Anti-abortion groups jolted by election defeats

Despite election setbacks on many fronts, anti-abortion leaders sound more defiant than deflated as they brace for a future with fewer friends in high places.

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Abortion Backers, Foes Square Off in Miss.

Hundreds of abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters squared off in a contentious rally Saturday with both sides proclaiming Mississippi a new key battleground state in the fight over Roe v. Wade.

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S.D. House Approves Bill to Ban Abortion

South Dakota lawmakers approved a ban on nearly all abortions Friday, setting up a deliberate frontal assault on Roe v. Wade at a time when some activists see the U.S. Supreme Court as more willing than ever to overturn the 33-year-old decision.

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They are calling it the Manhattan Declaration, a 4,700-word manifesto reaching into scripture and signed by 148 Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical leaders.

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The co-author of a House amendment that would exclude abortion from health care reform says efforts to overhaul the US's health care system will fail if the amendment is removed.

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Considering how ashamed and fearful many women are sharing they've had one abortion, it's pretty annoying that a woman gets a book deal for telling everybody how she's had over a dozen.

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An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by a woman doing time for abortion clinic bombings and arsons. An autographed bullhorn.

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A new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women's abortions to the State's Department Of Health, which will then post the collected data on a public website.

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Support for abortion rights has fallen sharply in the past year, with Americans now split roughly 50-50 between those who back legal access to abortion and those who oppose it, according to a new survey.n 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000 …

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excerpt: "" Not to put too fine a point on it, but Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is not exactly known as a towering intellect, although he's a panderer to wingnuts par excellence.

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OWOSSO, Michigan — Dr. James M. Pouillon, a Grand Rapids podiatrist who had not spoken to his father since 2001, criticized him and the attention he's getting in a post on a story about Harlan Drake, the man accused of killing Pouillon's father, James L. Pouillon, on Sept. 11.

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Anti-choice group says it's going broke and needs an emergency cash infusion. I don't doubt the plea will pry open the coffers of some wealthy "just-deserts" aristocrats, restoring the group's activities.

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An anti-abortion activist gunned down in a shooting was praised as an unwavering worker for his cause, even if some people didn't agree with his approach of holding a sign depicting a dead fetus.

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Our party has made it clear to the religious right that there will be NO payments for abortion in ANY plan for health care reform. Gee, you would think that would satisfy them.

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State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High School. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victim and the suspects family's.

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Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley last night issued a forceful defense of his decision to participate in the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, an appearance that has drawn sharp criticism from some conservative Catholics because of Kennedy's ardent support for abortion rights.

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This article is three pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page, with fewer graphics, click here. At the end of a day of performing one abortion after the next after the next, LeRoy Carhart phrases the question himself.

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Organizers of an Anchorage event that has been billing Sarah Palin for weeks as a star speaker were left scrambling Wednesday after learning that the former governor won't be there for tonight's event and claims to have never been asked.

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A Christian group has filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health alleging that the Obama Administration's stem cell policy violates federal law, reports the online newspaper Kansas Liberty.com.

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A mid-July USA Today/Gallup survey finds 47% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" and 46% "pro-choice." This is less positive for the "pro-life" position than was true in a Gallup survey in May.

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Two articles on the topic. A brief one from the Times of India: Vatican to cast out doctors, women for abortion pill useAs Italy authorised the use of the abortion pill Mifepristone, the Vatican threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe it and women who take the pill.

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It did not take long for anti-abortion leaders to realize that George R. Tiller was more formidable than other doctors they had tried to shut down.

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The woman at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights ruling was arrested today at the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings and several of whom made it into  …

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Today the Republican Party sent me a "Republican Senate Leadership Survey". I am only a member since it became necessary during the 2008 primaries for Ron Paul supporters. The survey really disgusted me.

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Weeks after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his Kansas church, the U.S. Senate is debating a resolution condemning violence against abortion providers.

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When Duran visited a local crisis pregnancy center, she was counseled by the center's receptionist -- yes, the receptionist -- and the director of the clinic.

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A suburban "mother-to-be" has infuriated the right-to-life community in America by admitting a blog she had written for more than two months tracking her pregnancy with a child diagnosed with a terminal disease was nothing more than a fantasy, albeit one that had attracted an onl …

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Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancyThe unmarried mother's story about giving birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb hit a major nerve on the Internet.

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