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Okla. law requiring women to get ultrasound before abortion challenged
Associated Press WriterOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Oklahoma...Tags: Trials, Reproduction, Brad Henry, Sexual Assault, Medical Specialization
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Kmiec and Catholics
Douglas W. Kmiec's support for Sen. Barack Obama speaks to the spiritual-religious continuum along which Catholics reside ("How Catholics can oppose abortion, back Obama," Commentary, Sept. 9). Voters with a spiritual sensibility recognize the...Tags: Barack Obama, La Grange
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Pro-Obama Catholic lawyer resigns board of conservative Catholic university to 'prevent harm'
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) _ A Catholic law professor who served on a high-profile panel formed to address the church's clergy sexual scandal has resigned from the board of a conservative Catholic university after writing a column supporting Democrat...Tags: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Abusive Behavior, Church and State Relations, Colleges and Universities
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It's my right to life, too
I've had an accident with my birth control. I've been raped by a stranger or incestuously. I have parents who never told me "the facts of life" because abstinence is the only way they want me to live. Or, I just plain don't want to carry a baby to term...Tags: Human Rights
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GOP Catholic backs Obama
Doug Kmiec went to mass, as usual, at Our Lady of Malibu on Tuesday morning. Then he drove up the hill to his office to talk to me by phone about how a Republican Catholic opposed to abortion could endorse Barack Obama. You may recognize Kmiec's name. He...Tags: Barack Obama, Easter, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Iraq War
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Palin Cautious In Mixing Faith, Policy
Los Angeles TimesAlthough in her race for governor she clamored for faith-based "intelligent design" to counter the teaching of evolution in Alaska's classrooms, Sarah Palin has not sought to require it in state schools, Alaska educators say. As governor and in her...Tags: Sarah Palin, Private Health Care, Government Health Care, Government, Regional Authority
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Family asks Ohio Supreme Court to force Planned Parenthood to release hundreds of records
Associated Press WriterCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that an abortion clinic's medical records on other patients are relevant to a lawsuit brought by parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent. Lawyers...Tags: Charles Miller, Altria Group, Local Authority, Lawyers, Trials
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Summary of actions Monday by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear cases in which: —A jury foreman read passages of the Bible to holdout jurors who subsequently voted to impose the death penalty in a Texas murder case. —Anti-abortion activists were trying to undo a...Tags: Trials, Punishment, Local Authority, TiVo Inc.
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Roe vs. Wade decision could hang in balance this election year
Los Angeles TimesEvery four years, defenders of abortion rights proclaim that the fate of Roe vs. Wade hangs on the outcome of the presidential election. This year, they may be right. Through most of 1990s and until recently, the Supreme Court had a solid 6-3 majority...Tags: Barack Obama, Republican National Conventions, Polls, Scranton, Tom Ridge
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Supreme Court lets stand $16 million judgment for abortion doctors in "wanted" poster case
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Supreme Court has rejected for the third time an appeal by anti-abortion activists to undo a multimillion-dollar verdict for their use of "wanted" posters to identify abortion clinic doctors. The justices did not comment Monday in...Tags: Local Authority, Demonstration, Hospitals and Clinics, Court Administration
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Issues such as immigration, economy have Hispanic evangelical voters facing dilemma
South Florida Sun-SentinelThey lean right on abortion and marriage, left on immigration and the economy. This election season, Hispanic evangelical voters are caught in a moral tug of war that has their Republican loyalties slipping, religious leaders say. Anti-immigrant...Tags: Barack Obama, Migration, University of Florida, Pembroke Pines, Marriage
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Viewpoint: High court on a precipice
I really hate to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. Congress makes "dysfunctional" sound like a compliment. But...Tags: Paris Hilton, Betty Ford, Whoopi Goldberg, National Government, Gerald Ford
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