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		<title>Abortion controversies: New developments prompt new debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion rights and health care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion and politics: New battlegrounds in a decades-old conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, voters in Mississippi defeated a “personhood amendment” that would have defined a person as existing from the moment of the fertilization of an egg. If passed, Proposition 26 might have upended the debate over abortion. But the vote showed how the battle over abortion rights is increasingly taking place in the states.]]></description>
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		<title>Bioethics: A guide to experts and resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are confronting challenges in bioethics every day and in every venue, from hospital rooms and research labs to Congress and the Supreme Court. Developments in genetics, debates over the beginning of life and the fate of embryos, and technologies that extend and even create life are raising complex questions in medical decisions and treatment.]]></description>
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		<title>The abortion debate heats up: ReligionLink&#8217;s resources and experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion always sparks discussions about this hot-button issue, and the annual March for Life in Washington is one focus of attention. But the Republican takeover of the House has also raised hopes -- and concerns -- that new legislation could limit abortion rights. ]]></description>
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		<title>The abortion debate: A new poll, plus experts and organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two pending developments are contributing to an escalation of the nation’s long-standing debate over legalized abortion: health care reform and the anticipated release of proposals, developed by a White House task force, aimed at reducing abortion. This edition of ReligionLink provides resources to help reporters navigate the volatile issues at stake. A large-scale survey from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion doctor killed: Issue takes center stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killing of a Kansas abortion doctor has thrust the issue of abortion rights and abortion violence into the headlines again. George Tiller was shot to death Sunday, May 31, 2009, while serving as an usher at his Lutheran church in Wichita. A 51-year-old suspect, Scott Roeder, was apprehended later that day, and the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to beginning-of-life issues</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_080218.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest stages of the development of human beings, from conception through the period shortly after birth, are fraught with life-and-death issues. Whether concerned about the fate or welfare of a particular embryo, fetus or baby, or hoping to benefit from a reproductive technology or stem cell research, countless individuals and families in every part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. policies on sexual health care under fire globally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public health experts are forcefully criticizing U.S. policy for limiting access to reproductive and sexual health care in the developing world. As some religious leaders call for a broadening of how conservative Christians respond to AIDS abroad, health experts are blaming deteriorating health in the Third World on what they see as the Bush administration&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court upholds ‘partial-birth abortion’ ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED APR. 18, 2007: The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday (April 18, 2007) that the federal law banning the so-called “partial-birth abortion” procedure does not violate a woman’s right to an abortion. The ruling was considered a victory for abortion opponents. The procedure, usually carried out in the second or third trimester of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to covering abortion issues</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_051024a.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The national debate over abortion is boiling again with changes to the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court and two pivotal abortion cases on its docket this fall. At the same time, state legislatures continue to wrangle over competing bills aimed at curbing or expanding access to abortions. ReligionLink offers an updated guide to covering [...]]]></description>
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