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anti
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Some critics echo the radical anti-abortion lobby in comparing stem cell research to the Holocaust.
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The new alliance will attempt to win the moral high ground from anti-abortion and antivivisection groups, he says.
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The anti-abortion groups' victory will probably only be temporary, however.
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The basic anti-abortion argument boils down to a moral question.
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Therapeutic cloning has been attacked by anti-abortion campaigners.
constitutional
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The Supreme Court is expected to weaken further the nationwide constitutional protection for abortion early next year.
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Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions .
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Anti-abortionists have launched a vigorous campaign to reinforce the constitutional ban on abortion .
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He supports parental notification and opposes government funding, but does not advocate a constitutional amendment banning abortion .
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The convention could include a battle over whether to retain the platform plank calling for a constitutional ban on abortion .
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Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
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Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions .
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Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion .
illegal
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Thousands turn to illegal abortion services, thousands more give birth to children they neither wanted nor can afford.
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For $ 100, Hicks performed illegal abortions .
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None of the women who were subsequently interviewed mentioned illegal abortion and the final report ignores the topic.
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I, too, had had an illegal abortion .
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The other said that Courtney carried out an illegal abortion at her home.
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Furthermore, there were many illegal abortions before the Act.
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Another alleged he carried out an illegal abortion at her home.
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It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby.
induced
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Penalties for induced abortions are fierce in theory but ineffective in practice.
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Thus the data relate to spontaneous miscarriages as well as to induced abortions .
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Statistics do not distinguish between induced and spontaneous abortions .
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However, these data combine spontaneous and induced abortions and thus reflect different causal phenomena.
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Future fertility was not related to induced abortion .
legal
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Thirty-six percent ended in legal abortion - less than in 1977.
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Unable to scrape together the money for a safe, legal abortion , she turned to an illegal abortionist.
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This is why access to safe, reliable, legal abortion is what most women want.
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Clinton: Favors legal abortion , with few restrictions.
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They also demanded that President Reagan announce an end to legal abortion in the United States.
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Legal abortion Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline.
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In 116 stories, Republicans who supported legal abortion were described as moderates.
right
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Clinton consistently supported women's right to abortion at a time when Bush adopted an anti-abortion stance.
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Wade decision granted women the right to have abortions .
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These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right , especially abortion .
spontaneous
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A statement said there was a spontaneous abortion and the life support machine had now been turned off.
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Statistics do not distinguish between induced and spontaneous abortions .
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However, these data combine spontaneous and induced abortions and thus reflect different causal phenomena.
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As a consequence, abnormally high rates of spontaneous abortions among women coffee-harvesters have been recorded.
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But how often is the mule's gestation cut short by spontaneous abortion ?
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clinic
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The growth of non-profit-making abortion clinics since the act has meant that abortion is widely available.
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The ruling was not a total defeat for the abortion clinics .
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Under the terms of the legislation an abortion clinic was also required to inform a patient about the possible alternatives to abortion.
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Keeping abortion clinics open was one such issue.
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In the coming abortion clinic battles, these would prove invaluable to her and to me.
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The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
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It was not widely known that there was a abortion clinic in the neighborhood.
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Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics .
debate
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Janet Hadley looks at both sides of the abortion debate .
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The highly publicized abortion debate overshadowed the rest of the platform that calls for a smorgasbord of constitutional amendments.
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The abortion debate provided an unexpected twist Thursday.
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I am convinced it is this freedom that is at the heart of the abortion debate .
issue
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In the United States a most dramatic contemporary example of this process is the abortion issue .
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These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large.
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The abortion issue also seems to have been canceled for lack of burning interest.
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Controversy, too, continues to surround the abortion issue .
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But the abortion issue was not a big factor in either Virginia or New Jersey.
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The ballot gives further notice to conservative Republicans how dangerous the abortion issue has become for them.
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Only 5 percent named the abortion issue .
law
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When most criminal abortion laws were first enacted, the procedure was a hazardous one for the woman.
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Despite some public opinion polls and Supreme Court decisions to the contrary, voters have repeatedly rejected liberalization of abortion laws .
