S.D. voters to decide fate of abortion ban
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Voters will have the final say on South Dakota&#039;s tough new law that bans almost all abortions.
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This month, Catholic Portugal may decide to break ranks with a small group of countries including Ireland and Poland and legalize abortions, in a referendum which some cast as a deeper test of its readiness for progress.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidates made last-minute appeals to blacks, women and young voters in a dash across South Carolina before today's primary.
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A group that helps female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights is asking a federal judge to block new campaign finance rules that it argues will cripple its ability to participate in state and local elections.
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Swiss voters are expected to endorse tight government legislation on stem cell research on Sunday which would forbid the cloning of human embryos and put Switzerland on a par with other continental European countries.
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The support from the pair means that it will be up to the Legislature to decide whether to block the proposed downsizings.
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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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People on both sides of the debate about same-sex marriage made a last-minute push to sway lawmakers Wednesday, a day before the Legislature planned to decide whether to ask voters to amend the state constitution to ban the practice.
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Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, a debate is still raging -- over which side is responsible for the drop in abortions
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Portuguese voters will decide on Sunday whether the country's strict laws on abortion should be relaxed.
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Republican lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill to suspend the sale of RU-486, the abortion pill, and probe the process surrounding its approval now that three US deaths have been linked to the drug.
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BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 18 -- Louisiana voters decided Saturday whether to approve a constitutional amendment to ban  same-sex marriage, one of as many as 12 such measures on ballots around the country this year.
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialist government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.
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People in Switzerland are expected to back a proposal to allow stem-cell research on human embryos, exit polls indicate.
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Portuguese voters were deciding on Sunday whether to legalize abortion in a referendum which could bring the overwhelmingly Catholic country closer into line with most other European states.
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A South Dakota bill to ban most abortions in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade appeared dead Wednesday after a state Senate committee rejected it.
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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.