Nicaragua brings in abortion ban
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A ban on all abortions even when the woman's life is at risk is made law by Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos.
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U.N. diplomats drafting an  international treaty on the rights of the disabled debated a  possible ban on the abortion of fetuses with disabilities in an  emotional negotiating session that ended on Friday.
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New warnings will be added to an abortion pill implicated in the death of an 18-year-old California woman last fall, linking Mifeprex to the risk of serious bacterial infection.
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NEW YORK - A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months - even though he called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized."   U.S. District Judge Richard C...
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Voters will have the final say on a tough new law that bans almost all abortions in South Dakota.
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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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BUDAPEST, May 17 (IPS) - With the strictest abortion laws in Europe, one  would expect any debates to revolve around  its liberalisation.  Yet in 21st century Poland, the abortion issue has been  unsuccessfully  raised by politicians seeking to strengthen  anti-abortion legislation even further.
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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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Mozambique is set to end its blanket ban on abortion after the government acknowledged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa&#39;s most impoverished nations.
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Unsafe abortions in the developing  world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests.
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The House voted narrowly Thursday to reverse a ban on contraception aid to groups overseas that offer abortions, challenging a pillar of President Bush's foreign aid policy.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled  against the government's ban on so-called partial birth  abortions, saying the measure was unconstitutional because it  failed to provide an exception to protect a mother's health.
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Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista Front sought to capitalize on the recent fracturing of a rival party during municipal elections Sunday amid ongoing attempts to remove the country's president from office.
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A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months &#151; even though he called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized."
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ARSAW, Poland, NOV. 11, 2004 .- A representative of the Catholic Church in Poland reported the undue interference of U.N. organizations trying to impose the liberalization of abortion in his country.
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Â· New case occurs less than a week after all clear  Â· Government imposes national movement ban
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Portugal holds a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to legalise abortion, an emotive issue in the overwhelmingly Catholic country where there are worries not enough people will vote to validate a decision.