Pelican Project Pro-Life

(WOMENSENEWS)–The Obama administration’s stringent ban on abortion coverage in the new high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions who have been denied coverage in the individual market has spurred criticism among pro-choice organizations. They say the ban harms the vulnerable women that the historic health care reform legislation was supposed to protect. read more

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EMILY’s List has pro-choice women try on bear suits to tell Sarah Palin why she doesn’t speak for them

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In Ann Arbor last week, Andy Dillon touted the benefits of life science research at the University of Michigan, mentioning that his brother’s life was saved by a stem cell transplant. But the speaker of the House failed to mention that he was — and remains — personally opposed of embryonic stem cell research.

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(WOMENSENEWS)–U.S. pro-choice advocates are still worried about the drug “ella,” which prevents pregnancy from occurring for five days after unprotected intercourse, rather than three, as the current available pills do. read more

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WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)–NARAL Pro-Choice America has jumped into today’s marquee Democratic primary by endorsing challenger Rep. Joe Sestak for the U.S. Senate nomination over incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, who is endorsed by President Barak Obama. read more

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(WOMENSENEWS)–In the aftermath of health reform, the abortion-coverage restrictions that low-income women faced under Medicaid threaten to become the norm. And that’s pushing a key campaign of the National Network of Abortion Funds into the pro-choice vanguard. read more

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(WOMENSNEWS)–Several hours after Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced on April 9 his plan to retire this summer, Americans United for Life, an anti-choice advocacy group, targeted one possible candidate, Judge Diane P. Wood of the federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, as someone who “would return the abortion wars to the Supreme Court” because of her pro-choice decisions …

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(WOMENSNEWS)–The roughly one million U.S. women who undergo an abortion each year have a lot riding on whoever is chosen to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens after he retires this summer. read more

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A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an “egg-as-a-person” initiative. This new version would move the legal definition of a person further back into the reproductive cycle, granting cells the full spectrum of citizen rights. Opposition groups, including Colorado genetic and fertilization researchers, say the law would have spiraling consequences, that it would put women at risk and fr

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Randall Terry , the founder of fanatical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue , is sending around an email to supporters asking them to burn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy as part of a national Halloween protest and video contest. The email and video rallying supporters is characterized by an ironic tone that serves only to heighten the threatening factor that has come to characterize the organization and its actions. What we want you to d

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