| March 18, 2008 | - Marvin Richardson, an organic strawberry farmer in Idaho who is challenging Senator Larry Craig for his Senate seat, had his name legally changed to Pro-Life.
| Source:
CBS News
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| September 13, 2007 | - Sunni sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the “Anbar Awakening,” who had recently been photographed shaking Bush's hand, was assassinated. “His death has squeezed our heart,” said Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, head of a rival tribal organization. “Now, I swear to God, if we will hear anyone is with Al Qaeda, even if he is still inside his mother's womb, we will kill him.”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
WaPo
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| July 18, 2007 | - Former congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years,” said DeLay, “we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
| Source:
Raw Story
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| May 9, 2007 | -
Reverend Al Sharpton promised that Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be defeated by “those that really believe in God,” and it was revealed that Romney's wife, Ann, donated $150 to Planned Parenthood in 1994.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
ABC
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| April 19, 2007 | - The United States
Supreme Court ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act is legal.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 1, 2006 | -
Republican
congressmen were attempting to define a twenty-week-old fetus as a “pain-capable unborn child.”
| Source:
CNN
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| September 18, 2006 | - Katelyn Kampf, 19, of Yarmouth, Maine, accused her parents of hog-tying and gagging her, forcing her into a car, and taking her to New York for an emergency abortion.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| July 17, 2006 | - Advisers at federally funded “pregnancy resource centers” were telling women that abortions increase the risk of cancer, infertility, and mental illness.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo News
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| April 28, 2006 | - The Louisiana state senate approved a bill that bans abortion except when the procedure can save a woman's life; an amendment to allow exceptions in the cases of women who have been raped or are victims of incest was defeated.
| Source:
Ms. Magazine
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| April 19, 2006 | - In Toluca, Mexico, a priest admitted to strangling and dismembering his pregnant lover after Easter mass.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| April 13, 2006 | - Scientists in Britain
found that human fetuses cannot feel pain.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 21, 2006 | - Cecilia Fire Thunder, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, vowed to use tribal land to provide abortions to South Dakotans, despite the state's near-total ban on the procedure. "I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land," said Fire Thunder.
| Source:
Indianz.com
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| March 17, 2006 | - A federal appeals court ruled that Tennessee may issue "Choose Life" license plates.
| Source:
AP via First Amendment Center
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| March 6, 2006 | - A study found that laws requiring minors to obtain parental consent before receiving an abortion have had almost no effect on the number of abortions performed. "I would have told my mother anyway," said a 16-year-old abortionee in Pennsylvania.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 4, 2006 | -
Wal-Mart announced that it would begin to sell the morning-after pill, but would not require pharmacists to fill prescriptions if the pill offends them.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 22, 2006 | - The South Dakota Senate passed a bill that outlaws nearly all abortions; victims of incest or rape are not exempt from the proposed ban. "I'm convinced," said a state representative, "that the timing is right for this."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 15, 2006 | - There was a shortage of women in India, possibly due to endemic female feticide; as a result, women can cost up to $136 each or more.
| Source:
The Toronto Star
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| December 20, 2005 | - In Lawrence, Kansas, three women quit their gym because there was a Christmas tree decorated with plastic fetuses in its lobby.
| Source:
WPXI.com
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| December 16, 2005 | - A Romanian shepherd found 80 human fetuses in a forest.
| Source:
The New Zealand Herald
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| November 27, 2005 | - The British government was investigating reports that up to 50 babies each year survive being aborted.
| Source:
Times Online
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| November 19, 2005 | -
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito attempted to distance himself from his statement, “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” which he wrote in an application for a job in the Reagan Administration. “It was a political job,” he clarified, “and that was 1985.”
| Source:
The Boston Globe
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| November 15, 2005 | - A Congressional investigation determined that the FDA decided to bar over-the-counter sales of the “morning after” pill before a scientific review of the pill was completed.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| September 30, 2005 | - During his radio program William Bennett, former U.S. Education Secretary, said, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
| Source:
WLTX.com
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| September 14, 2005 | -
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. was questioned by members of the Senate and managed to avoid direct answers to many of the questions posed to him. He did reveal, however, that "Dr. Zhivago" and "North by Northwest" were his favorite films. Antiabortion groups felt that Roberts was doing just fine.
