Political issues are usually divided into two major categories: social issues (like abortion, drug use, gay marriage, or capital punishment) and economic issues (like welfare, taxes, and health care).

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Obviously, there is some overlap between the two categories and issues like abortion or drug legalization could be seen as having economic aspects, but the separation of social and economic issues helps to illuminate and clarify political ideologies for analytical purposes.

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But she soon learned the fetus had no heartbeat, and she had to undergo a drug-induced abortion.

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And abortion opponents are stepping up their calls for the drug to be pulled from the market.

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Some faith-based funds, for example, shun drug companies because of their work on abortion-related treatments or stem cell research.

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In Colorado last week a Safeway pharmacy gave a 17-year-old pregnant woman methotrexate, a drug used for chemotherapy and to induce abortion, instead of the antibiotic that had been prescribed.

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The Food and Drug Administration says it is investigating two more deaths associated with the abortion pill RU-486.

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Recently-delayed approvals include a new drug designed to slow the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, the french abortion pill RU-486, and new uses for thalidomide, which caused serious birth defects when first introduced in the 1950's.

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