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Women in Texas must now travel 20 times farther for an abortion as a result of the state’s new ban, according to an analysis of anti-abortion measures introduced in a half dozen states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Under Texas’s statewide ban, the average one-way distance a woman must travel to reach the nearest abortion provider would increase from 12 miles to 243 miles, according to a new study by the research group the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. “The greater the increase in travel distance, the greater the hardship it causes, and the more likely it becomes that some...

Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday. The group's failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year "was a tactical admission by Zarqawi that their strategy had failed," said Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps. "They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism," he said in an address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy....

yesterday i posted my first message on the free republic website i may of got some things wrong but it was my first thread. I dont think i will post another because of the more than harsh reply i got. goodbye