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Richmond, VA (LifeNews.com) -- In what pro-life advocates are hailing as a brilliant legislative move, Virginia lawmakers stripped Planned Parenthood funding from its own bill to sponsor pro-abortion license plates. The plate bill now sends the proceeds from sales of the plate to a state fund that actually helps pregnant women.Money generated from the sales of the “Trust Women, Respect Choice" license plates was intended to go to the Planned Parenthood abortion business.When Democrat Delegate Robert Brink brought up the bill, on the House floor in preparation for today's final vote, the legislation said the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood...

Oppose "Choose Life" License Plates Dear xxxxxx, This morning, the House Transportation Committee voted on a package of legislation that included Sen. Cuccinelli's 'Choose Life' License Plate. The bill, SB817, passed by a vote of 15-7. Click here to see how your Delegate voted. This is a disappointing blow to our efforts to defeat this bill, which would generate funds for crisis pregnancy centers around Virginia. On Monday, the House of Delegates will take a final vote on this legislation and be sure the anti's are making their voices heard. Please take a moment to send your legislator a message...

Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger children should be able to choose euthanasia under proposals from members of Belgium's coalition government. The plans to extend rules allowing doctors to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" comes amid heated Belgian debate on the issue. Under existing Belgian laws, in place since 2002, patients, other than newborn babies, must be over 18 to qualify for assisted suicide, a situation that Bart Tommelein, leader of Belgium Liberals, wants changed. Mr Tommelein, whose party is...

Zogby Poll Reveals: Abortion Tough Issue for Hillary Clinton & '06 Congressional Democrats LOS ANGELES, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal candidates who make abortion rights an important part of their election platform this year and in 2008 may find themselves swimming against the current of American political thinking, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows. The survey, commissioned by Associated Television News and The O'Leary Report, included 30,117 respondents in the 48 contiguous states, and was conducted from March 10-14, 2006. It carries a margin of error of +/- 0.6 percentage points. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030425/ATNLOGO ) The poll included 20 questions on...

"I'm not going to require a 16- or 17-year-old kid who's been raped by her father and who's pregnant to notify her father. So you've got to have a judicial intervention. And because they didn't have a judicial intervention where she could go somewhere to get help I voted against it. It's never quite as simple as the president wants you to believe."