40 Days For Life

2010-03-13T14:30:41Z

Marueen FitzGerald, left, and Meghan FitzGerald stand praying the rosary across from the Hillcrest Women's Medical Center of Harrisburg on Front Street in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 9, 2010, as part of the 40 Days For Life Campaign. Both are from Lancaster, Pa. According to the 40 Days For Life website, 40 Days for Life is a focuse...

Catholic hospitals support health care bill

2010-03-13T11:45:08Z

<div><p>A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.</p><p>The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote...

A look at Democrats' health care overhaul

2010-03-13T07:45:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Details of the health care overhaul plan shaped by Obama and Democrats in Congress</div><div><p>President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as this coming week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

2010-03-12T22:30:12Z

<div><p>A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.</p><p>Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had done to im...

Ga. man who posted 'Elton John must die' arrested

2010-03-11T16:01:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Ga. man arrested after posting YouTube video with a sign that said 'Elton John must die'</div><div><p>A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats.</p><p>Neal Horsley, 65, was arrest...

Democrats move closer to healthcare deal

2010-03-11T15:45:19Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats drew closer on Thursday to agreement on a broad healthcare overhaul that could lead to a final vote in the next few weeks, but vowed not to be bound by White House deadlines.</p><p>Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said there are still iss...

Lawmaker's clash with fellow Democrats nothing new

2010-03-11T14:32:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Clashing with fellow Dems nothing new for Mich. lawmaker at center of debate over health care</div><div><p>Shortly after entering Congress in 1993, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive and voted against free-trade legislation — an early display of the inde...

Santorum makes pitch for Iowa evangelical voters

2010-03-10T11:30:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rock Santorum makes pro-life pitch to Iowa's evangelical voters</div><div><p>As he speaks to hundreds of Iowa evangelicals about his "faith walk," it's clear former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is connecting with the audience.</p><p>Santorum may have been troun...

S.Korea abortion debate heats up after crackdown

2010-03-10T09:16:31Z

<div><p>Abortion has suddenly become a hot topic in South Korea after years of near-indifference, with a group of doctors seeking a crackdown on pro-life grounds and the government eager to boost the birthrate.</p><p>The procedure -- officially outlawed in most cases -- has for decades been widely tolerated as successive administrations sought to control population growth in the crowded nation.</p><p>More t...

A policy change on abortion, but how radical?

2010-03-09T17:15:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Restrictions on abortion funding take on different form in Obama's health care overhaul bill</div><div><p>President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear.</p><p>Major anti-abortion groups such as the Reuters Health) - Medication-induced home abortions are safe for women who are 50 to 63 days pregnant, a new study from Sweden shows.</p><p>Studies to date have only looked at home use of the procedure up to 49 days after conception, Dr. Helena Kopp Kallner of the Madrid's central Sol square. Besides the capital, rallies were held in Barce...

Abortion coverage dispute divides House Democrats

2010-03-05T10:00:57Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama's final push for health care votes could falter in battle over abortion coverage</div><div><p>Just when President Barack Obama is striving to unite Democratic lawmakers for one last push to pass his health care overhaul, the divisive politics of abortion threaten to tear the party apart.</p><p>At issue is a Senate health care bill House Democrats are being asked to approve in a co...

Groups protest S.Korea crackdown on abortion

2010-03-05T00:17:00Z

<div><p>South Korean activists staged a protest Friday against a government crackdown on abortion, saying women should have the right to decide on the issue.</p><p>About 40 activists -- mainly women -- from 24 groups shouted "Stop a crackdown on abortion that violates women's rights" in a Seoul park, after issuing a joint statement to mark International Women's Day on March 8.</p><p>Abortion is officially illegal unles...

Obama presses fellow Dems: Seize moment on health

2010-03-04T15:00:43Z

<div><p>Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his massive health care overhaul.</p><p>It's the opportunity of a generation, he told them — and a chance to revive the party's agenda ...

Democrats would nix healthcare over abortion

2010-03-04T14:34:37Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Reuters) - A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - Polish anti-abortion activists have caused shock with a giant billboard poster depicting aborted fetuses and Adolf Hitler in a campaign timed to remind Poles of Nazi rule during World War Two.</p><p>"Abortion was introduced for Polish women by Hitler on March 9, 1943," reads t...

Obama courts lawmakers on health overhaul

2010-03-04T11:19:23Z

<div><p>US President Barack Obama waged an all-out campaign Thursday to drive his historic health care overhaul through Congress, wooing wavering lawmakers and blasting "unacceptable" insurance rate hikes.</p><p>Waging an uphill fight for passage of his top domestic priority, Obama was to meet with 11 Democratic House members from the party's progressive wing and then with seven Democratic House centrists, his press ...

Obama allies prepared to scuttle health plan over abortion

2010-03-04T10:17:22Z

<div><p>A top Democratic US lawmaker said Thursday abortion foes are ready to kill President Barack Obama's huge health overhaul unless it meets their demands to block funding for the procedure.</p><p>"I want to see health care, but we're not going to bypass some principles and beliefs and we feel strongly about,"

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