abortion

An abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before full term brought about either by artificial means or through natural occurrence (in which case it is more commonly termed a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"). Two main methods of abortion are used in modern medicine, surgical and medical (using hormone tablets). Historically many other highly dangerous methods have been used.

There is considerable variation in abortion law around the world, ranging from the Netherlands which has abortion on request up to 22 weeks' gestation (and one of the world's lowest abortion rates), to Britain where it is legal up to 24 weeks (although a woman must get two doctors' signatures to approve the procedure), to Nicaragua, where there is a total ban on the procedure (which has been described as a denial of women's basic rights).

Bloggers using the tag are likely to be debating the legal and moral aspects of abortion. This is particularly a highly emotional issue within American politics.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “abortion”

• in Politics
  Roe V. Wade Anniversary? Oh Please.
  40 years post Roe V. Wade. What to think?
  by leovou / on Jan 25, 2013
• in Politics
  Barack Obama for President
  Your choice could not be clearer. Make sure you make it in the form of a vote.
  by jimmyzuma / on Nov 2, 2012
• in Politics
  Conception Through Rape NOT “Something That God Intended to Happen”
  Last Tuesday, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock made an absurd statement about pregnancies occurring through rape and incest.
  by efrank / on Oct 26, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “abortion”

 

• So Much for Fathers Day - in a Country Where Fatherhood is Dying Out

  
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  By the end of his or her childhood, a British boy or girl is much more likely to have a TV set in the bedroom than a father at home.   Our 45-year national war against traditional family life has been so successful that almost 50% of 15-year-olds no longer live with both their parents. At the same time we have ...
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• Pope Francisco Blessed Hundreds of “Easy Riders” and Their Harleys

  
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  _____________________________ On Sunday, Pope Francisco Bergoglio welcomed and blessed hundreds of Harley-Davidson bikers , in addition to tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for Angelus prayers. The manufacturer presented two of the iconic bikes to the pope this week. The ...
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• Constitutional Realization

  
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  There are plenty of stories and opinion pieces out there (like this one ) which bitch and moan that more infringement on keeping and bearing arms hasnt happened in light of the overwhelming emotional well provided by the 20 dead first-graders in Newtown. It seems that the leftie gun haters are coming to realize the ...
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• Obama administration persecutes Christians in the US: Snoops infiltrate, target, harass churches

  
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  Examiner.com has the story: On Thursday the Examiner provided an exclusive report indicating that the Obama administration had implemented a covert program beginning in 2009 that was intended to spy on conservative, evangelical Christian churches. That program involved infiltration — sending in government ...
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• "Believe me, I’ll tell you what, I’ve been through a spin dryer here in the last 48 hours, and I wish I hadn’t assisted them so much to that end..."

  
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  "But somehow in the long run, truth and time travel the same road. And we are very blessed that the Lord that we serve will prevail in the final analysis no matter what." Said Rep. Trent Franks’s (R-Ariz.) , whose "bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationwide now includes an exception for rape and incest after ...
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• If Late-Term Abortions Are Sacred Ground to Pelosi, She’s Like Kermit Gosnell

  
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  No matter how frustrating things are on Capitol Hill, we can all be grateful for one thing: Nancy Pelosi is no longer in charge. Regardless of the GOP’s flaws, the former Speaker reminded pro-lifers how much worse the leadership could be. During a press conference Thursday, the House Minority Leader picked a ...
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• 1923: Daniel Cooper, baby farmer

  
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  On this date in 1923, Daniel Cooper was hanged in Wellington, New Zealand for murder. Cooper and his second wife — his first died under suspicious circumstances; many people suspected Cooper of poisoning her — had a racket as a “health specialist” in the Wellington suburb of Newlands . Their “rest care ...
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• Irish PM ‘c’atholic Enda Kenny – what a classy guy

  
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  I read at the site of the Cardinal Newman Society (see their great RSS feed on my sidebar!), that that paragon of class the PM of Ireland Enda Kenny – pro-abortion  c atholic – has again stuck his nose into the Church’s business. Irish Prime Minister Tells Church to Stay out of Politics The pro-abortion ...
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• Erectile and government dysfunction.

