Abortion

OTTAWACanada's abortion rate declined by 3.2 per cent overall in 2005, with abortions among teens dropping by almost six per cent.

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The group Harvard Right to Life , or HRL, during the past two weeks has been sending cards to Harvard University students who have Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans that detail how to request a ...

... Psychologist and abortion-rights advocate Harvey Karman -- who worked to ... access to safe abortions in India and China. Vicki Saporta, president of the , added ...

Psychologist and abortion-rights advocate Harvey Karman -- who worked to make abortions affordable, safe and accessible in the decades before Roe v. Wade -- died of a stroke on May 6 at age 84 at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., the

The Missouri Senate adjourned its 2008 legislative session on Friday without considering a measure (HB 1831) that includes several restrictions on abortion rights, the Kansas City Star reports (Noble/Wagar, Kansas City Star, 5/16).

Last night, Tuesday 21st May, members of UK parliament's House of Commons voted to reject a proposal to reduce the upper limit for abortions from 24 to 22 weeks. The 22 week limit, which was rejected by a 304 to 233 majority by MPs who were given a free vote, was one of several proposals to overhaul the 20-year-old Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and bring it in line with advances in science and medicine.

COLUMBUS - The state ban on issue ads that mention political candidates by name within 30 days of an election should be overturned because it violates the First Amendment, an anti-abortion group said in a ...

Some of the concerns over HRT and heart disease and breast cancer are not justified by the clinical evidence, the International Menopause Society said. However, cancer expert Professor Valerie Beral, of Oxford University, dismissed the research as flawed. Fears over HRT began in 2002 after the publication of a large US study. National guidance now states women should be prescribed the lowest dose for the shortest possible time. The Royal College of GPs said women should discuss the pros and cons of treatment with their doctor.

A University of South Carolina led team carried out tests on more than 1,200 newborns from the Isle of Wight. They found first borns were more likely to carry a gene variant which raised their risk of allergy. The study, to be presented to the American Thoracic Society, found this seemed to translate to a higher risk of allergy through to the age of ten. The researchers measured levels of an antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in the babies' umbilical cord blood.