US asylum rule on forced abortion
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Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to void the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients take their own lives.
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The state of Missouri must provide transportation to abortion clinics for inmates who want to undergo the procedure, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - A federal judge ruled that a ban on a type of late-term abortion violates the US Constitution. The New York judge ruled on a federal ban, signed into law in 2003 by US President George W. Bush (news - web sites).
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Weeks after President George W. Bush's reelection, the battle over US abortion rights has been reignited, after Congress approved a  measure freeing hospitals from statewide provisions to offer abortion services.
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The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from abortion opponents in Southern California who were ordered to pay legal fees to Planned Parenthood after they unsuccessfully sued the family-planning group to require it to declare a link between
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And the question before the US Supreme Court today in a case from Missouri is whether, like mentally retarded killers, young killers should be spared execution under the Constitution&#39;s ban against &quot;cruel and unusual punishment.
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The Bush administration has asked the United States Supreme Court to void Oregon&#39;s Death With Dignity Act. The Act was approved by Oregon voters in 1998, and more than 170 people have since used it to end their lives.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled  against the government's ban on so-called partial birth  abortions, saying the measure signed into law last year by  President Bush was unconstitutional.
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Kerry said he would not appoint judges who would overturn the Supreme Court&#39;s 1973 abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade. Bush said he had no litmus test for judges and reiterated his support for the ban on so-called partial birth abortion.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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The U.S. House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning groups outside the United States even though they engage in abortion activities.
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International family planning groups cut off from aid because of their position on abortion could gain access to U.S.-donated contraceptives under legislation approved by a House panel Tuesday.
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LISBON, Jul 20 (IPS) - Pleading "conscientious objection," a  significant proportion of doctors in Portugal are preventing  women from making use of the law authorising abortions up to 10  weeks of gestation, which entered into force on Sunday.
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A Chinese woman who miscarried twins after federal authorities hustled her into a van and took her to an airport to deport her will be allowed to stay in the United States, an immigration judge has ruled.
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A federal court on Wednesday ruled that an abortion law signed by President Bush last year was unconstitutional and banned the U.S. Justice Department from enforcing it, joining two other states that struck down the law.
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INTERROGATION ORDERS: President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment in question terror suspects.