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Nebraska Bill Would Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Nebraska lawmakers have found a new tactic in the fight against abortion: If a fetus can feel pain, they say, it cannot be aborted. So they are moving forward with the Abortion Pain Prevention Act, a bill aimed at ending the "substantial pain" to the "unborn child" caused by abortion. If the bill passes, the state will become the first in the country to forbid abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother's life is threatened. If the bill passes, it likely will be challenged in the Supreme Court. The vast majority of abortions, just under 90 percent, take place before ...
Does Ireland's Abortion Law Violate Human Rights?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Ria and Melinda, it looks like you aren't the only ones questioning whose rights are really at stake in the abortion debate. Yesterday, in a potentially landmark case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, heard the case of three women seeking to overturn Ireland's strict abortion law on the grounds that it violated their human rights. ...
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