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Her case ended up in the Supreme Court which overturned restrictive abortion laws in 46 states.
opponent
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Buchanan, however, said she was pleased by the selection of abortion opponent Rep.
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Buchanan made a special appeal to abortion opponents , a group of voters whose support he generally shares with Gramm and Keyes.
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Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents , gun rights advocates and religious conservatives.
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Throughout the 1992 election campaign, it became quite clear just how vehemently abortion opponents feared the coming of a pro-choice president.
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.
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The draft retains the abortion rights position of the 1992 platform, but adds language suggested by abortion opponent Rep.
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All calls for accommodation masked the gulf that divides abortion opponents and supporters.
procedure
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The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.
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allow
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The Penal Code of 1977 only allows abortions on health grounds or because of pregnancies as a result of rape.
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At least if you had no reason to think either would in fact allow more abortions ?
ban
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He supports parental notification and opposes government funding, but does not advocate a constitutional amendment banning abortion .
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The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions .
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The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.
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Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion .
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Clinton on April 10 vetoed a bill that would have banned so-called partial birth abortions .
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Clinton would support language banning the abortion technique as an elective procedure, another White House aide said.
believe
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But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy.
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Many voters believed abortion rights were threatened.
choose
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A woman who is granted an abortion does not get to choose between abortions.
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He contends that economic prosperity has given the voters the opportunity to choose on issues like abortion and the environment.
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Prior to 1980 Bush had supported the right of women to choose to have an abortion .
legalize
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He introduced a bill to legalize abortion two years before Roe v. Wade.
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Short of legalizing abortion , lives could be saved if doctors were better trained to deal with septic or incomplete abortions.
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Y., referring to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion .
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Wade legalized abortion around the nation.
obtain
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Brook will also make all the necessary arrangements for its young clients to obtain abortions .
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The spousal notification requirement is thus likely to prevent a significant number of women from obtaining an abortion .
oppose
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Alan Keyes, an eloquent black talk-show host who fervently opposes abortion , has never officially abandoned the race.
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Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion , and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.
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Buchanan opposes abortion , affirmative action, immigration and imports.
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Mack, a solid conservative who opposes abortion , could help Dole in electoral vote-rich Florida.
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I am opposed to abortion on demand.
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He is vehemently opposed to abortion , gay rights and many aspirations of the Third World.
outlaw
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Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
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He would outlaw abortion and end gun control.
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By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.
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The Louisiana legislature was debating a bill to outlaw virtually all abortions .
perform
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However, it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances.
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So furious had he been that he had wanted to perform an abortion himself, immediately.
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The code threatened doctors with suspension if they performed abortions unless the pregnancy involved rape or threat to the woman's life.
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The change affected clinics that primarily perform abortions as well as family doctors who may do the procedure along with unrelated services.
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For $ 100, Hicks performed illegal abortions .
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The change also affects medical offices that perform abortions in addition to unrelated services.
restrict
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Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia.
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By the turn of the century virtually every State had a law prohibiting or restricting abortion on its books.
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He has stated that, as Governor of New Jersey, he would not push for legislation to restrict abortion drastically.
seek
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They do not seek the experience of abortion , they would far rather not have become pregnant in the first place.
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One influential local bishop warned that women who sought abortion would be excommunicated.
support
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Legislators who supported the right to abortion immediately took steps to negate the effects of the Rust v. Sullivan ruling.
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In 116 stories, Republicans who supported legal abortion were described as moderates.
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It was a way of reaching out to social and religious conservatives who suspect him of supporting abortion rights.
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Norcross has been hampered because he supports abortion rights.
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Clinton would support language banning the abortion technique as an elective procedure, another White House aide said.
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While Bulger has been against, Birmingham supports abortion rights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Abortion has become a highly political issue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
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Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion , and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.
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Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its confrontational tactics and its implacable opposition to abortion under all circumstances.
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They do not seek the experience of abortion , they would far rather not have become pregnant in the first place.
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To climb back into the presidential race, he must get abortion off the agenda.
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Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion , these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
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Yet even so, the United States still leads most industrialized countries in teenage pregnancies, abortions and childbearing.