  
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  I have to drop the following post on the eve of Fathers Day, so I honestly dont need any of you ladies laughing at it. Sometimes, as men, we have to suffer through certain trials and tribulations to get our....lets just say reproductive organ working in its proper order.  Take the case of poor Daniel Metzgar, ...
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• Evangelicals to GOP: Dont Betray Us Or Else

  
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  The so-called GOP establishment continues to struggle to control the Frankenstein monster that it created in the pursuit of short sighted expediency when it allowed the evangelical Christians - the Christofascists, if you will - to begin their infiltrating of the local city and county committees 15 to 20 years ago or ...
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• America’s Coming Demographic Disaster

  
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  That’s right. We just aren’t having enough babies. It’s this amazing, amazing change in what is really the central fact of the human condition. Throughout recorded history people have always had—not always but almost always had enough people, enough babies to sustain themselves, to sustain their civilizations ...
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• Anti-Choice Activist Completely Steamrolls Up with Steve Kornacki

  
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  Saturday morning cable news viewers looking for a few solid blocks of unadulterated anti-choice talking points may have found themselves tuned in to the wrong network this morning, as MSNBC’s Up with Steve Kornacki was the unlikely site of just such a spectacle. Charmaine Yoest , President and CEO of Americans ...
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• Kanye West Implies He Wanted Kim Kardashian To Have an Abortion and Their Baby is an Unfortunate Mistake – (AUDIO)

  
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  Wow, this has to be the absolute worst week of Kim Kardashian’s life and that says a lot all things (sex tape, quickie marriage/difficult divorce) considered. First we learned about one of Kanye West’s side dishes, Leyla Ghobaldi . Kanye has been banging her only two months into his relationship with Kim and ...
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• Trent Frankss Abortion Ban Now Has a Rape Exception

  
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  On Wednesday, Representative Trent Franks argued that the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortion after twenty weeks, did not need Democrat-proposed exceptions for rape or incest because, "The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low." The Republican-led House Judiciary ...
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• Let’s also talk about forced motherhood

  
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  While we’re having the interesting conversation about (largely hypothetical, given our current social context) issues of ‘forced fatherhood’, it’s also worth having a conversation about forced motherhood. Forced motherhood is, sadly, something that happens all the time, often with severe consequences that ...
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• The Grand Old Party is stuck on stupid | Crystal Wright

  
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  Following two presidential election defeats in 2008 and 2012, the Republican party is still making the same mistakes Stupid is as stupid does and, apparently, the Republican party didnt get Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindals " stupid memo " because it looks dumber by the day. After losing the 2012 presidential election ...
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• Shrage in NYT on ‘forced fatherhood’

  
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  With the prospect of father’s day ahead over the weekend, Laurie Shrage (left) has a piece for the New York Times confronting the issue of ‘forced fatherhood’, and whether (in limited contexts, namely, those in which women can in fact access contraception and abortion services) women’s reproductive autonomy ...
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• House Revises Abortion Bill After Rape Controversy

  
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  (WASHINGTON) — A House proposal to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks has been revised to include rape and incest exceptions after the Republican sponsor raised a storm by saying that very few rapes result in pregnancies. The change to the bill scheduled to come up for a full vote in ...
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• The Truth About the Tragic Death Of Savita Halappanavar

  
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  Photo courtesy William Murphy . Last October, Savita Halappanavar became a household name around the world in both prochoice and antichoice circles as news of her tragic death spread. Ms. Halappanavar was a 31-year-old dentist in Belfast, who emigrated from India. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a very much ...
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• Words Will Never Hurt Me: My Response to a Delusional “Democratic Diva”

  
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  "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool..." The post Words Will Never Hurt Me: My Response to a Delusional “Democratic Diva” appeared first on Live Action News .
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