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Blogger Says Women Should be Forced to Cross State Lines for Abortions Because Decision “Should Be a Tough One”

Photo: Natches Trace.

Is only one abortion clinic in the state really the same as “down the street?”

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Mississippi Right to Life President Not-So-Subtly Compares Women to Dogs

Photo: Nevada Missouri.

Is this a step up or a step down from calling them livestock?

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Five of Seven Mississippi Hospitals that Denied Admitting Privileges to JWHO Doctors Now Under Investigation for Misuse of ERs

The Jackson Women's Health Organization (Trip Burns/Jackson Free Press)

The chain of hospitals that was afraid to offer admitting privileges to doctors who performed abortions are being investigated for their own potentially corrupt emergency room practices.

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Misleading Poll Used to Support Michigan Super Bill

Current Facebook cover photo for the Michigan Catholic Conference.

The Michigan Catholic Conference is doing everything it can to drum up support for anti-choice bills during the lame duck session, including biased polling on their agenda.

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Indiana Right to Life Fails to Close Clinic Under Americans with Disabilities Act

Cathie Humbarger. Photo: World News Inc.

A new ploy to close down a local clinic that provides abortions was rejected by the federal government.

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As Access to Safe Abortion Care Diminishes in Arizona, Rural Women Face Growing Hurdles

Cathi Herrod. Photo: MyGay.Net.

Now that only doctors can perform abortions, rural women in the state have very limited options.

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Mississippi Clinic Denied Hospital Admitting Privileges Mandated by TRAP Law

Protesters outside the clinic. Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/The Associated Press via The Times Picune.

Almost every hospital has responded, and all are saying “no.”

 

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Virginia Board of Health Succumbs to Threats From Cuccinelli, Passes Medically-Unnecessary Restrictions

Ken Cuccinelli. AP Photo.

Today, in a striking decision, the Virginia Board of Health allowed lies, ideology, and politics to triumph over medical science and the rights of women when it imposed medically-unnecessary restrictions on reproductive health providers.

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Mississippi TRAP Law Has Not Gone Into Effect But Already Affecting Clinic

Protesters outside Mississippi's last abortion clinic. AP Photo.

The state legislature may not have been able to shut down Jackson Women’s Health Organization with its new law yet, but it has already had an effect on their financial well being.

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Cuccinelli Seeking to Override Virginia Medical Board

Ken Cuccinelli. AP Photo.

Not happy that the Board of Health isn’t shutting down more Virginia abortion clinics, the Attorney General is telling them to meet again.

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