Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest Abortion News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/abortion/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113944.php The number of HIV-positive women in Belarus who are forgoing abortions is increasing, Svyatlana Shylava, chief ob-gyn for the country's Ministry of Health, said on Tuesday, BelaPAN reports. According to Shylava, about 176 infants were born to HIV-positive women in 2007, up from 52 in 2000 and six in 1996. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113926.php Richmond, Va., Roman Catholic Bishop Francis DiLorenzo in a letter published on Monday apologized after Commonwealth Catholic Charities employees helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl obtain an abortion in January, the Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113924.php A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the First Amendment rights of two antiabortion advocates were violated when they were ordered to stop circling a Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., middle school in a truck displaying graphic images of aborted fetuses, the Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113776.php The number of abortions in Wisconsin declined for the fourth year in a row in 2007, marking the lowest recorded number since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, according to a report by the state Department of Health and Family Services, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113774.php Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Monday officially ended its relationship with an affiliate once known as Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties after a March review found many problems, including harassment complaints, plagiarism and possible mismanagement of nearly $450,000, the Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113632.php The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined how "changing social values and economic realities, as well as demographic shifts" have contributed to an apparent increase in the number of abortions in the Middle East. According to the Times, abortion is illegal in much of the Middle East. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113387.php Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) on Friday vetoed a bill (SB 1048) that would have banned so-called "partial-birth" abortion in the state, the AP/Tucson Citizen reports. Napolitano's veto letter says that there is already a federal law ( Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113385.php Conservative leaders on Thursday met with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in Cincinnati to urge him to talk more about social issues to encourage conservatives to vote for him in November's general election, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113384.php Jim Wallis, an evangelical leader and editor of the liberal Christian journal Sojourners, rejected recent reports that indicated he wanted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to add a plank to the Democratic Party platform urging a reduction in the number of abortions performed, Newsweek reports. On Wednesday, an Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113383.php On Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled 7-4 that South Dakota can begin enforcing a 2005 law that requires physicians to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," the AP/Google.com reports. However, the decision sends the case back to U.S. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113226.php President Bush's announcement on Thursday to withhold all U.S. funding for the seventh consecutive year for United Nations Population Fund is "appalling," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes in the blog "On the Ground. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113227.php A proposed antiabortion amendment to the Montana Constitution that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a "person" failed to gather enough signatures to be placed on the November ballot, the Montana'sNewsStation.com reports (Montana'sNewsStation.com, 6/25). Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112817.php A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Monday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to clarify whether a state law restricting the use of the abortion drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486, "explicitly limits" use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy before ruling on whether the law is constitutional, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112655.php Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes in an opinion piece that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) "sent a clear message" to Democrats who "gravitated" toward Republican candidates because of their opposition to abortion rights by appointing Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) as the head of his National Catholic Advisory Council. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112654.php "Is it politically naive to be surprised" that former Bush administration Chief of Staff Karl Rove will be the keynote speaker at next month's annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee, New York Times reporter Peter Steinfels writes in a Times' Beliefs column. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112653.php Antiabortion advocates responded with "swift and loud" opposition to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's (D) line-item veto of a provision that would have prohibited $100 million in state biomedical funds from being used for research that involves human cloning, the AP/Akron Beacon Journal reports. Strickland recently signed a $1.57 billion economic stimulus package ( Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112652.php West Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Russ Weeks, a strong abortion opponent, has "seized upon" a recent report by the state Department of Health and Human Resources showing an increase in the number of abortions in 2006 to criticize antiabortion Gov. Joe Manchin (D), the AP/Charleston Daily Mail reports. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112309.php Colorado Right to Life, which was not allowed to set up a display table at the state Republican Party convention Monday, said the party is ignoring its base and is headed for defeat in November, the Denver Post reports (Hoover, Denver Post 6/18). Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112323.php "Abortion in the U.S.: Utilization, Financing and Access," Kaiser Family Foundation: The updated fact sheet provides data on the levels of use of different abortion procedures in the U.S. and reviews federal and state policies that affect availability of and access to services. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112307.php The Arizona Legislature gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill (HB 2269) that bans nurse practitioners from performing surgical abortions, as well as a measure (SB 1048) that would ban so-called "partial-birth" abortion in the state, Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112099.php The antiabortion groups Christian Defense Coalition and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust on Wednesday announced their plans to protest the Democratic National Convention in Denver from Aug. 25-28, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112048.php Commenting on the rising numbers of abortions in the under 16 age group Julie Bentley, Chief Executive fpa said: "Now must be the time to make sex and relationships education compulsory and taught in every school in the country. Younger women are making different choices about their lives and choosing abortion over motherhood, but education and contraceptive services will stop them becoming pregnant in the first place. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112040.php The following National Statistics were released recently by the Department of Health: Abortion Statistics, England & Wales: 2007 Main findings: In 2007, for women resident in England and Wales: the total number of abortions was 198,500, compared with 193,700 in 2006, a rise of 2.5% the age-standardised abortion rate was 18.6 per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44, compared with 18. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111950.php The Arizona Senate on Monday voted 18-6 to pass a bill (SB 1048) that would ban so-called "partial-birth" abortion in the state, Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star reports. Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) vetoed a similar but not identical bill ( Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111948.php Ten female Democratic senators on Tuesday released a "checklist for change" that aims to discourage female voters who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the presidential primary elections from supporting Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in the general election, The Hill reports.