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AG confirms parental notification can go to voters

Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan on Tuesday said an initiative that would require parental notification for minor children seeking an abortion is proper and can be presented to voters.

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09-30-09 By Kim | Comment (1)

LA Times Examines Anti Choice Groups’ Push For ‘Personhood’ Ballot Measures

Abortion-rights opponents are escalating their efforts to place so-called “personhood” measures on several state ballots in 2010 as a way to end legalized abortion, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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09-29-09 By Kim | Comment (0)

A new push to define ‘person,’ and to outlaw abortion in the process

From Florida to California, abortion foes are gathering signatures, pressing state legislators and raising money to put personhood measures on ballots next year.

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09-28-09 By Kim | Comment (2)

Personhood law’s petitioning starts

Anti reproductive freedom activists launched a petition drive in Billings on Friday to give legal rights to fertilized embryos.

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09-25-09 By Kim | Comment (1)

Catholic Conference won’t help pro-life initiative

In an interesting twist, the Florida Catholic Conference said today in a statement that it will not support the controversial efforts of Personhood Florida.

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09-25-09 By Kim | Comment (1)

Petition effort to ban abortion continues in Colorado

An effort to try again to ban abortion through a Colorado ballot measure continues as proponents plan to gather signatures at a Christian conference at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

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09-25-09 By Kim | Comment (0)

Anti-Choice Zealots’ Latest Bizarre Ploy

The next new battlefield for personhood is Florida.

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09-24-09 By Kim | Comment (0)

Petitions out for MT Personhood Amendment

The anti reproductive freedom personhood amendment petitions are now available to the public for signing in Montana.

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09-24-09 By Kim | Comment (2)

“Personhood”: Banning Abortion, Contraception…And More?

For those of us who hoped that the attempts to pass “personhood amendments” would disappear after the first attempt at passing such a law on a ballot initiative was thoroughly trumped at the polls in Colorado, well, I hate to tell you, but the anti-choice extremists aren’t going away.

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09-22-09 By Kim | Comment (5)

Birth control does not equal abortion

Personhood Florida is pushing for an amendment to the Florida Constitution that defines someone as a person “from the beginning of the biological development of that human being," and resembles a measure that appeared on Colorado's 2008 ballot and was rejected by about 75 percent of voters.

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09-20-09 By Kim | Comment (1)

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