An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
World news
 
  6 March 2011

USA: Mother of anti-abortion poster child complains

A New Jersey mother is angry to find her 6-year-old daughter’s face on a provocative anti-abortion billboard in New York, Associated Press reports.

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  2 March 2011

Commentary: Funding bill indicates difficult climate for pro-choice movement

Jennie Bristow reflects on the significance of the proposed de-funding of PPFA.

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21 February 2011

USA: Vote to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding

Republicans have voted to cut money for contraceptives, HIV tests, cancer screenings and reproductive health services as part of an attempt to weaken the abortion provider, the Huffington Post reports.

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  17 February 2011

USA: South Dakota homicide bill postponed

A state bill to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include killing someone in the defence of an unborn child has been indefinitely postponed after an uproar over whether it would put abortion providers at greater risk. 

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2 February 2011

USA: Research finds that most men supportive of abortion decisions

Eighty-two percent of women obtaining abortions in the United States report that the men by whom they got pregnant knew about the abortion, and nearly eight in 10 perceived these men to be supportive, research by the Guttmacher Institute shows.

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  25 January 2011

USA: Doctor charged with illegal abortions

The case of the Philadelphia doctor charged with performing illegal late abortions and infanticide has sparked a wider discussion. 

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  12 January 2011

USA: New study of abortion trends

The steady decline in the US abortion rate since 1981 appears to have stalled, new research by the Guttmacher Institute finds. 

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