Bill would ban sex- and race- selection abortions
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“ ‘Today in America, 40 to 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually one in two, are killed before they are born, which is a greater cause of death for African-Americans than heart diseases, cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and violence combined,’ Franks said at a hearing on the legislation.” The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011
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"I don't see any abortion clinics. Sorry about that."
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“Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-activated ‘assistant,’ is being accused of wanting to prevent abortions by giving obscure answers to users searching for abortion clinics, leading to speculation that Steve Jobs, who confessed he was glad to not have been a victim of abortion, might have intentionally made the programing ‘glitch.’” Is the iPhone’s ‘Siri’ Really Trying to Prevent Abortions?
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One "problem with the incremental strategy is also simple. It empowers the pro-abortion candidates"
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Of Political and Theological Divides – A Way Forward on Abortion There is a divide that now noticeably exists among Christian political activists across the United States surrounding the answer to the question: should activists demand abortion be outlawed outright, or should they choose instead to incrementally reduce abortion out of existence by the application of varying degrees of aggravating regulatory laws?
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DNC Chair: Personhood Amendment Is ‘Extreme and Radical’
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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) said Thursday legislators in states such as Mississippi, Ohio and Texas are taking “an extreme and radical step” by proclaiming that life begins at conception. She also called the personhood amendment “divisive” and “dangerous.”
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Mississippi Baptists back "Personhood Amendment"
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If approved by voters, the initiative would amend the Mississippi Constitution to define the terms “person” or “persons” to “include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.”
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Arizona's Abortion new law contributes to end of abortion "services" at 7 local Planned Parenthood facilities
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“The pro-life law, which requires a notarized parental signature before a minor can have an abortion, and provides women with accurate information by a doctor in person at least 24 hours before an abortion, will now take effect in the state of Arizona.”
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