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An 18-year-old Dominican immigrant charged two months ago with illegally inducing an abortion by taking anti-ulcer pills will not face homicide charges, prosecutors said yesterday. Prosecutors had been considering the more serious charge after Amber Abreu prematurely delivered a 1-pound girl named Ashley at Lawrence General Hospital on Jan. 6. She died four days later. Abreu, a Lawrence resident, allegedly admitted that she had taken three Cytotec pills before giving birth, an abortion method that is common in some Latin American communities, authorities said. Abortion is illegal in Massachusetts after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and any action to cause a...

A Massachusetts woman who was arrested after she used an anti-ulcer drug to kill her unborn child talked about her decisions. Amber Abreu, 18, used the drug to cause an abortion even though its maker warns it shouldn't be utilized for that purpose. She now regrets her decision. "If I could turn back the clock, I would do things differently," Abreu told the Eagle Tribune newspaper in an interview. "Those people who judge me don't know what I'm feeling inside." After using the drug, which failed to kill the child immediately, Abreu gave birth to a baby girl January 6...

James Pendergraft (Photo courtesy Operation Rescue) When a sidewalk counselor at James Pendergraft's Orlando, Fla., Women's Center abortion clinic encountered a man who told her he was delivering his baby's body to the clinic, she called police but they declined to investigate, and there is reason to believe that decision violated at least two laws that should have been controlling in the situation, according to an expert on the issue. Officials with the Orlando police department declined to return multiple messages left by WND, and declined to respond to a written question officials told WND to submit about the...

WITH the confirmation last week of John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States, eyes turned to President Bush's next judicial nominee, who, on a closely divided court, may determine the fate of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that recognized a woman's right to an abortion. But such speculation overlooks a paradox in the abortion wars: while combatants focus on the law, technology is already changing the future of abortion, with or without the Supreme Court. Even if the court restricts or eliminates the right to an abortion, the often-raised specter of a return to back-alley...