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...power to work for the pro-choice team as well. The abortion pill shifts the focus from the latest stage of pregnancy to the earliest, when the entire embryo is the size of a grain of rice. For abortion-rights activists scarred by five years of fighting over "partial birth" abortions, that is where they prefer the public debate to take place...
...thorny issue of abortion a talking point at the debate as well. While Bush, who opposes abortion rights, said he would not try to overturn the approval if he was president, he said he was against a culture that accepts more abortions and restated his opposition to partial-birth abortion...
Billed as safer than birth control pills, some 3.6 million units were sold in the U.S. The shield was pulled from the market in 1974 after design defects and poor medical directions were accused of causing injuries and sterility...
...will take the drug. "This is a sad day for women," said a spokesperson for the Family Research Council. Pro-choice groups, longtime supporters of the drug, expressed gratification at the decision, calling the approval an advance in women's health on par with the introduction of the birth control pill...
...flawed Pius IX [RELIGION, Sept. 4]. Doesn't it seem ridiculous that grown men are digging up dead bodies and making new godlings? At the start of the 21st century, one might hope the church would come to grips with important issues, perhaps even re-examine its opposition to birth control, abortion and divorce. Those three matters alone would alleviate a great deal of suffering. If Pius IX is indeed a candidate for canonization, then Pope John Paul II's recent apology for the church's missteps over the centuries is at best lame and at worst only hollow words...