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PHOENIX — Groups working to put reproductive rights in Arizona’s state constitution say they have exceeded the signature threshold to put a constitutional amendment on abortion on the state’s ballot in November. Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations including the ACLU of Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, says it had gathered 506,892 petition signatures as of this past weekend, with more than three months to go until the July 3 deadline to submit the signatures to Arizona’s secretary of state. The threshold to put a measure on the ballot is 383,923 signatures, and while...

London-based Christian Legal Centre behind a number of end-of-life court cases ‘prolonging suffering’, doctors sayMedics treating critically ill babies are quitting their jobs owing to “considerable moral distress” caused by a rightwing Christian group behind a series of end-of-life court cases, the Guardian has been told. Senior doctors claimed the behaviour of some evangelical campaigners was “prolonging the suffering” of seriously ill infants. They accused them of “selling falsehoods and lies” to families and of using legal tactics condemned by judges. One paediatric intensive care consultant described how he was pelted with eggs and “barraged” inside a hospital during protests...

"I'm so glad it's all women in here." As a family doctor and abortion provider, I hear this all the time. I know how important it is for many of the patients I care for to be seen by someone who shares their experiences. But I am not a woman. I am trans. Getting dressed for every shift, I put on my they/them and he/him pronoun pins. Like many trans folx, I use multiple pronouns. Often these go unseen. People assume my gender based on what they've been taught about which bodies look like a woman and which bodies look...

After telling Variety that she’s contemplating leaving the United States if President Donald Trump wins re-election, rocker Stevie Nicks says there wouldn’t have been a Fleetwood Mac if she had not had an abortion. “If I had not had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,” said Nick in a recent interview with The Guardian. The singer ended her unborn child’s life in 1979 while she was dating Don Henley of The Eagles. “There’s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. And there were...

A California man has been found guilty of murdering a baby girl by stepping on her and prosecutors revealed Friday that he told them he felt a sense of relief after committing the atrocious crime. Daniel Ruiz of Hesperia killed one-year-old Scarlett by placing his foot on her chest and crushing her with the force of most of his 230-pound bulk while the baby's mother was out buying milk. After crushing the baby, the San Bernadino County District Attorney said Ruiz flipped through channels on the television while Scarlett struggled desperately to breathe.

The drug-addled mother of Bella Bond watched her boyfriend swath the tot's lifeless body in a garbage bag and stuff her in their refrigerator before the Dorchester couple went on a days-long heroin binge, a prosecutor said today. "She was a demon and this was her time to die," Michael P. McCarthy, 35, and a fanatic of the occult, told Rachelle D. Bond, 40, one terrible day in May as he stood over Bella in the 2 1/2-year-old child's bedroom, according to assistant Suffolk District Attorney David Deakin. McCarthy, his long blond hair spilling over his shoulders, was held without...

A distraught mother as told how she pleaded with young robbers to spare her toddler's life before they shot him dead as he slept in his stroller. Sherry West was pushing her 13-month-old son Antonio yards from their home in Brunswick, Georgia, early yesterday morning when she was approached by two African-American boys. She told how one of them, who looked about 15, demanded money from her and threatened to kill her if she didn't give him any. She told him she didn't have any. 'He said: "Well, I'm going to kill your baby", and I said "Please don't kill...

There is little doubt that America has become a culture of death. Two of the most dangerous places to be are so-called women’s clinics and nursing homes. We do not value life that is not at its prime. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that a doctor was killing babies with scissors. Maybe we should be surprised he’s actually been arrested for it. On Wednesday an abortion doctor in West Philadelphia was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell has...

LAWRENCE, Mass. - The FBI is searching for a 27-year-old Lawrence man wanted for killing a 15-month-old toddler in Maine earlier this week. Police describe the suspect, Edgard Anziani, as a Hispanic male, about 6 feet 1 inches tall, 175 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair and possibly four tattoos. He is a citizen of the Dominican Republic and a permanent resident of the United States. He is known to be violent, according to the FBI. Police said Anziani killed the child on Tuesday in Bangor, Maine. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.

