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”

 

• New Lawsuit Against Obamacare

  
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  National Review : Sam Kazman and Michael Carvin have a great Forbes op-ed about their new Obamacare lawsuit, which could invalidate key portions of the law in the 33 states that did not set-up state-based health-insurance exchanges. Essentially, the lawsuit alleges that the IRS illegally rewrote the Affordable Care ...
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• Va. GOP lieutenant governor nominee under fire for comments on abortion, homosexuality

  
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  Washington Times : But by Monday, Mr. Jackson, the first black candidate Republicans have chosen to run statewide since 1988, was being slammed by critics for statements he’s made in the past likening Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and that gays and lesbians are “very sick people psychologically, mentally, ...
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• Dems look to crack down on anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centers’

  
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  The Hill : The legislation is aimed at crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are clinics often set up by a church or other anti-abortion groups. Democrats in Congress and other pro-abortion groups say these clinics are known to indicate they can perform abortions in order to attract pregnant women patients, and then ...
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• Shocking Abortion Study In Great Britain from 2012, Life Of Mother Argument Crushed

  
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  Less Than Half of 1% of All Abortion Performed in The UK Were For Medical Reasons, i.e "Life Of The Mother" Of the 6.3 Million Abortions Performed in the UK from 1968 to 2011 only 143 or (0.006%) were performed for immediate threat to the "Life of the Mother". Only .37% (less than half of 1%) were performed over ...
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• Kermit Gosnell Was Not an Exception

  
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  Caution: Graphic Content. A second house of horrors abortion clinic is being investigated in Texas, just days after Dr Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering newborns at his Philadelphia termination center. Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during ...
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• What if we applied pro-aborts’ anti-intellectualism to other scientific questions?

  
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  The more abortion debates center around babies developed enough to think and feel and resemble adorable newborns, the more pro-lifers gain a nigh-insurmountable advantage. The savvier pro-aborts clumsily try to change the subject or qualify that of course they’d only allow abortions for extreme medical circumstances ...
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• Abortionist Who Twists Off Babies’ Heads Killed Woman In Failed Abortion

  
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  Excerpted from LIFE NEWS The similarities between convicted abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell and Houston-based abortion practitioner Douglas Karpen are striking. Not only does Karpen kill babies born alive following abortions in a similar procedure that more closely resembles infanticide than abortion, but ...
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• People Ain’t Isht: NYC Man Kills And Sets Pregnant 14-Year-Old Girlfriend On Fire After She Refused To Get An Abortion

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" This is just too sad … Man Kills Teen Girlfriend After She Refused Abortion Via NewsOne reports: The man accused of killing a 14-year-old Brooklyn teen did so because she allegedly told him she was pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion ...
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• Star Parker: "Why Do Pro-Choice People Promote Abortion Instead Of Childbirth?"

  
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  Asks the conservative Republican commentator in D.C. : "The left, so called pro-choice activists, have an interesting concept of a culture of responsibility. That is to promote a culture that detaches sex from love and responsibility, that minimizes the central importance of family, that justifies youth sex, ...
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• Man Takes 12-Year-Old to Planned Parenthood for Abortion to Hide Rape

  
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  LifeNews : A man in Washington state took a 12-year-old girl to a Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion to cover up his sexual assault on the teenage girl. The abortion business apparently did the abortion without hesitation.
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• Catholic Woman’s Almanac {CWA}

  
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  with Jenny at Suscipio Tell us what you’re thankful for…a gratitude list. Spring is finally here and my garden is growing!!! all  at once daffodils, tulips, lilacs and siberian  irises are blooming! What are you  thinking? Thoughts on nature Colossians 1:16-17 For by him all things were created, in heaven and ...
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• NY: Man murdered 14-year-old girl, tried to set her on fire because she refused abortion, police say

  
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  LifeSiteNews : A 20-year-old man has confessed to smothering a 14-year-old girl, keeping her body in a suitcase, and trying to set her remains on fire because she would not have an abortion, police say.
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• Reproductive Rights Updates: Arkansas, Virginia, & National

  
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  Earlier this year, Arkansas legislature overrode the governors veto to enact one of the most restrictive anti-autonomy laws in the country, banning abortion after 12 weeks of gestation. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted a temporary injunction , putting the law on hold. For now. Judge ...
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• Kermit Gosnell: Epiphany for Birthers? | John B. Londegran at Public Discourse

  
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  John B. Londegran at Public Discourse : It is neither the impossibility of writing clear laws nor our inability to witness abortion that stops us from making it illegal. Instead it is the will to kill for convenience that drives some people to sustain the fiction that human life begins at birth.
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• Abortion Doc Who Kept Remains of 35 Aborted Babies Loses License

  
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  LifeNews : The Maryland Board of Physicians has permanently revoked the license of abortionist Nicola I. Riley in a scathing 24-page order issued May 6, 2013, that prohibits her from ever again applying for licensure or reinstatement of her license.
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• Workers in facilities like Gosnell’s and Karpen’s ‘are starting to panic’: pro-life leader (video

  
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  LifeSiteNews (includes video): Operation Rescue recently sent a postcard to abortion facilities all over the country telling its workers and assistants, “Dont go to jail for something your employer is doing or told you to do!” In the Karpen case, Operation Rescue, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and Abby Johnsons ...
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• Cardinal skips Boston College commencement in abortion protest

  
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  Presence of Irish prime minister Enda Kenny, who supports bill to allow abortion, prompts Cardinal Sean OMalleys withdrawal Cardinal Sean OMalley, the leader of the Boston archdiocese, skipped Boston Colleges commencement on Monday because of the involvement of the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, who supports a ...
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• Arizona Congressman Wants To Expand His DC Abortion Ban To Restrict Reproductive Rights Nationwide

  
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  Not content with attempting to impose his anti-abortion agenda upon the women who live in the nation’s capital, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) now intends to push for a nationwide bill to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks. Franks, who invoked the illegal abortion provider Kermit Gosnell to justify his decision to ...
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• Blame Feminists: Illegal Immigrant Rapes 12 Year Old Girl Then Uses Planned Parenthood To Hide Pregnancy

  
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  File this under  how feminism helps promote rape and the abuse of underage girls. Their irrational opposition to any restriction to abortion, particularly parental notification, hurts underage girls. From the Bellingham Herald : An Everson man who impregnated a preteen girl and forced her to have an ...
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• Politicians excommunicate themselves by supporting abortion, says Irish archbishop

  
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  In all the media and political whirlwind over the weekend surrounding the British government’s same sex marriage proposals and the Irish government’s disastrous legislative proposals on abortion, there could be heard the still small voice of Archbishop Eamon Martin, ordained Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh last ...
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