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Abortion - Surgery Procedures & Risks - NY Times Health Information
Back to Top Description Abortion may be performed using medicines or surgery. A non-surgical, or medical, abortion can be done within 7 weeks from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. A combination of prescription hormone medicines are used. The doctor may give you the medicines ...
The When and the Why of Abortion
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — Ed Kilgore : Here is the real deal on abortion policy: activists on both sides of the... abortion debate understand yet rarely acknowledge that a critical plurality of Americans don't much like abortion but care a whole lot about when and why abortions ... (more) The When and the Why of Abortion
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Religious Beliefs of Health Care Workers to Trump Those of Patients
Hit & Run — ... A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job discrimination laws. ...

Pre-empting FOCA?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... to abortion and contraception.  Objections have come from within the administration itself and from states and providers over the new rules, which they claim greatly overreach already-existing protections and obliterate compromises reached on these issues.  It appears that President Bush has decided to pre-empt the Freedom of Choice Act as his last major domestic effort: A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, ...

Hillary Clinton and Patty Murray introduce legislation to block HHS Rule
Crooks and Liars — ... A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job discrimination laws. ...

How’s That Federally Funded ESC Research Going?
Pirate's Cove — ... research, drawing criticism both from abortion opponents and from scientists who had expected a more liberal policy. ...

How’s That Federally Funded ESC Research Going?
Stop The ACLU — How’s That Federally Funded ESC Research Going? Posted on April 18, 2009 Mixed bag: Some Stem Cell Research Limits Lifted The Obama administration announced Friday that it planned to lift some but not all federal financing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, drawing criticism both from abortion opponents and from scientists who had expected a more liberal policy. Guidelines proposed by the National Institutes of Health to carry out an order made last month by President Obama would allow research with federal ...

or, to put it another way: in your face, teabaggers!
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... democrats were forced to make major concessions on insurance coverage for abortions to attract the final votes to secure passage, a wrenching compromise for the numerous abortion-rights advocates in their ranks. ...

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