NARAL Pro-Choice America To Release Ad On McCain’s Opposition To Abortion Rights
NARAL Pro-Choice America will release a new video advertisement today attacking Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s (Ariz.) position on abortion rights and Roe v. Wade, the Boston Globe’s “Political Intelligence” reports.
Blogs Comment On HHS ‘Conscience’ Rule, Faith And Voting, ‘Pro-Life Feminists’
The following summarizes recent women’s health-related blog entries.~ “Huge Economic and Health Costs of New HHS Regulation Dismissed,” Inimai Chettiar, RH Reality Check: An analysis of an HHS draft
Psychological Effects Of Abortion Deserve ‘New Dialogue,’ Editorial Says
Although it is “well-known” that a woman has choices when she is pregnant, “what is not fully known … is that each of these choices has long-term effects for both the parents,” a Washington Times editorial says, adding, “An abortion, much like” carrying a pregnancy to term or choosing adoption, is “not consequence-free.
Slate Opinion Piece Examines Support For Obama Among Female Voters Who Oppose Abortion Rights
With the economy becoming the dominant issue of the presidential campaign, some Democratic female voters who voted for President Bush because of his opposition to abortion rights are taking that issue “off the table, at least for now,” author and Slate contributor Melinda Henneberger writes in an opinion piece.
Challenge To Okla. Law Requiring Ultrasound Before Abortion; Media On State Ballot Initiatives
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on Thursday against an Oklahoma state law (SB 1878) that requires a woman seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound and requires doctors to describe the image, including various dimensions of the fetus, while the woman faces the screen, the
Palin Accuses Obama Of Being A ‘Radical’ Abortion Rights Supporter, Criticizes Record In State Senate
Time magazine this week explored the latest in a series of personal attacks made by the McCain presidential campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). According to Time, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov.
Fpa Launches New Viral Video Campaign To Persuade MPs To Vote To Extend The 1967 Abortion Act To Northern Ireland
Today sees the launch of the first viral video campaign aimed at Westminster MPs to secure an equal right to abortion for the women of Northern Ireland. Women in Northern Ireland do not have the same right to abortion as British women and suffer discrimination every day. Sexual health charity fpa, has created four viral videos, each a minute long, to persuade MPs why they must extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
Poll Of Younger Religious Voters Shows Culture War Over Issues Including Abortion May Be Fading
Young Roman Catholics are more likely to support abortion rights in all or most circumstances than older Catholics, according to a survey of young religious voters conducted by Public Religion Research and released Wednesday by the group Faith in Public Life, the
Blogs Comment On Obama’s Abortion Stance; Supreme Court; Access To Contraception
~ “Media, Obama Afraid of Abortion Issue,” John Jakubczyk, ProLifeBlogs.com: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) “does not want to talk about his radical abortion position” and has deliberately “stay[ed] far away from that very volatile issue” to avoid losing support from Christian voters, Jakubczyk writes in a blog entry.
Chance For Supreme Court Nominations Is ‘Sleeper Issue’ Of Presidential Campaign, Opinion Piece Says
The “sleeper issue” of the presidential campaign is the potential for Supreme Court nominations under the next president, who “could have a tremendous impact on the Court well into this century with even one nomination,” Wendy Long, counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, writes in a Washington Times opinion piece.
U.S. Ban On Contraceptives To Marie Stopes Clinics In Africa Will Lead To More Deaths, Abortions, Opinion Piece Says
The recent announcement by the Bush administration that U.S.-financed contraceptive supplies no longer can be distributed by six African countries through the British aid organization Marie Stopes International is the “latest bout of reproductive health madness,” according to
Colo. Gov. Ritter Lines Up Against So-Called ‘Personhood’ Initiative Despite Opposition To Abortion Rights
On Tuesday at a rally, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D), who opposes abortion rights, voiced his opposition to the state’s Amendment 48 — a November ballot initiative that would define a fertilized egg as a person in the state constitution — the
