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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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  • Sisters of the Gospel of Life — Authority Authority: 103
    We came across an interesting posting by  Kristen Walker  who muses about what needs to change before abortion can come to an end.  She compares the current abortion situation with the ending of slavery and how society had to change their attitude towards coloured people before slavery could end. The same is true ...
    18 hours ago

  • Ending Abortion


    Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative — Authority Authority: 103
    We came across an interesting posting by Kristen Walker  who muses about what needs to change before abortion can come to an end.  She compares the current abortion situation with the ending of slavery and how society had to change their attitude towards coloured people before slavery could end. The same is true ...
    18 hours ago

  • On free speech and reproductive rights


    Off the Kuff — Authority Authority: 124
    I must say, I was a bit flummoxed by this story . The City of Austin might repeal a 2-year-old ordinance requiring some facilities that counsel women with unplanned pregnancies to post signs saying they don’t offer abortions or contraceptive services. The four Austin facilities affected by the ordinance sued the ...
    18 hours ago

  • St Rochs’ High School


    Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative — Authority Authority: 103
    In the last couple of weeks here at the Initiative we were invited into  St Rochs’ High School, Glasgow  to do a number of talks on abortion.  This is a new acquaintance for both parties and it was great to establish a link which we hope will flourish. Talks on the methods of abortion, the Catholic Churchs’ ...
    19 hours ago

  • St Rochs’ High School


    Sisters of the Gospel of Life — Authority Authority: 103
    In the last couple of weeks here at the Initiative we were invited into St Rochs’ High School, Glasgow to do a number of talks on abortion.  This is a new acquaintance for both parties and it was great to establish a link which we hope will flourish. Talks on the methods of abortion, the Catholic Churchs’ ...
    19 hours ago

  • North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Calls For Bringing Back Public Hangings, Starting With Abortion Providers


    Progressive News Daily — Authority Authority: 134
    By Marie Diamond Think Progress.org The last legal public hanging in America took place in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. The “event” attracted 20,000 people and turned into such a sickening spectacle that many credit it with ending the practice in the U.S. But one North Carolina Republican believes that ...
    19 hours ago

  • Abortion


    Homil? — Authority Authority: 107
    ‎"The only issue where the secular humanists of our day do not want the evidence of science to bear weight on the issue is the issue of abortion - at 8weeks in the womb it is scientific fact that a baby has brainwaves, a heartbeat, functioning liver, functioning kidney, a fingure print & recoils from a prick. ...
    21 hours ago

  • Happy anniversary of Roe v Wade!


    Progressive News Daily — Authority Authority: 134
    from an email dated 1/26/2012 Anne Slater National Organizer Radical Women Happy 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the monumental U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States! Abortion is a simple medical procedure that is vital for women to exercise any form of ...
    21 hours ago

  • Sunday Reads: Occupy Superbowl, Alveda King throws women under bus, and the big homeless


    Sky Dancing Blog — Authority Authority: 562
    Vintage ad for a Sunday Drive... It is Sunday Morning… All day yesterday, I kept thinking it was a Friday. It is strange how days have a certain “feel” about them… If you missed any of yesterday’s posts, Wonk the Vote and PeggySue and Dakinikat and  BostonBoomer had some excellent post, take a ...
    1 day ago

  • Why Poll Data Doesn’t Matter


    Gender Focus — Authority Authority: 416
    This article was originally posted at Anti-Choice is Anti-Awesome . Cross-posted with permission. Peggy Cooke is a reproductive justice activist and former abortion clinic worker living in Toronto, ON. She likes feminism, grammar, and sharks. So, I guess there’s been an Angus Reid poll that found that 51% of ...
    2 days ago

  • Governor Romney to Skip Third Consecutive Social Conservative Event


    American Conservative Daily — Authority Authority: 142
    Washington D.C. (PRWEB) January 25, 2012Governor Romney was the only Republican presidential candidate who claimed to be prolife, yet refused to sign Personhood USA’s Personhood Pledge, which quoted and affirmed the Republican Party Platform on abortion.
    2 days ago

  • Diane Abbott: The abortion counselling consultation is a con – which is why I pulled out


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    With a fact-free campaign, Tory MPs are attempting to bring the worst of the US abortion debate to British politics Just when you thought it was safe to go out, the right wing of the Conservative party have resurrected their fact-free campaign about abortion counselling. It is important to stress that there are ...
    3 days ago

  • THE FRUIT OF THE WOMENS MOVEMENT:


    BrothersJudd Blog — Authority Authority: 508
    A hidden cause of Baltimores population loss : abortion: Citys rate of terminated pregnancies is indicative of a wayward society (Diana Schaub, January 23, 2012, Baltimore Sun) The decline of marriage, particularly among African-Americans, is all too familiar. Not as well-known is that Maryland has a very high ...
    3 days ago

  • Va Board of Health to take up abortion-clinic regs


    Capital Land — Authority Authority: 144
    ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia Board of Health is developing permanent state regulations governing clinics that ...
    3 days ago

  • Abortion Safer Than Childbirth For Women


    Sports n Health — Authority Authority: 99
    Having a legal abortion is safer than carrying a baby to term, according to a new study. The study disclosed that the risk of death associated with a full-term pregnancy and delivery is 8.8 deaths per 100,000, while the risk of death linked to legal abortion is 0.6 deaths per 100,000 women. “Regardless ...
    3 days ago

  • Get Shortey: he thinks there’s a plot to slip human foetuses into the food chain


    The Freethinker — Authority Authority: 459
    RALPH Shortey is an Oklahoma state senator who this week got himself branded as “hilariously delusional” after he tabled bill that would ban the use of aborted human foetuses in food products. According to this report , the ridiculous Republican and ardent Christian pro-lifer said he filed the bill after reading ...
    3 days ago

  • “Abortion is as American as Apple Pie” — The Culture of Death Finds a Voice


    Jesus Lives! — Authority Authority: 133
    From Albert Mohler.Com Abortion is now one of America’s most common surgical procedures performed on adults. As many as one out of three women will have at least one abortion. In some American neighborhoods, the number of abortions far exceeds the number of live births. Most Americans will pay little ...
    3 days ago

  • Obama: abortion can help daughters ‘fulfill their dreams’


    The Christian Institute News — Authority Authority: 525
    Abortion helps daughters “fulfill their dreams”, the US President has declared in a statement to mark 39 years since the legalisation of abortions in America. President Barack Obama asserted he was “committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose” an abortion and said the government “should not intrude ...
    3 days ago

  • Abortion safer than birth?


    American Conservative Daily — Authority Authority: 142
    In just the last few days, abortionists claimed that abortion is safer for women than giving birth, President Obama called abortion a "fundamental constitutional right," and Planned Parenthood celebrated "whats happened" to women since Roe v. Wade.
    3 days ago

  • March for Life


    Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative — Authority Authority: 103
    Here’s a glimpse of what can be achieved with fantastic organisation and a belief in standing up for what’s right.  The American pro-life movement seem to have got the whole pro-life publicity show brilliantly executed and this short video  ...
    4 days ago

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