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Moves to liberalise abortion law

Herald Sun

SPAIN'S cabinet has approved a bill to liberalise the abortion law, a measure that has angered the Roman Catholic Church and led to mass demonstrations by opponents.

New law bans picking baby's sex by abortion

WorldNetDaily

In several Asian nations, sons are preferred so highly over daughters that couples abort their babies when an ultrasound reveals their unborn child is a girl, but in Oklahoma, a bill signed into law yesterday will ban the practice of choosing a baby's sex by selective abortion.

Abortion foes condemn doctor's slaying, fear backlash

McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents on Monday condemned the fatal shooting of a prominent Kansas abortion provider and warned against attempts to "demonize" their movement because of one "unbalanced" person.

Abortion Limits Bill Headed For TN House Vote

News Channel 5 Nashville

Sponsors of a proposal to change the Tennessee Constitution to allow the state to impose greater limits on abortion said they expect the measure to pass the House with little opposition.

Charges dropped in shooting of Ancaster abortion doctor

Kitchener - Waterloo Record

Hamilton (May 28, 2009) -- A man convicted of killing a New York abortion provider will not face a charge of attempted murder in the shooting of an Ancaster, Ont. doctor. Ontario provincial police say charges against James Kopp in connection with the shooting of Dr. Hugh Short will not proceed. Short was shot through a window in his home in 1995 and Kopp was subsequently charged with attempted ...

Hundreds mourn slain abortion doctor

UPI

WICHITA, Kan., June 6 (UPI) -- Hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Wichita, Kan., for the funeral of George Tiller, the abortion doctor shot as he attended a church service.

Jeff Sessions: Abortion support, sexual orientation not disqualifers for Supreme Court

Mobile Press-Register

WASHINGTON -- Following an Oval Office meeting this morning with President Barack Obama, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, said he did not view support for legalized abortion as a "litmus test" for a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Sessions, now the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, also indicated that a nominee's sexual orientation would not be a factor for him.

What's Sotomayor's position on abortion rights?

Seattle Times

In nearly 11 years as a federal appeals-court judge, Sonia Sotomayor has never directly ruled on whether the Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion. But when she has written opinions that touched on abortion disputes, she has reached outcomes in some cases that were favorable to abortion opponents.

Obama delves into abortion debate at Notre Dame

AP via Yahoo! News

Facing protests and controversy, President Barack Obama stepped head-on into the debate over abortion, one of the nation's most divisive issues.

Letter: No common ground on abortion

Merced Sun-Star

Editor: President Obama, in his address at the Notre Dame graduation, lectured abortion opponents on