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Healthcare Prof: 3 (1 votes) Jim Wallis, an evangelical leader and editor of the liberal Christian journal Sojourners, rejected recent reports that indicated he wanted Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to add a plank to the Democratic Party platform urging a reduction within the number of abortions performed, Newsweek reports. On Wednesday, an ABC News blog [...]
Healthcare Prof: 3 (2 votes) Planned Parenthood Federation of America on Monday officially ended its relationship with an affiliate once known as Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties after a March review found many problems, which includes harassment complaints, plagiarism and possible mismanagement of nearly $450,000, the Miami Herald reports (Samuels, Miami [...]
Healthcare Prof: The number of abortions in Wisconsin declined for the fourth year in a row in 2007, marking the lowest recorded number since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, in accordance with a report by the state Department of Health and Loved ones Services, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The report found that [...]
Healthcare Prof: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the first Amendment rights of two antiabortion advocates had been violated when they had been ordered to quit circling a Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., middle school in a truck displaying graphic images of aborted fetuses, the Los Angeles [...]
Healthcare Prof: 5 (1 votes) Richmond, Va., Roman Catholic Bishop Francis DiLorenzo in a letter published on Monday apologized after Commonwealth Catholic Charities employees helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl obtain an abortion in January, the New York Times reports. A spokesperson for HHS said the department in April asked its inspector general to investigate whether [...]