Copyright 2009 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, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156332.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156332.php A Georgia law (HB 388) that took effect on Wednesday allows state residents to "adopt" embryos created for fertility treatments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Gould Sheinin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/1). According to the Fertility Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156335.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156335.php The following summarizes news coverage of state abortion statistics in Minnesota and Wisconsin.~ Minnesota: The number of abortions performed in Minnesota decreased for the second consecutive year in 2008, according to an annual report from the state Department of Health, the Abortion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156334.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156334.php The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a clinic operated by Planned Parenthood-Southwest Ohio Region does not have to release 10 years of child abuse reports and medical records of minors who received abortions, the AP/Middletown Journal reports. Abortion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156145.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156145.php Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA are proposing a 2010 state ballot initiative with a different version of 2008's defeated "personhood" amendment to the state constitution, the Abortion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156139.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156139.php Nineteen House Democrats recently sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stating that they will not vote for health care reform legislation "unless it explicitly excludes abortion funding from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan," CongressDaily reports. Abortion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155961.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155961.php The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ " Women's Health / Gynecology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155776.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155776.php A federal judge will hear oral arguments on July 17 regarding a lawsuit challenging a South Dakota law that requires doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure will end a human life, the AP/Sioux City Journal reports. Planned Parenthood, which operates the state's only abortion clinic, appealed the law after it was passed in 2005. U.S. Abortion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155775.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155775.php Massachusetts-based Catholic hospital system Caritas Christi Health Care on Friday ended its joint venture with the Missouri-based health insurer Centene after Cardinal Sean O'Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston insisted that the relationship linked Catholic hospitals too closely to abortion providers, the Abortion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155774.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155774.php Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is "about right" on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, the Abortion Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155607.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155607.php The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.~ "Another Abortion Case Developing," Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog: The decision by the full U.S. Women's Health / Gynecology Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155604.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155604.php Pope Benedict XVI has agreed to meet with President Obama at the Vatican on July 10, according to White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The Rev. Women's Health / Gynecology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155493.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155493.php The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in a 6-5 decision on Wednesday upheld Virginia's 2003 law banning what abortion-rights opponents call "partial-birth" abortion, a procedure known medically as intact dilation and extraction, the AP/Hartford Courant reports (O'Dell, AP/Hartford Courant, 6/24). Abortion Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155496.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155496.php The Arizona Senate on Tuesday approved two abortion-related bills, including one that would increase requirements for obtaining abortions in the state and one that would increase penalties for performing a certain abortion procedure later in pregnancy, the Arizona Republic reports. The first bill ( Abortion Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155330.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155330.php President Richard Nixon, who was in office when the Supreme Court issued its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, in secret recordings from January and February of that year discussed his views on abortion with an aide, the New York Times reports. Abortion Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155168.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155168.php "Just because something is legal -- and should be legal -- does not mean it is always ethical," Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for Choice, writes in a Abortion Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155169.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155169.php The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.~ "'Anonymous' Republican Senator Obstructs Resolution To Condemn Clinic Violence," Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check: On Thursday, an unnamed Republican senator "used his power to put a 'hold'" on a resolution ( Abortion Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155163.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155163.php The National Right to Life Committee last week held its national convention in Charlotte, N.C., attracting as many as 1,300 antiabortion-rights advocates from around the U.S., according to event organizers, the Charlotte Observer reports. Abortion Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155164.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155164.php Missouri Judge Patricia Joyce last week dismissed conspiracy allegations against three state officials and approved the summary and cost estimate for a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban public funding for abortions and certain types of embryonic stem cell research, the AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Abortion Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154970.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154970.php A group of 10 abortion-rights opponents on Saturday held a memorial service outside murdered Kansas abortion provider George Tiller's Wichita clinic, after counter-protests from abortion-rights supporters "thwarted the event for most of the day," the AP/Yahoo! News reports. Abortion Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154975.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154975.php After the murder last month of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, "there is a very real danger" that the availability of abortion later in pregnancy "will end in this country -- not after publi Abortion Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154817.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154817.php Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday circulated talking points stating that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has a "mainstream record of judicial modesty," the AP/Miami Herald reports. The document includes a quote from Sotomayor expressing her belief in basing judicial decisions on the Constitution rather than on politics.Meanwhile, Abortion Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154821.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154821.php The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.~ "A Radical Notion: Women's Health Care as Mainstream," Cecile Richards, Huffington Post blogs: "To hammer ... Abortion Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154644.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154644.php Three weeks after President Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee to the Supreme Court, 53% of U.S. adults say they do not know enough about her to determine whether they would support her confirmation, according to a New York Times/CBS News Abortion Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154643.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154643.php Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in conversations with senators has indicated her support for Roe v. Wade, even if she has not explicitly stated that she supports abortion rights, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. Abortion Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154469.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154469.php Advocates on both sides of the abortion-rights debate are anticipating the White House's release of its "common ground" reproductive health proposals, including policies aimed at preventing unintended pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion, U.S. News & World Report reports. Abortion