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Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights said they will continue to fight the waiting period. “The forced delay requirement has nothing to do with patient health,” Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, said in the News Channel 5 report. The abortion industry argued that Tennessee’s policy harms “low-income and communities of color” even as pro-life advocates point out that while black Americans account for about 14 percent of the child-bearing population in the United States, 36 percent of abortions are black babies. “Abortion is health care and we at Planned Parenthood...

Ke’Shon Newman’s daily routine is guided by guns — the hundreds of illegal pistols, revolvers and other firearms that torment his South Side neighborhood. […] The Auburn Gresham neighborhood is flooded with illegal guns: .40-caliber pistols, .380 semi-automatics, .38-caliber revolvers. Police recover as many as they can, searching apartments, stopping cars, cornering people on the street. A buy-back in June brought in hundreds of firearms. And in September, the mayor and other dignitaries gathered to mark a milestone: Police in the 6th District had recovered their 1,000th gun this year. […] Chicago’s gun violence has captured the national spotlight in...

© 2010 jbjd James E. Clyburn (D-SC) is the only Congressman citizens of the Palmetto State's Sixth Congressional District have known since a contentious re-apportionment created the oddly shaped majority minority district in 1992. Here's how he describes the Sixth on his Congressional web site. "The Sixth District contains five of the state’s six poorest counties and has the state’s lowest per capita income...home to inadequate public schools, high unemployment rates, widespread poverty and alarming rates of strokes, diabetes, and prostate cancer. Textile plants have closed... tobacco farmers ...have seen their livelihood evaporate... The Sixth has suffered from decades of...