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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A federal judge struck down Virginia's ban on a type of late-term abortion Monday, saying the law violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception for the health of the woman. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams called the ban on what opponents call partial-birth abortion ``impermissibly void for vagueness.'' The judge blocked the law last July, the day it went into effect, calling it a ``no-brain case.'' He also has challenged the use of the term ``partial birth infanticide'' by the law's backers, saying it was an attempt to alarm the public. Virginia's law outlawed...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Several pro-abortion groups announced on Tuesday that they are planning a march on Washington, DC on April 25, 2004. The Feminist Majority, the National Organization for Women (NOW), NARAL and Planned Parenthood are combining their efforts for this gathering inauspiciously entitled "Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice." Talon News reported yesterday that pro-abortion advertising will begin airing nationwide this weekend in an attempt to generate support for the cause. "Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread and rumored anti-abortion replacements on the Supreme Court could serve for the next 40 years," concluded Kim Gandy,...