Petition launched to fight China’s force sterilizations following woman’s death
HUBEI PROVINCE, China (WordNews.org) April 8, 2013 – A women’s rights group is launching a petition against “coercive family planning” in China following the death of a mother of two who was forcibly sterilized to avoid “illegal pregnancy.” Shen Hongxia was forcibly sterilized by the local Family Planning Officers on March 19 against a doctor’s […]
Read More →The morning after … the ruling: Abortion pill now available for kids, no parent approval needed
NEW YORK (WordNews.org) April 6, 2013 — A group is calling for the impeachment of a New York federal judge who ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must make the morning-after abortion pill, also known as Plan B, available to anyone regardless of their age. Judge Edward Korman’s ruling overturns a 2011 decision […]
Read More →Planned Parenthood closing 4 clinics in Wisconsin over funding
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisconsin (WordNews.org) Feb. 19, 2013 – Planned Parenthood is closing four clinics in Wisconsin as a result of budget cuts, the Chippewa Herald is reporting. Teri Huyck, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Wisconsin, told the Herald the abortion provider need state funding to keep its offices open, but those fund were cut […]
Read More →Planned Parenthood challenges Wisconsin law
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WordNews.org) Dec. 12, 2012 – Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is challenging a new law which requires that a woman wanting to purchase the morning after abortion pill to be seen in person. Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in federal court to drop the in-person requirement. “As a leading provider of women’s health care […]
Read More →Indiana Senate candidate Mourdock gets support from pro-lifers
NEW ALBANY, Indiana (WordNews.org) Oct. 25, 2012 – Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, is received support from pro-lifers and presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mourdouck created a firestorm when he said during a debate with his Democratic rival Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning that he opposed abortion even in the case […]
Read More →Man who threatened pro-life priest receives 41-month sentence
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (WordNews.org) Oct. 22, 2012 — Theodore Shulman, a pro-choice activist who in 2010 threatened to kill several pro-life leaders, has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, according to Priests for Life. Shulman, 51, pleaded guilty in May to one count of transmitting a threat to injure another […]
Read More →Liberty Counsel files brief in support of Arizona ban of late-term abortions
SAN FRANCISCO (WordNews.org) Oct. 13, 2012 – Liberty Counsel has filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals urging the court to uphold a law passed in Arizona that makes abortions after 20 weeks illegal. “In keeping with medical advances, history and common sense, the Arizona Legislature has said that a 20-week-old […]
Read More →God returns to Democrat platform, so does taxpayer-funded abortion
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WordNews.org) Sept.6, 2012 – At the Democratic National Convention, delegates voted to add God back into its platform. But Liberty Counsel Action, a Christina lobby organization, said that platform also endorses taxpayer-funded abortion. Democrats “strongly and unequivocally support Roe v. Wade,” the platform reads, “regardless of ability to pay,” Liberty Counsel recounted. Eight […]
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