A woman who allegedly faked her own pregnancy has been charged with killing her pregnant friend, cutting her baby girl from her womb and kidnapping the infant. Julie Corey was initially charged with kidnapping after authorities found her and the baby in a homeless shelter in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in July. A Worcester County grand jury indicted her on Thursday on murder and kidnapping charges. DNA tests confirmed that the baby was cut from the womb of Darlene Haynes. Haynes, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed, was found dead in her Worcester home two days before Corey's...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Obama's budget recommendations unveiled yesterday are being criticized by the National Right to Life Committee for recommending the re-introduction of taxpayer-funded abortion in Washington, D.C. The White House submission urges the House and Senate to repeal a law known as the Dornan Amendment that prevents tax-funded abortion, except for cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother's life, in the District of Columbia for several years. Because Congress holds legislative authority over the District of Columbia, the district's budget must be appropriated by Congress through an annual appropriations bill. The White...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forcefully responded to conservative critics of government funding for programs like stem cell research today, saying that under the Bush administration "we've had a situation where it's faith or science - take your pick." "We're saying science is an answer to our prayers," the San Francisco Democrat said.

Police move a suspect believed to have tossed a toddler from the H1 pedestrian overpass off Magellan St. in the lower Punchbowl area of Honolulu Thursday Jan. 17, 2008 The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2½-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children. Police arrested a...

HOUSTON Police say a 6-month-old Houston girl was sexually assaulted, had her tongue nearly severed and suffered broken bones from head to toe. She's clinging to life today, and her parents have been charged with injury to a child. The infant is in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital. Twenty-one-year-old Ivan Castaneda and 19-year-old Donna Marie Norman brought their daughter to the hospital Wednesday. Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin says Castaneda and Norman originally took the baby to a hospital in north Houston to be treated for congestion. Doctors, however, discovered the baby had severe internal and external injuries...

Police have charged the parents of a seven week old infant who died earlier this week. Twenty-eight year old Dalila Aguilar and 30 year old Victor Aguilar face capital murder charges in connection with the death of Jason Daniel Aguilar. El Paso Police detectives interviewed the couple Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results and an ongoing investigation revealed the child's injuries were a result of foul play. As we reported, the baby's mother took him to Thomason Hospital with injuries last month with breathing problems. Doctors thought the injuries were suspicous and notified police. He died Tuesday.

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee mother was sent to jail Thursday for the death of her 2-month-old son in a tug o' war over the infant with the child's father. Annette O'Neal was sentenced to serve eight months in the Milwaukee County House of Correction with release privileges for employment and school. She and the baby's father, Brandon Davis, were fighting over where the baby was going to sleep. There was an apparent tug o' war when the baby hit the wall and died. O'Neal has been ordered to have no contact with Davis and must take parenting classes. She was...

Below is the Transcript of the second to last question of the town hall debate from Friday 10-7, and the related question from the final debate of 10-13. The questions were related to the murder--dismemberment of innocent children in the womb, more commonly know by the pain-free euphemism of abortion. The questions were first directed to John Kerry. For his entire career in the US Senate John Kerry has vigorously supported and defended the abortion industry’s bloody war of terror on children waiting to be born. His record is clear. Yet with a straight face Kerry flip flopped all over...

Washington, DC -- To change the abortion culture in the United States and around the world, the debate may have to be reframed and redirected with a focus on both the mother and unborn child. Recently, Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life of America, shared her thoughts on pro-life feminism and on trends in the abortion controversy. Her lecture, "The Feminist Case Against Abortion," was included in a 2001 book entitled, "Women's Rights." Q: Your name, Feminists for Life, strikes some as contradictory. What do you see as the connection between feminism and being pro-life? Foster: We are often...

Abortion pill is rarely used by U.S. women, report says 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News American women seeking to end a pregnancy have been slow to use the so-called abortion pill, according to the first report issued since the drug's approval more than two years ago. About 37,000 women used mifepristone, or RU-486, to end a pregnancy in the first half of 2001, said Lawrence B. Finer, assistant director of research for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit company that tracks U.S. abortion trends. "It represents about 6 percent of the total abortions in that...

30 years after Roe, social rift persists Abortion numbers down, but emotional charge hasn't faded 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News On a typical morning at The Fairmount Center, Dallas' oldest abortion clinic, the doctor and other staffers slip inside before dawn through the back door. Each patient's arrival through the front door is marked by a burst of activity on the sidewalk outside the small converted house in Oak Lawn. Several demonstrators, clutching Bibles, dissolve into a flurry of hands offering pamphlets and voices imploring the woman to change her mind and walk away from...