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Abortion: Abortion Act
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Abortion is a medical procedure that terminates a pregnancy. The embryo or fetus is removed from the uterus, usually in the first trimester (or three months) of the pregnancy. This is an induced abortion because it is a voluntary action, decided by a woman, as opposed to spontaneous abortion when the body simply expels the fetus without medical intervention.
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Abortion activists chanted as pro-life demonstrators prayed outside George Tiller's Wichita abortion chamber on Saturday. "As a person that lives in Wichita, I would like to be proud of Wichita," said Bob Lippoldt. "But it is a city in shame."
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The 40th anniversary of the British 1967 Abortion Act takes place just a few days after the conference. Organisers have ... lined up an impressive range of domestic speakers, including Lord David Steel, who as a young British MP introduced the private member's bill which became the 1967 Act; Marie O'Riordan, Editor of the influential Marie Claire magazine and Barbara Hewson QC, a top barrister who has represented clients in a number of important abortion-related court cases.
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Acts of violence against abortion clinics and their employees were widespread across the United States throughout the 1980s and 1990s. According to statistics from the National Abortion Federation, there were 1,700 acts of violence against abortion providers between 1977 and 1994, with one person murdered in 1993 and four more people killed in 1994. In 1984 alone, there were 18 bombings against abortion clinics. In 1993, there were 78 death threats aimed at clinic employees. By 1996, bombings, threats and harassment affected about one-third of U.S. abortion clinics.
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The law... at least in Europe and North America, increasingly formulated the ending of all pregnancy as abortion, possibly reflecting developing medical ability in accurate, early recognition of conception. In England and Wales abortion initially became a statutory offence in 1803 under Lord Ellenborough's Act, at a time when the medical profession was increasingly concerning itself with previously woman-controlled areas such as obstetrics, and desirous of differentiating the medical man from the irregular practitioner. The concept of ‘unlawful’ abortion enabled medical practitioners to claim a right to use their clinical judgement over ‘lawful’ therapeutic abortion. Induced abortion, pre-antibiotics, was a significant cause of female mortality and morbidity, although many ‘back street’ operators were not lacking in skill. It was largely married women who patronized these, since they could more readily pass off miscarriages without need of concealment. The ‘Female Pills’ widely purveyed in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a successful commercial racket, with little in the way of effective ingredients.
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Hillary Clinton was one of three candidates to appear at a Planned Parenthood conference yesterday where she told the abortion advocates she would promote abortion as president. In addition, Clinton ... said that her first action as president would be to reverse President Bush's policy on international abortions. When Bush first took office, he put the Mexico City policy back in place that has been the international policy under Presidents Reagan and Bush and revoked by President Clinton. The Mexico City policy ensures that taxpayer funds are not directed to groups that promote or perform abortions in other countries. Clinton said she would do away with the policy on her first day in office.
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