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”

 

• Virginia’s Republican Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Believes the Democratic Party is a ‘Coalition of the Godless’

  
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    May 20, 2013 By Hemant Mehta The Virginia Governor’s race is already shaping up to be incredibly expensive and polarizing , pitting former Democratic National Committee chair Terry McAuliffe against Tea Party darling (and textbook conservative Christian) Ken Cuccinelli . Ken Cuccinelli (via ...
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• House 20-Week Abortion Ban Hearing a ‘Farce,’ Says Leading Democrat

  
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  Written by Sarah Posner for RH Reality Check . A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on a bill that would impose an unconstitutional nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization. Four witnesses sat at the table during that hearing, but there was really only one ...
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• Persecution or Statutory Rape?

  
  Stand Firm — Authority: 147
  If you’ve opened a news page somewhere in the free world this week, you’ve probably read the headlines :  Teen Girl Arrested for Same Sex Relatonship;  Florida Teen Arrested, Expelled for Same Sex Relationship to name but a few.  Catchy phrases like Free Kate - Stop the Hate have begun popping up.  MCJ ...
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• Book Review: Embryo—A Defense of Human Life

  
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  In the wake of the Kermit Gosnell trial, it is safe to say that the elite Western culture no longer recognises the unborn human being as a life worthy of protection. It does not even seem to be worth our sympathy. The killing of a newborn child is now, in journalistic newspeak, merely “inducing labour and ...
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• Congress Critter: All Your Uteri are Belong to Us

  
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  What do you say to a woman who tells you how a anti-abortion bill you’re supporting would have forced her to give birth to a fetus that was missing a significant part of it’s brain and would have most likely died in agony? If you’re Republican representative Louis Gohmert of Texas, you express your sympathy. ...
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• Wither The West

  
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  My sixth grader recently learned in his social studies (we don’t call it history anymore) classes how democracies rise and fall, and that most fall from within. He gets it. I get it. Many of you get it. But leaders in the western world don’t seem to get it, and neither do most of the politically correct, ...
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• Dem Rep: The Cure For The Kermit Gosnells Of America Is More Funding For Planned Parenthood

  
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  According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, the cure for the Kermit Gosnells of America is to give the abortion mill Planned Parenthood even more funding so they can put an office in every neighborhood of every city. You know, reproductive rights and all. The way to prevent abortionists like ...
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• "Almost every one of the pregnant women I spoke to had suffered a mandatory abortion."

  
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  "One woman told me how, when she was eight months pregnant with an illegal second child and was unable to pay the 20,000 yuan fine (about $3,200), family planning officers dragged her to the local clinic, bound her to a surgical table and injected a lethal drug into her abdomen." For two days she writhed on the ...
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• The rhetorical approach to selling eugenics

  
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  ... is not to emphasize positive over negative iterations of the idea, or even, as Ive done in the past , to focus on the consequent egalitarianism that these approaches, if put into practice, will presumably foster. No matter how delicately broached and amenably angled, its inevitably received as being too harshly ...
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• VIDEO OF THE DAY: MEGYN KELLY DESTROYS JACK McMAHON!

  
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  Although this took place two days ago…this is a must watch! Megyn Kelly took Kermit Gosnell’s defense lawyer to task regarding many issues that occured during the trial and the verdict thereafter, she tore McMahon to shreds in various ways! You have to listen to the heartfelt passion from Megyn Kelly when she ...
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• Baltimore abortion clinics lose licenses again

  
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  Baltimore Sun : State health regulators have suspended the licenses of several abortion clinics owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care for the second time after an employee with no health care license or certification gave a patient a drug to induce an abortion at the Baltimore facility.
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• Doc To Congress: Abortion Not Necessary To Save Women’s Lives

  
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  Turtle Bay and Beyond : Dr Anthony Levantino, an OBGYN of 30yrs who performed 1,200 abortions testified before congress that abortion in the second trimester or later is not medically necessary to save women’s lives.
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• NH Sunday News report: State Official says there’s “no such thing” as an abortion clinic in NH

  
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  New Hampshire’s statutory definition of “physician’s office” has apparently been a factor in shielding abortion facilities from oversight, according to a recent report in the state’s largest-circulation newspaper. In a front page story on May19 credited to a team of reporters, the New Hampshire Sunday News ...
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• Iowa Right to Life: Battle Against Abortion Is Far From Over

  
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  Yesterday the Iowa House, along with a few other bills, passed the Health and Human Services Budget and adjourned “Sine Die.”  They are done for the year.  We were very hopeful and worked up to the last hours of the session to convince both chambers and both parties to take action to end taxpayer funding of ...
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• D.C. Federal Court Asked to Halt Enforcement of HHS Mandate against Ohio Company until Decision Rendered in Case on Appeal

  
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  Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed an unopposed motion for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, requesting that the court enjoin the Obama administration from enforcing the HHS “contraception” mandate against Johnson Welded Products, Inc.
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• Gosnell’s Conviction Focuses Attention on Fetal Pain Abortion Bans

  
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  By BRIAN FRAGA | WASHINGTON — The murder trial and conviction of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell may have increased public awareness and sympathy to unborn children who are capable of feeling pain in the womb as early as 20 weeks after...
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• Lila Rose Equates Anti-Choice Movement with the Womens Movement and Revolutionary War

  
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  Lila Rose Equates Anti-Choice Movement with the Womens Movement and Revolutionary War At a rally in Germantown, Maryland this week, anti-choice activist Lila Rose compared the effort to bring about “the complete end of abortion” with the abolitionist movement, the civil rights movement, the ...
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• Becket Fund’s Statement Following 10th Circuit Hearing on Hobby Lobby

  
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  Becket Fund : We are encouraged by today’s hearing before the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals,” said Kyle Duncan, General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and counsel on the case. “Being heard before all eight judges – rather than the typical three-judge panel – signifies the importance ...
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• Anti-Choice Leader: Rape Is Like A Car Accident, So Women Should Buy ‘Extra Insurance’ For Abortion

  
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  Arguing that Michigan women should be forced to buy separate insurance coverage for abortion services, even in the cases of rape or incest, a prominent anti-choice leader in the state claimed that paying extra money to terminate a pregnancy resulting from rape is the same thing as paying extra money for car insurance ...
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• Court hears Hobby Lobby’s challenge to part of health-care law

  
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  Denver Post : Federal judges peppered lawyers for the federal government and Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. with questions Thursday as the two squared off over the corporations challenge to a part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
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