Kansas. The vet tech also ...
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Abortion opponents still expect federal action from Trump. Here’s what it could look like.
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Abortion opponents still expect federal action from Trump ...
Quick Glance: Arizona Republicans Block Efforts to Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban
  • Democratic bills to repeal a 160-year-old abortion ban were blocked in the Legislature.

  • Arizona's highest court decision upholding a 1864 abortion ban caused chaos and confusion.

  • Democrats aimed to repeal the ban to protect women's health, facing hurdles in the Republican-controlled legislature.

  • The uncertainty loomed over whether Republican leaders would allow immediate action on repealing the ban, despite pressure from Democrats and some Republicans.
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Greater numbers of younger people got permanent contraception after Dobbs decision, study finds
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Greater numbers of younger people got permanent contraception after Dobbs ...
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Permanent birth control procedures increasing after abortion laws, new research finds
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Permanent birth control procedures increasing after abortion laws ...
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Democrats see recent abortion rulings as an opening to galvanize Latino voters: Democrats see recent state court rulings on abortion as a galvanizing moment to ...
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Democrats see recent abortion rulings as an opening to galvanize Latino ...
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Since the Supreme Court ruling against abortion: significantly more people in the USA are now undergoing sterilization
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Since the Supreme Court ruling against abortion: significantly more people ...
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Abortion in Missouri: A look at key claims in the ‘decline to sign’ effort: As the deadline approaches for an abortion-rights coalition to gather enough ...
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Abortion in Missouri: A look at key claims in the ‘decline to sign’ effort
Quick Glance: Arizona Republicans foil another effort to repeal 1864 abortion ban
  • Arizona House Republicans once again thwarted an attempt on Wednesday to repeal the state's nearly complete abortion ban from 1864, leaving Democrats without a vote on their repeal bill for the second consecutive week.

  • Despite facing pressure from influential conservatives, such as former President Trump and Senate hopeful Kari Lake, urging GOP leaders to lift the ban, the Republicans blocked the repeal.

  • State House Democrats made a procedural maneuver to attempt to suspend House rules and bring the repeal bill to the floor for discussion. However, this action was rejected by the GOP majority, with only one Republican, Representative Matt Gress, crossing party lines to support bringing up the repeal bill.

  • A similar endeavor to repeal the ban was obstructed by Republicans last week. Following persistent criticism of the law by Democrats both within and outside the state throughout the week, prominent figures like Trump and Lake recognized the political risks and advocated for a change in direction within the Legislature.
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U.S. emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
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U.S. emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to ...
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Where State Abortion Laws Stand Without Roe: The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here’s what that means for each state.
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Where State Abortion Laws Stand Without Roe
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What Blocking Emergency Abortion Care in Idaho Means for Doctors Like Me: 'As we’ve seen in Idaho, policies guided by anti-abortion extremism make health care ...
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What Blocking Emergency Abortion Care in Idaho Means for Doctors Like Me
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DeSantis says Florida amendment would allow abortions ‘until birth.’ What’s true?
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DeSantis says Florida amendment would allow abortions ‘until birth ...
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Some pharmacists fear jail time over murky abortion laws : In states with abortion bans, there's little guidance for dispensing the FDA-approved drug misoprostol ...
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Some pharmacists fear jail time over murky abortion laws
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DeSantis says ballot proposal allows abortion ‘until birth.’ Here’s what you should know
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DeSantis says ballot proposal allows abortion ‘until birth ...
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Italy moves to allow anti-abortion activists inside clinics: Critics say “providing maternity support” is doublespeak for harassing women and denying them their ...
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Italy moves to allow anti-abortion activists inside clinics
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Montanans Launch Push to Get Abortion Rights on November Ballot: "With 2024 shaping up to be the biggest year ever for abortion on the ballot ...
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Montanans Launch Push to Get Abortion Rights on November Ballot
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Abortion: Pregnant women in Hanover can get advice here: Politicians and citizens are discussing the proposal from experts to decriminalize abortion up to the ...
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Abortion: Pregnant women in Hanover can get advice here
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Belgian Deputy PM says a European Action Plan on Rare Diseases is ‘essential’: Belgium is supporting the creation of a European action plan for rare diseases and ...
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Belgian Deputy PM says a European Action Plan on Rare Diseases is ...
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Abortions resuming in Flagstaff as 1864 ban looms, Planned Parenthood announces: Planned Parenthood Arizona is resuming abortion services in northern Arizona ...
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Abortions resuming in Flagstaff as 1864 ban looms, Planned Parenthood ...
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Legalization of abortions? Experts provide good arguments: A commission of experts recommends decriminalizing abortions. The responsible ministers Paus ...
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Legalization of abortions? Experts provide good arguments
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The Texas Medical Board must make clear rules for abortion care.: The Texas Medical Board must make clear rules for abortion care. Its proposed rules are ...
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The Texas Medical Board must make clear rules for abortion care.
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Commission report on reproductive medicine triggers different reactions: Berlin - After the presentation of the report by the expert commission on reproductive ...
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Commission report on reproductive medicine triggers different reactions
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Planned change in the law: How the federal government wants to take action against sidewalk nuisances
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Planned change in the law: How the federal government wants to take action ...
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Maine lawmakers approve shield law for providers of abortion and gender-affirming care
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Maine lawmakers approve shield law for providers of abortion and ...
Quick Glance: Maine Republicans Censured Over Connecting Mass Shooting to God's Wrath on Abortion Law
  • Two Maine Republican lawmakers faced censure on Thursday for linking the state's deadliest mass shooting to God's anger over a bill expanding abortion access.

