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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unsealed two lawsuits demanding that Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) return abortion records to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, the Kansas City Star reports. In unsealing the cases, the court released hundreds of documents related to the two cases.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday in a meeting with antiabortion advocates in Italy criticized the country’s 1978 law that legalized abortion, Reuters/San Diego Union Tribune reports. The law bans most abortions after the first 90 days of pregnancy. The law allows procedures until 24 weeks’ gestation if the pregnant woman’s life is at risk or if the fetus is abnormal.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
A Kansas judge on Monday dismissed a subpoena from Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) regarding abortion records from Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s clinic Comprehensive Health, the Kansas City Star reports.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
A Missouri judge on Friday ruled against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s challenge to a state law that would designate facilities performing second- or third-trimester abortions or more than five first-trimester abortions each month as “ambulatory surgical centers,” making them subject to increased regulation from the state
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday said that the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings on birth control are complicated but that the church’s 1968 document that condemned contraception use is laudable, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
The Arizona Board of Nursing’s Advance Practice Committee has voted unanimously to recommend that nurse practitioners be allowed to perform first-trimester abortions in the state, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The full nursing board is scheduled to vote on the recommendation on Wednesday.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
Research published in today’s (Friday 9 May 2008) BMJ1 concludes that over a recent twelve2 year period there was no significant improvement in the survival of babies born before 24 weeks gestation. Given this new data, the BMA is calling on MPs to vote against any attempt to reduce the 24-week upper time limit for abortion.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
Poland’s Roman Catholic bishops on Friday released a statement expressing “firm opposition” to an April Council of Europe resolution that appealed to all 47 Council member countries to legalize abortion despite opposition from Poland and other members, Agence France-Presse reports. The Council in its April resolution called for all member states to guarantee the right to safe and legal abortion.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
The Newark Star-Ledger on Friday examined the views on abortion of the three Republican candidates for an open New Jersey U.S. Senate seat. According to the Star-Ledger, former U.S. Rep. Dick Zimmer, state Sen. Joseph Pennacchio and Murray Sabrin, a professor at
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationAbortion
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will not hear an appeal of a case in which a man was seeking asylum because his partner was forced to have an abortion in China, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The case involves Yi Qiang Yang, whose partner, Hui Ling, was forced to undergo an abortion by Chinese family planning officials when she was eight months pregnant.
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