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Mississippi Rejects 'Personhood' Amendment
A big win for supporters of abortion rights tonight in Mississippi: Voters rejected a "personhood" ballot initiative declaring that life begins at conception, reports the AP . It would have effectively...
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Party's Over Conservatives, Prepare for Battle
Charles Krauthammer thinks the 2011 elections were a clear warning to conservatives: “The 2010 party is over. 2012 will be a struggle,” he writes in the Washington Post . In Ohio voters easily rejected...
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Georgia Democrat Seeks 'Personhood' Amendment
A pair of Georgia lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation similar to the "personhood" amendment defeated in Mississippi last week . The bill—which would declare a fertilized egg to be a person,...
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Va. House Passes Bill That Could Outlaw Abortions
The Virginia House of Delegates passed two abortion-related bills yesterday, and the AP isn't mincing words in describing them, or the process, saying the GOP supermajority "muscled [through] two of...
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Oklahoma Senate Passes 'Personhood' Act
The Oklahoma Senate has passed a controversial bill that declares that life begins at the moment of conception, in a landslide 34-8 vote. The Personhood Act passed yesterday after two hours of debate....
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Beware the Birth Control Grizzlies
Forget the mama grizzlies. In 2012, Hell may hath no fury like a woman voter scorned by the right, reports Politico . Between Rick Santorum's call for states to be able to ban birth control, Komen's...
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Virginia Senate Puts Fetus 'Personhood' Bill on Ice
Virginia's state Senate made a surprise about-face yesterday: In a 24-14 vote, lawmakers effectively placed the so-called "personhood" bill, which declared that a person's rights begin from the moment...
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Oklahoma Court Blocks 'Fetal Personhood' Measure
Oklahoma's Supreme Court has rejected a "clearly unconstitutional" ballot measure that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person, effectively banning all abortions in the state. The nine...
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Ohio Personhood Initiative Fails
Another setback for the "personhood" movement: An anti-abortion group in Ohio has failed to gather enough signatures to be able to ask voters to amend the state constitution to declare that life begins...
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No Freedom for 2 Chimps Being Used for Research
Two chimpanzees being used for mobility research at Stony Brook University in New York will not be released to a sanctuary because a state supreme court judge has dismissed the lawsuit seeking to grant...
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Party's Over Conservatives, Prepare for Battle
Charles Krauthammer thinks the 2011 elections were a clear warning to conservatives: “The 2010 party is over. 2012 will be a struggle,” he writes in the Washington Post . In Ohio voters easily rejected...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Georgia Democrat Seeks 'Personhood' Amendment
A pair of Georgia lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation similar to the "personhood" amendment defeated in Mississippi last week . The bill—which would declare a fertilized egg to be a person,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Va. House Passes Bill That Could Outlaw Abortions
The Virginia House of Delegates passed two abortion-related bills yesterday, and the AP isn't mincing words in describing them, or the process, saying the GOP supermajority "muscled [through] two of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oklahoma Senate Passes 'Personhood' Act
The Oklahoma Senate has passed a controversial bill that declares that life begins at the moment of conception, in a landslide 34-8 vote. The Personhood Act passed yesterday after two hours of debate....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beware the Birth Control Grizzlies
Forget the mama grizzlies. In 2012, Hell may hath no fury like a woman voter scorned by the right, reports Politico . Between Rick Santorum's call for states to be able to ban birth control, Komen's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Virginia Senate Puts Fetus 'Personhood' Bill on Ice
Virginia's state Senate made a surprise about-face yesterday: In a 24-14 vote, lawmakers effectively placed the so-called "personhood" bill, which declared that a person's rights begin from the moment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oklahoma Court Blocks 'Fetal Personhood' Measure
Oklahoma's Supreme Court has rejected a "clearly unconstitutional" ballot measure that would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person, effectively banning all abortions in the state. The nine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ohio Personhood Initiative Fails
Another setback for the "personhood" movement: An anti-abortion group in Ohio has failed to gather enough signatures to be able to ask voters to amend the state constitution to declare that life begins...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Freedom for 2 Chimps Being Used for Research
Two chimpanzees being used for mobility research at Stony Brook University in New York will not be released to a sanctuary because a state supreme court judge has dismissed the lawsuit seeking to grant...
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This State's Bill Grants Fetus the Right to Be HOV Passenger
Pregnant but don't have a carpool companion? In Virginia, new legislation seeks to allow you to use the HOV lane anyway, counting your fetus as a second passenger. But reproductive rights advocates are...
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