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    Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Planned Parenthood Action Fund candidate forum in June 2019 in Columbia, S.C. The group declined to back a candidate during the Democratic primaries but announced its support for Biden on Monday.
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    Planned Parenthood Backs Biden, Seeing A 'Life And Death Election' Ahead

    Jun 15, 2020
    Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorses former Vice President Joe Biden despite a mixed record on abortion rights. To support Democrats, the group is boosting spending by 50% over the 2016 campaign.
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    National
    Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. The birth control pill was approved by the FDA 60 years ago this week.
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    How The Approval Of The Birth Control Pill 60 Years Ago Helped Change Lives

    May 09, 2020
    Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Trump, Republicans Are 'Exploiting' Coronavirus To Ban Abortion, New Ad Alleges

    Apr 15, 2020
    A six-figure digital ad buy from the abortion rights group NARAL accuses President Trump and his allies of using the pandemic to restrict abortion.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Federal Court: Medication Abortions Can Proceed In Texas

    Apr 14, 2020
    A federal appeals court is allowing medication abortions to proceed in Texas despite an order suspending nonessential procedures.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Federal Appeals Court Panel Reaffirms Texas Abortion Ban Under Coronavirus Limits

    Apr 07, 2020
    The decision allows the ban while litigation continues. Top state Republican officials have said abortion is an elective procedure and should be suspended to save medical supplies during the pandemic.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Anti-Abortion Rights Groups Ask HHS To Urge End To Abortion During Pandemic

    Mar 24, 2020
    Groups opposed to abortion rights have signed a letter asking federal health officials to urge abortion providers to "cease operations" in an effort to preserve medical equipment.
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    Politics
    The Supreme Court will examine Trump administration regulations that allow employers to claim exemptions to the contraceptive insurance coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
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    Supreme Court Takes Up Birth-Control Conscience Case

    Jan 17, 2020
    The high court will consider a case involving a challenge to a Trump administration rule that allows employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage for religious or moral reasons.
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    Shots - Health News
    A Massachusetts woman who had an abortion when she was 15 stands outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston. Right now, girls facing that decision who don't want to tell their parents must get a judge's approval.
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    Massachusetts May Drop Requirement That Minors Get Permission For Abortion

    Jan 02, 2020
    The state now requires women and girls under 18 to obtain permission from their parents or a judge. But in a recent poll, most Massachusetts voters favored letting minors decide on their own.
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    World
    Unwed pregnant women in China face a legal gray zone where they are unable to access public services for themselves and their children.
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    In China, Kids Of Unwed Mothers May Be Barred From Public Health Care, Education

    Nov 06, 2019
    Being a mom without a husband leaves many women in a legal gray zone where they are unable to access medical and other public services for themselves and their children. Some women are even fined.
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    National
    A network of reproductive rights advocates is working to share information about self-induced abortion, both in person and over the Internet.
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    With Abortion Restrictions On The Rise, Some Women Induce Their Own

    Sep 19, 2019
    Activists are spreading information about self-induced abortion online and in person. The World Health Organization says a single drug, misoprostol, can be used to safely induce abortion.
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    U.S. Abortion Rate Continues Long-Term Decline In Most States

    Sep 17, 2019
    The rate fell again in the most recent Guttmacher Institute survey, continuing a decline since 1980.
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    Rebecca Gomperts says that the government has seized abortion drugs she has prescribed from overseas to patients in the U.S. The drugs are approved by the FDA to induce abortion under a doctor's direction.
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    European Doctor Who Prescribes Abortion Pills To U.S. Women Online Sues FDA

    Sep 09, 2019
    A federal lawsuit seeks to block the Food and Drug Administration from taking enforcement actions against a European doctor or her U.S.-based patients for prescribing or buying abortion pills online.
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    Shots - Health News
    In <em>The Vagina Bible</em>, gynecologist Jen Gunter dispels myths about the female body.
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    'Vagina Bible' Tackles Health And Politics In A Guide To Female Physiology

    Aug 27, 2019
    Frustrated with online marketing sites that peddle needless "health aids" and fears, gynecologist and columnist Jen Gunter aims to dispel myths about the female body and restore power to patients.
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    National
    Unless a federal court intervenes, Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people.
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    Planned Parenthood To Withdraw From Title X, Unless Court Intervenes

