It's illegal to perform an abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the state of Pennsylvania.
The first is that abortion after 20 weeks is in fact rare, so moves to outlaw it lack real-life bite.
There is a controversial theory put forward by economist Steven Levitt that the increased availability of legal abortion after the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 on Roe v Wade meant that fewer children were born to young, poor, single mothers.
Pro-lifers respond that the language is vague enough to allow bureaucrats to add abortion funding after the bill is passed.
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The European panel is currently reporting on Irish abortion laws after a 2010 judgment by the European Court of Human Rights that said the rights of a woman with cancer had been violated because she had to travel outside Ireland for an abortion.
He opposes abortion in all circumstances and has said he also opposes the morning after pill, which he equates to abortion.
Fifty years after the contraceptive pill was first licensed in America and 37 years after the Supreme Court legalised abortion, women seem to agonise more than ever about breeding.
Those lawmakers said they considered the measure to be redundant and a platform for opponents of abortion but were willing to let it pass after gaining reassurances that it wouldn't be used to undermine abortion laws or to interfere with physicians' judgments about how to treat premature babies.
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She said she was transformed from a "radical feminist" after she saw the negative impact abortion had on some of her friends.
The case came to light in 2009 after a woman died during an abortion at an illegal clinic in Algiers belonging to the main suspect.
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The plan to amend the law, revealed to the BBC, came after the opening of a private abortion and family planning clinic in Belfast last autumn.
The plan to amend the law, revealed to the BBC, comes after the opening of a private abortion and family planning clinic in Belfast last autumn.
In Missouri and Indiana, Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate lost races that their party initially expected to win after making widely criticized comments regarding abortion rights for impregnated rape victims.
Of the many dilemmas Germany faced after unification in 1990, reforming the abortion law proved one of the trickiest.
Earlier in March, the Republican-controlled legislature in the state of Arkansas enacted tough abortion laws, banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
It was withdrawn the following year after a successful legal challenge by anti-abortion campaigners led to a ruling that sections on counselling and conscientious objection should be rewritten.
In February, a judicial review in the High Court by the Family Planning Association (FPA) to have guidelines issued on the law on abortion in Northern Ireland, was halted after the department of health promised to publish draft advice within a week.
Evangelicals generally permit the use of birth control, but they object to specific methods such as the morning-after contraceptive pill, which they argue is tantamount to abortion.
Given that 73% of pregnancies ended in abortion and 20% of the calves died soon after birth, this paper surely confirms that it would be irresponsible to attempt to clone a person.
After Monday's verdict, the leader of one anti-abortion group said justice had been served.
The inquest is examining the circumstances of her death after her family claimed hospital staff repeatedly refused her requests for an abortion.
Last summer the health department decreed that all new health-insurance policies should cover birth-control services for women, including the morning-after pill (which most pro-lifers consider a form of abortion) and sterilisation.
However, her death, a week after admission, put the spotlight on the Irish Republic's confused abortion laws.
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In recent years, more abortion opponents have turned their attention to state legislatures, especially after gains by conservative lawmakers in 2010 elections.
But they say the Democrat's numbers have stabilized after slipping during the first half of October, and they insist that the abortion adds have started to move some voters in the D.
McCain advisers noted soon after the speech, there was no mention of the candidates' differing stands on abortion -- one issue which might have been expected to resonate with those women who supported Clinton and have been slow to warm to Obama.
But now, after Roe, they were splitting along more polarizing lines, with members switching sides based on their abortion views.
Soon after the Colorado Legislature passed the statute, "sidewalk counselors" -- anti-abortion activists -- sued, challenging the constitutionality of the "knowingly obstruct" clause under the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendments.
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