  • Following discussions on a new legislative proposal, Michael Lemelin and Shelley Rudnicki were formally reprimanded by the chamber.

  • Initial remarks triggered swift bipartisan condemnation in Maine's Democrat-led House of Representatives.

  • A censure vote by the House resulted in both legislators being barred from speaking or voting until issuing apologies.
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Abortion: Does the traffic light dare to violate paragraph 218a?: A commission advises the government to legalize abortion. Some in the coalition see a historic ...
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Abortion: Does the traffic light dare to violate paragraph 218a?
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Impunity recommended for abortions in the early stages of pregnancy: Berlin - According to an expert commission appointed by the German government ...
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Impunity recommended for abortions in the early stages of pregnancy
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Simon Harris urged to implement abortion care changes 'now': An open letter to the Taoiseach warns that patients are being denied timely reproductive ...
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Simon Harris urged to implement abortion care changes 'now'
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Letter: The Utah Legislature is now channeling the work of an anti-vice activist scandalized by female autonomy
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Letter: The Utah Legislature is now channeling the work of an anti-vice ...
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Letters: Veterans’ healthcare crisis demands attention and action: Many U.S. veterans face delays of weeks or even months before receiving essential medical care ...
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Letters: Veterans’ healthcare crisis demands attention and action
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Midlands Voices: Put health care decisions back in patients’ hands: The government shouldn't be involved in decisions that are better left to patients and their ...
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Midlands Voices: Put health care decisions back in patients’ hands
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After abortion ban: More sterilizations in the USA: In 2022, the majority conservative Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion. More and more people are ...
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After abortion ban: More sterilizations in the USA
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Arizona abortion ban likely to cause scramble for services in Colorado, other states where it’s still legal
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Arizona abortion ban likely to cause scramble for services in Colorado ...
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Opinion | Trump’s New Way on Abortion: He embraces states’ rights and aims to show that Democrats are the radical ones.
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Opinion | Trump’s New Way on Abortion
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The Anti-Abortion Case at SCOTUS We Haven’t Talked About Enough: Ahead of new arguments at SCOTUS, an ER doctor explains why she doesn’t wait until the brink of ...
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 The Anti-Abortion Case at SCOTUS We Haven’t Talked About Enough
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Increase since 2022: More sterilizations in the USA after the repeal of nationwide abortion rights
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Increase since 2022: More sterilizations in the USA after the repeal of ...
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The Danger of Being Pregnant in Texas: How 15 women sued their home state to save abortion rights for everyone.
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The Danger of Being Pregnant in Texas
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Hey, Arizona, try reducing abortions by helping women and children: States like Arizona should support women and children instead of taking away reproductive ...
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Hey, Arizona, try reducing abortions by helping women and children
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Trump might want to stop comparing this moment to four years ago: Polling shows that issues that drove the 2020 election have faded, to Biden’s detriment.
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Trump might want to stop comparing this moment to four years ago
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Comment: The debate on abortion must not turn into a culture war: The government is opening up a conflict in an already heated time without any real need ...
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Comment: The debate on abortion must not turn into a culture war
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Vatican Condemns Gender-Affirming Surgery, Gender Theory And Surrogacy As Threats To Human ‘Dignity’
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Quick Glance: Vatican Denounces Gender Surgery, Surrogacy, and Gender Theory
  • The Vatican declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, equating them with abortion and euthanasia.

