Abortion

Marie Stopes, which today hosts an international conference on the need for more abortion facilities in the developing world has been accused of failing to meet the real needs of women. Over 100 young women are expected to picket outside the 'Global Safe' Abortion Conference (http://www.globalsafeabortion. [click link for full article]

The UK's largest organisation of Christian doctors has expressed concern that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) failed to give full information to a House of Commons Select Committee over current scientific evidence for lowering the upper limit for abortion. [click link for full article]

The British Parliament's Select Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday concluded an inquiry into the country's abortion law and will consider recommending changes that could relax current restrictions in a report planned to be released next month, London's [click link for full article]

Sergio Cabral -- the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- on Wednesday said that legalizing abortion could help reduce violence in the city, AFP/Independent Online reports (AFP/Independent Online, 10/25). Abortion is banned in Brazil except in cases of rape or to save the life of the pregnant woman (EFE News Service, 10/24). [click link for full article]

The Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday by voice vote passed a bill that would expand abortion clinic buffer zones from 18 feet to 35 feet, the Boston Globe reports (Simpson, Boston Globe, 10/24). [click link for full article]

The Manassas, Va., City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution that would create a committee to study what regulations and guidelines abortion clinics in the city operate under and to determine if stricter guidelines are needed, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, [click link for full article]

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, criticized what he said is an increasing "normalization" of abortion and called for a review of the United Kingdom's 1967 Abortion Act, BBC News reports (BBC News, 10/21). [click link for full article]

Two newspapers on Wednesday published an editorial and an opinion piece about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) support for abortion rights and religious conservative leaders' reaction to his candidacy. Giuliani, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Saturday at the "Values Voter" summit hosted by the [click link for full article]

U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Katz last week ruled that judicial candidates in Pennsylvania can discuss their views on political issues, including abortion, as long as they do not promise to rule in a particular way if elected, the AP/Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader reports. [click link for full article]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday during a speech at Ahavath Achim synagogue in Atlanta said that she does not believe the court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that effectively barred state abortion bans, the [click link for full article]