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ACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving distances and studied passenger rail routes as they scanned the map for another place to offer services if the U.S. Supreme Court lets states restrict or eliminate abortion rights. They chose Carbondale in Illinois - a state that has easy abortion access but is surrounded by more restrictive states in the Midwest and South. It will be the southernmost clinic in Illinois when it opens in August. "I think at this point, we all know the stark reality that we´re facing in Tennessee. We are going to lose...

“Lets Be Very Clear, Planned Parenthood is Not a Small Business” Dr. Paul Holds SBA Accountable Rumble...

FULL TITLE: California Assembly passes bill specifically exempting abortion clinics from surgical building code standards The state of California, who often leads the nation in laws and legislation, has taken a step backwards, as the California State Assembly passed an act to amend the current health and safety code in state medical facilities in a manner that would allow Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics to have fewer requirements, allowing them to perform their life-taking surgeries in non-surgical facilities. Assembly Bill 980 passed Friday and now moves to the Senate for debate. Assembly Bill 980 amends current California building codes...

TORONTO, December 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study of Canadian women finds that pregnant women who are married suffer less partner abuse, substance abuse, and post-partum depression than women who are cohabitating or single. Dr. Marcelo Urquia, an epidemiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, found that about one in 10 married women (10.6 per cent) suffered partner abuse, substance abuse, or post-partum depression. However, 20 per cent of women who were cohabitating but not married suffered from at least one of those three conditions. The figure rose to 35 per cent for single women who had never married—and...

Six years ago, Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania bought and renovated a historic Downtown building that it uses for family planning services and abortion procedures. If a bill passed this week by the state Legislature is signed into law, the organization would soon be in possession of a building wildly out of compliance with new rules holding abortion clinics to the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. "What we expect is that the majority of abortion providers in Pennsylvania would be shut down for some time," said Rebecca Cavanaugh, vice president for public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania....

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- More details are emerging in a case where a counselor at the UCLA student health center advised a pregnant student to have an abortion. The woman in the case, a pro-life student posing as a pregnant teenager, says Planned Parenthood attempted to advise her to disguise statutory rape. In an undercover investigative story for a student-run newspaper, UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a pregnant 15 year-old and entered a Santa Monica Planned Parenthood. She told officials there that a 23 year old man had impregnated her and her article in The Advocate newspaper says...

NASHVILLE — Tennessee would collect death certificates for aborted fetuses under a bill introduced in the General Assembly. Rep. Stacey Campfield said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed in Tennessee. The measure would also likely create public records on which women are having abortions. "All these people who say they are pro-life — at least we would see how many lives are being ended out there by abortions," said Campfield, R-Knoxville. The measure would give abortion providers 10 days following an "induced termination of a pregnancy" to file a death certificate with the...

PROPOSITION 85 is a deceptive rehash of last year's Proposition 73, the parental-notification act that voters rejected. Under the guise that this is a proposition about child safety and parental rights, its backers are claiming that it's all about keeping parents involved in their children's lives when it comes to making such a decision as difficult as whether or not to have an abortion. Don't be fooled. Proposition 73 was a bad idea, and Proposition 85 is still a bad idea. Though the backers have stripped some of the measure's objectionable language -- a phrase that sought to embed wording...

Stresses Scandal of Receiving Communion while supporting Abortion VATICAN, July 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican held a press conference today to present the "Instrumentum laboris" (working document) for the Eleventh Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled to be held in the Vatican from October 2 to 23, 2005 on the theme: "The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church." The document, drawn up on the basis from Church leaders throughout the world to a draft called the "Lineamenta", lamented "the fact that too many faithful receive communion without having sufficiently reflected...

PIERRE, S.D. - A federal judge on Thursday blocked a South Dakota abortion law from taking effect, tentatively ruling that the statute is an unconstitutional violation of doctors' free speech. The law would have required abortion doctors, starting Friday, to tell women that abortion ends the lives of "human beings" and poses medical and psychological risks.U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier of Rapid City ruled that Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, which sued the state, has shown it has a good chance of prevailing in court."The South Dakota statute requires abortion doctors to enunciate the state's viewpoint...

TORONTO, Jul 12, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - Spokesmen for the abortion industry in Canada say they "fear" that World Youth Day pilgrims "will block access to abortion clinics." Hundreds of thousands of Catholic youths from around the world will gather in Toronto next week for World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II. Carolyn Egan, with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, says the term "direct action," used by some pro-lifers planning activities during the event, "means intimidation, harassment, and attempts to prevent women from gaining access to abortion clinics." "We're very afraid," Egan claimed, "of what might happen." Paul Tuns,...