Sweden Okays Abortion Based on Gender of Child

It is legal in Sweden today to have an abortion for the reason that the sex of the child is not what is desired.
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Guest on Oprah's Show Proclaims that Parkinson's Cure is Near

Dr. Oz, a scientist advocating the use of adult stem cells in the cure of Parkinson's Disease, tells Michael J. Fox that the adult stem cell techniques developed in the last year may help yield a cure in the next few years.

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FDA Says Yes To Morning After Pill for 17 year-olds

"Heeding a March 23 federal court order, the US Food and Drug Administration has permitted the manufacturer of the Plan B ‘morning-after’ pill to make the abortifacient and contraceptive available to 17-year-olds without a prescription."

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This action will make it difficult in many cases to catch sex offenders and/or cover up statutory rape.

UN Committee Continues to Push Countries with Restrictive Abortion Policies

The UN group that oversees the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Descrimation Against Women (CEDAW) continues to pressure countries with significant legal restrictions on abortion. In recent meetings, the group recently probed represantives from Dominica, Armenia, Haiti, Cameroon, Libya, Rwanda, Germany, and Guatemala. The CEDAW document does not list restrictive abortion laws as a form of discrimination against women.

The United States has not formally ratified CEDAW. There is pressure to do so.

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C-Fam Petitions UN to Recognize Rights of Unborn

C-Fam is racing to gather 1,000,000 signatures to present the UN with support for the inclusion of the unborn in their historic "Univeral Declaration of Human Rights" - now 60 years old.
The stark absence of the consideration of unborn human life, has encouraged abortion groups such as Mary Stopes Interational to push their own petitions calling for “Global Safe Abortion” and the recognition of a right to an abortion as a universal human right.

C-Fam currently has 400,000 signatures.

They want a million by the end of August 2009.

C-Fam petition

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Planned Parenthood Downsizing

Apparently, the economic situation has Planned Parenthood cutting staff by 20%. More in this short article - Crain's New York Business .

Obama Picks Abortion Advocate for Director of Domestic Policy Counsel

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