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...Congress, Vitter racked up a nearly perfect conservative record, voting with the G.O.P. 99% of the time. He lost his 100% rating from the American Conservative Union when he supported the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, which the group opposed but President Bush backed. He also crusaded against RU 486, the so-called abortion pill, and supported replacing the federal income tax with a flat tax or national sales tax. And even if Vitter was not the favorite politician of Pelican State Republicans, they saw a chance to win Democrat John Breaux's old Senate seat and rallied to his support...
...Dutch "abortion ship" gave up and headed home - accompanied by the two Portuguese navy gunboats that had been its escort since the conservative government barred it on Aug. 27. But Rebecca Gomperts, head of Women on Waves, the group that runs the boat and had planned to distribute the RU-486 abortion pill on board, said it accomplished its main objective of "bringing the abortion issue to the fore." The Borndiep's offshore stay certainly made headlines - helped by Gomperts' appearance on Portuguese TV to explain how to induce an abortion using over-the-counter medicines. Abortion in Portugal...
...spinning wheel while audience members clapped and cheered an encouraging "Pa-je-ro! Pa-je-ro!" But when the taped program aired on June 17, the customary end-of-show ritual had undergone an important change. Instead of the "Pajero!" chant, producers had dubbed in a different cheer: "Ku-ru-ma! Ku-ru-ma!"?meaning simply "Car! Car!" Starting in July, the show is likely to replace the Pajero with another award entirely. "The prize is supposed to be this wonderful thing that makes everyone happy," says Shigeyuki Tsuruoka, the show's producer. "If we continued to present the Pajero...
...sold, Plan B is considered safe by FDA medical reviewers, the American Medical Association and the ACOG. The morning-after pill is a high dosage of birth control pills that works by inhibiting ovulation, fertilization or implantation. In this way, the emergency contraceptive differs from the abortion pill RU-486. While Plan B blocks a pregnancy from forming, RU-486 aborts a fertilized egg that’s attached to the uterine wall...