Word: birthed
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Republicans are wasting little time in reopening the debate over partial-birth abortions after a prominent abortion-rights activist admitted he lied about how often the procedure is performed. GOP leaders are busy lining up votes as the House prepares to once again take up a bill banning abortions using the controversial partial-birth technique. So far, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says he's counted 62 'yes' votes, enough for Senate passage but still five short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. An opportunity to renew the debate opened up after after Ron Fitzsimmons...
...dealing with his most productive fund raisers, Gore can be as attentive as a social director at a vacation spa. Alan Kessler, a lawyer from Philadelphia who helped raise $5.5 million last year, is practically a pen pal. When Kessler's wife last gave birth, there was a congratulatory phone call from Gore. When his son was recovering from knee surgery, there was a note. Another note marked the Bas Mitzvah of Kessler's daughter. And when her ninth-grade class visited Washington, Gore arranged a tour of the White House and posed for a group photo...
Bernstein said the mother should not abuse alcohol or drugs--which have been shown to cause birth defects--if she plans to bring the fetus to term...
...several months now, I have anxiously awaited my return to New York City. Having spent the majority of the last eight years in New England, I feel ready to re-assume residence in my place of birth. At the same time, I am fearful of my homeland. In 1993, Republican Rudolph Giuliani defeated David Dinkins, an incumbent Democratic mayor. That was one of the first signs of the impending conservative shift that swept the nation...
...cases, vomiting, there are no serious side effects. It's the first federal approval of an emergency contraception method that has been prescribed for the past decade in Europe. While the United Kingdom approved the first emergency contraception method in 1984, and several European countries followed, until now no birth-control products had been officially approved for such use in the U.S. In part this was because drug companies, fearing lawsuits and protests from anti-abortion groups, had been reluctant to package or promote their pills as safe for use after sex. The companies are still reluctant...