California Fights Anti-Abortion Law
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California state officials filed  a lawsuit on Tuesday to block a new U.S. rule that limits  federal funds to states that provide access to abortions.
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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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A VALLETTA, Malta, DEC. 2, 2004 .- This island nation's Catholic bishops are protesting against the pressures exerted by a U.N. Commission on Malta to legalize abortion in certain circumstances.
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The abortion bill most likely to become federal law this year would affect a relatively small number of pregnant teens, yet its impact on them could be dramatic &#151; sharply reducing the options for girls in many states who dread telling their parents of their plight.
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The legal drive to make California the second state in which same-sex couples can marry resumed on Wednesday with arguments in a pair of lawsuits that seek to have the state&#39;s laws banning same-sex marriage overturned.
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California's attorney general is going after one of the mainstays of life in a way that is so confused, so terrifying an abuse of state power, that it begs for redress.
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On Monday, Oct. 18, the Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit by three California women who said Planned Parenthood withholds information concerning the link between abortion and breast cancer.
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A little more than three months after California voters approved a measure allocating $3 billion in public funds for stem cell and related research, organizers are struggling with down-to-earth concerns.
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A California law barring gay  marriage violates the state's constitution because it  discriminates, inhibits freedom of expression, and undermines  privacy, lawyers for the city of San Francisco and same-sex  couples argued in court on Wednesday.
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The campaign committee that spent &#36;35 million last year backing California's novel &#36;3 billion stem cell initiative plans to use its fund-raising prowess to fight a federal bill seeking to ban all forms of human cloning.
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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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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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Opponents said Thursday they will sue to block a voter-approved measure that expands California's DNA database to all suspected felons regardless of whether they are convicted.
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In Congress and states nationwide, anti-abortion activists are broadening efforts to support hospitals, doctors and pharmacists who &#151; citing moral grounds &#151; want to opt out of services linked to abortion and emergency contraception.
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Local abortion rights and anti-abortion activists reacted strongly to a Thursday ruling by a New York judge who declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional.
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Thousands of abortion opponents marched from the National Mall to the Supreme Court on Tuesday in their annual remembrance of the court's Roe v. Wade decision
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Abortion opponents on Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion with a day of rallies, protests and other activities as the issue takes on new urgency with the likelihood of a high court vacancy during President Bush's term.