Blue States Target Little Sisters of the Poor
Link - Led by California and Pennsylvania, a number of states are challenging the Trump administration's religious and moral exemptions from the federal contraceptive mandate.
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CDC National Figures for 2014 Show Depth and Breadth of Abortion's Decline - Part One of Two
Link - U.S. Centers for Disease Control reinforces earlier Guttmacher report that abortions, abortion rates, and abortion ratios had dropped to levels not seen since the early 1970s.
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ACOG suddenly substitutes "fetus" for "baby" in popular pamphlet
Link - The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a major advocacy group of women's health care physicians, quietly replaced Patient Handout #156, entitled "How Your Baby Grows During Pregnancy," with a new version replacing the word "baby" with "fetus."
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Remembering Pro-life Hero Henry Hyde
Link - Wednesday marked the tenth anniversary of the death of the greatest champion the pro-life cause has ever known, Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois.
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Federal Trial Court Strikes Down Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban
Link - A federal trial court in Austin has struck down a Texas law prohibiting the practice of dismemberment abortion. The court issued its ruling one day before Thanksgiving.
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Assisted suicide cannot be a priority for end-of-life policy
Link - As a physician watching assisted suicide go from public policy to "medical" practice here in California, I see my own patients with chronic, life threatening illnesses as, perhaps inadvertent, but vulnerable targets of this dangerous legislation.
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New CLI Report Sounds the Alarm on Euthanasia of Disabled Persons by Denial of Food and Water
Link - A new report by Charlotte Lozier Institute Associate Scholar Bobby Schindler sheds light on the widespread legality of euthanasia by denial of food and water as well as recent legislative attempts to redefine these basic, ordinary needs as medical treatment, calling on the medical and legal communities to bring their approach to states of diminished consciousness into line with current neuroscience and to protect vulnerable patients' human rights.
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