| Source 1:
KPAX
Source 2:
The Washington Post
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| July 28, 2005 | - In Pinetown, South Africa, two little boys found a fetus without legs or a head; police said that they found no animal saliva on the fetus.
| Source:
The Mercury
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| July 19, 2005 | - President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts, a federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court. Roberts has criticized U.S. abortion policy, but is considered very handsome. “American women will love him,” said an editor at More Magazine. “I love thee,” commentator David Brooks wrote of the nomination, “with the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. I love thee freely.”
| Source 1:
AP
Source 2:
Times Online
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| May 13, 2005 | - Dr. W. David Hager, the George W. Bush-appointed adviser to the FDA and a vocal opponent of emergency contraception, abortion, and pre-marital sex, was accused by his ex-wife of anally raping her on a regular basis over many years. Hager is the author of the books As Jesus Cared for Women and, with his wife, Stress and the Woman's Body.
| Source:
The Nation
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| April 30, 2005 | - The state court of Florida blocked a thirteen-year-old girl from having an abortion. “Why can't I make my own decision?” the girl asked a judge. “I don't know,” the judge answered.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Sun-Sentinel.com
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| April 23, 2005 | - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who belonged to the Hitler Youth before he became a priest, won the papacy by a landslide and styled himself Benedict XVI. The new pope dislikes homosexuality (he moved quickly to condemn a Spanish bill that would permit gays to marry), abortion, and the death penalty, but he loves little kittens. In 2001, he ordered Catholic bishops to hide allegations against pedophile priests from the public.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Daily News
Source 3:
The Observer
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| March 3, 2005 | - A group of researchers at Stanford University were preparing to use stem cells from aborted fetuses to create a mouse that has human brain cells.
| Source:
News.telegraph
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| February 25, 2005 | - The attorney general of Kansas demanded that clinics in his state turn over the medical records of girls who have received abortions and women who have had late-term abortions.
| Source:
CNN
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| December 23, 2004 | - The Democrats were thinking of dropping abortion rights from their platform, in order to appeal to “values” voters; many Democratic leaders want to promote adoption over abortion.
| Source:
LA Times
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| November 20, 2004 | -
Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill. The bill had $15.8 billion worth of “extras,” including $25,000 for the study of mariachi music and $2 million to buy back the presidential yacht, sold by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, currently rents for $2,500 an hour. The bill also allows hospitals and HMOs to refuse to provide abortions, and gave two committee chairmen and their assistants access to income tax returns, without regard to privacy laws. Republicans acknowledged the mistake of the latter provision, and vowed to repeal it.
| Source 1:
USA Today
Source 2:
USA Today
Source 3:
sequoiayacht.com
Source 4:
LA Times
Source 5:
AP
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| November 11, 2004 | -
Jerry Falwell announced the Faith and Values Coalition, a revival of the failed Moral Majority. The new group will fight against abortion, homosexual rights, and Democrats.
| Source:
ABC News
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| November 5, 2004 | - Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania suggested that judicial nominees who do not support Roe v. Wade might have a hard time getting confirmed and immediately came under attack from conservatives seeking to prevent him from becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 27, 2004 | - A federal judge in New York City ruled that the Partial Birth Abortion Act is unconstitutional.
| Source:
Newsday
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| April 30, 2004 | -
abortion provider in Kansas City was accused of practicing fetal cannibalism.
| Source:
Wichita Eagle
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| April 26, 2004 | - More than one million abortion-rights advocates marched in Washington, D.C., and vowed to defeat President Bush in November.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 28, 2004 | - The Justice Department issued subpoenas to Planned Parenthood for abortion records.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 13, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft defended issuing subpoenas for abortion records and said that the records were necessary to find out whether doctors who have sued to overturn the ban on so-called partial-birth abortions are telling the truth when they say they have performed the procedure out of medical necessity.
| Source:
New York Times
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