City seeks opinion on abortion clinics From Inside NoVA The Manassas city council voted Wednesday to allow the city attorney to contract with Virginia attorney William H. Hurd for a second opinion on whether the council can regulate abortion and other clinics in the city. McDonnell states "It is my opinion that the greater weight of the law suggests that the City Council has limited authority to enact an ordinance consistent with its charter, general statutory law, and constitutional jurisprudence, regulating abortion clinics, including one...

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Obama On Abortion From Atlantic Online In fairness to them, my staff had written them using standard Democratic boilerplate language to summarize my pro-choice position during the Democratic primary, at a time when some of my opponents were questioning my commitment to protect Roe v. And that night, before I went to bed, I said a prayer of my own - a prayer that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me.

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Abortion, War, and Moral Priorities From Free Liberal I was at my local Catholic church one Sunday recently and had the opportunity to listen to a homily from a priest that made me question both my own values and the Church s. This was not a protest, but prayer, and I felt that although I don t believe 100% of the Church s teachings on birth control, abstinence, and abortion the plea for people to put the church s message into action was commendable. After all, a church without any people is not really a church at all. Certainly the anti-war...

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Herald wrong to print abortion ad From UW Badger Herald Plan B pill) as a powerful dose of steroids that tricks your body into thinking it is pregnant. To start, the Plan B pill is a dose of hormones, not steroids, usually progestin but sometimes also estrogen, equal to the amount of hormones that can be found in four to five regular birth control pills. I often see in the media that the Plan B pill is referred to as the abortion pill, which is completely wrong. Furthermore, all of the current information states that this pill is not effective if...

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South Dakota group rekindles push to ban abortion From Minnesota Public Radio Photo: #Leslie Unruh and Mary Glenski are spokespeople for the Vote Yes for Life campaign. Two years ago, voters defeated a law passed by the South Dakota Legislature that would have banned abortion in the state. The law would ban abortions except to protect the life and health of a pregnant woman, or in cases involving rape or incest. Glenski said that two years ago, 56 percent of voters rejected the ban.

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