    Aug 14, 2019
    Planned Parenthood officials asked for a stay against new Trump administration rules that forbid organizations receiving Title X funds to provide or refer patients for abortion.
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    Supporters of Planned Parenthood demonstrated at New York's City Hall against the Trump administration's Title X rule change in February. Planned Parenthood now says it clinics nationwide will stop using federal Title X family planning funds.
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    Planned Parenthood Officials Say They've Halted Use Of Title X Family Planning Funds

    Jul 17, 2019
    The move follows an announcement this week by the Trump administration that it will enforce new rules forbidding groups that receive the funds from counseling patients about abortion.
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    Natalie Lynch at home with her youngest child, Maycen. In 2014, when Lynch was pregnant with her older child, she spent two weeks before giving birth in<strong> </strong>a prison cell, mostly alone.
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    Pregnant, Locked Up, And Alone

    Jun 16, 2019
    Natalie Lynch spent the last two weeks of her pregnancy in a prison cell, mostly alone. As female incarceration rates rise, some states are banning solitary confinement of pregnant women.
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    National
    Abortion-rights activists, politicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood gather for a demonstration against the Trump administration's Title X rule change on Feb. 25 in New York. Multiple lawsuits have been filed opposing the new rule.
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    Trump's Overhaul Of Federal Family Planning Program Faces Multiple Lawsuits

    Mar 06, 2019
    The Trump administration has finalized new rules that bar federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. Abortion-rights supporters call that prohibition a "gag" rule.
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    Politics
    Abortion opponents see the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court as an opportunity to push for further abortion restrictions. Abortion supporters are preparing for a fight.
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    With Kavanaugh Confirmed, Both Sides Of Abortion Debate Gear Up For Battle

    Oct 10, 2018
    With a new Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood is planning for a more difficult legal landscape for abortion rights. Abortion rights opponents see an opportunity they haven't had in decades.
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    Politics
    Abortion rights supporters in Seattle protest on Tuesday against President Trump and his choice of federal appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his second nominee to the Supreme Court. Activists are preparing for the possibility that Kavanaugh's confirmation
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    Abortion Rights Advocates Preparing For Life After Roe V. Wade

    Jul 12, 2018
    With Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination still up for debate, activists are planning for potential battles in state legislatures if the court eventually weakens national abortion rights.
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    National
    Abortion-rights advocate Kim Gibson, a "clinic defender," keeps watch at the entrance of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic, the only clinic providing abortions in Mississippi, last month.
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    Reproductive Rights Advocates Challenge Dozens Of Mississippi Abortion Restrictions

    Apr 09, 2018
    The state recently passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, and advocates are now challenging a slate of other laws and regulations restricting the procedure.
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    National
    Emily Chesnut with her daughter Nora, 6.
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    Down Syndrome Families Divided Over Abortion Ban

    Dec 13, 2017
    An Ohio bill would ban abortions after a Down syndrome diagnosis. It has become a divisive issue in the community, much like it is everywhere else.
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    The Two-Way

    Undocumented Teen Held In Texas Is At The Heart Of An Abortion Fight

    Oct 13, 2017
    The unaccompanied minor from Central America, 17, has not been allowed to leave her federal shelter to get the procedure. The ACLU has sued, calling it unprecedented, unconstitutional and inhumane.
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    Shots - Health News
    A gestational surrogate is a woman who carries a fetus but is not genetically related to it, in order to help other people become parents.
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    States Wrestle With Legalizing Payments For Gestational Surrogates

    Mar 10, 2017
    The Minnesota legislature is considering letting women who act as gestational surrogates get paid for carrying a fetus for other parents. States vary widely in their approach to the practice.
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    The Two-Way
    Opponents of abortion rights gather at the Washington Monument to hear Vice President Pence speak at the March for Life rally on Friday.
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    On Abortion, Goals Of Back-To-Back Marches Couldn't Be More Different

    Jan 27, 2017

    Less than a week after the Women's March, anti-abortion activists are taking to the streets for what they call the March for Life.

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