  • Rejecting 'gender theory,' the Vatican emphasized that people should not tamper with the gender they were created with by God.

  • The new document underscores that biological sex and the sociocultural role of sex can be distinguished but not separated.

  • The Vatican's most detailed stance on gender emphasizes the complementarity of biologically male and female sex organs for creating new life.
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Abortion law reform in Poland clears first hurdle: Warsaw - In the debate about the liberalization of abortion rights in Poland, four bills from the ruling ...
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Abortion law reform in Poland clears first hurdle
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Council majority backs travel funds for out-of-state abortions: But it will be months before the City Council votes on how to use its $500 ...
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Council majority backs travel funds for out-of-state abortions
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Government commission recommends legalization of abortions: Berlin - An expert commission set up by the traffic light coalition recommends a fundamental ...
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Government commission recommends legalization of abortions
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I made the tough choice to end a pregnancy. Florida abortion ban robs women of that right | Opinion
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I made the tough choice to end a pregnancy. Florida abortion ban robs ...
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Arizona abortion ruling could hurt Trump, but inflation report weighs on Biden: Betting markets put the likelihood of Biden’s re-election at 42% ...
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Arizona abortion ruling could hurt Trump, but inflation report weighs on ...
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Many barriers for unwanted pregnant women: Berlin - Unwanted pregnancies represent a borderline situation for many women in Germany. When terminating a pregnancy ...
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Many barriers for unwanted pregnant women
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Paragraph 218: CSU questions the Commission's independence: Berlin - In the debate about abortion paragraph 218, Union parliamentary group vice-president ...
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Paragraph 218: CSU questions the Commission's independence
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Missouri Senate takes up renewed push to defund Planned Parenthood: Democrats say the proposal is political theater in an election year.
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Missouri Senate takes up renewed push to defund Planned Parenthood
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Trump rejects nationwide abortion ban: Washington - Former US President Donald Trump has spoken out in favor of changing the regulations on abortion in the ...
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Trump rejects nationwide abortion ban
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More protection against abortion opponents: law against harassment of pregnant women planned
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More protection against abortion opponents: law against harassment of ...
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Is Abortion a Matter of National Security?: Joining the military means relinquishing control over so many aspects of your life. For women ...
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Is Abortion a Matter of National Security?
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The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions, in Moyle v. United States
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The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions ...
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Abortion and surrogacy: Vatican releases statement: Rome - In a new policy statement, Pope Francis has described abortion and the carrying of children by ...
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Abortion and surrogacy: Vatican releases statement
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Angie Leventis Lourgos: When an abortion clinic became the last one standing in Missouri
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Angie Leventis Lourgos: When an abortion clinic became the last one ...
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Health sector needs more women leaders to tackle backlash against sexual and reproductive rights — experts
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Health sector needs more women leaders to tackle backlash against sexual ...
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'When doctors offered me an abortion, we made a vow': Abigail and Joshua Bray are now raising money for the charity and hospitals which have helped to save ...
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'When doctors offered me an abortion, we made a vow'