Rocked by sex and pedophilia scandals, the Catholic church has been losing members by the millions.

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Two articles: Faith Communities Coalesce Against Stupak

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WASHINGTON — Rights advocates Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill. "We had the most pro-choice candidate in  …

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Director Abby Johnson said, "I left on good terms and simply had a change of heart on this issue.

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Granting women control over their own reproduction would combat overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions

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Considering how ashamed and fearful many women are sharing they've had one abortion, it's pretty annoying that a woman gets a book deal for telling everybody how she's had over a dozen.

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These are among the items that abortion foes plan to auction on eBay and other Web sites in a fundraiser for Scott Roeder, the Kansas City man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller.

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It wasn't just that it was a man telling me to make pro-life cupcakes and give them to children. Nor that the sweet, innocent little cakes were finished with cursive slogans like "Murder" on them.

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Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report suggests.

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A new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women's abortions to the State's Department Of Health, which will then post the collected data on a public website.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A lawsuit challenging a controversial abortion bill was filed Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court.

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As if women didn't have enough threats to their right to choose in this country, Oklahoma is doing its part to make sure women slowly but surely are demonized and criminalized for their right to choose to have an abortion.

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"Feminists for Choice alerts us to a new Oklahoma law (yes, law, not "proposed legislation" or "some kind of sick joke") set to go into effect Nov. 1 that would collect detailed data about each abortion performed -- and post it all on a public Web site...."

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A challenge to pro-life advocates

In another thread I posed a question to the pro-life crowd, but I received no answers or even bad attempts at an answer. So I decided to post this question again, in it's own thread, just to make sure it gets seen by at least one pro-lifer.

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A poll by the Pew Research Center found that 47 percent of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases — a 7-point drop from a survey conducted by the organization one year ago.

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For most of the last two decades, a clear majority of Americans has supported the right to abortion. A new poll, though, suggests that support for abortion may have declined, with the public almost evenly divided over the issue.

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Irene Vilar worries that her self-described "abortion addiction" will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.

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Two articles: What kind of laws do you have over there in Australia? I'm very disappointed in Australia. Here I thought it was the kind of place where individuality was valued, and there was some good old rugged common sense to the people.

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"Women who have an abortion may run an increased risk of subsequently giving birth to premature or low-weight babies, according to a study." Click on Read Article to read this Guardian article discussing the journal article.

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When it comes down to it, though, most of us realize that not all pro-lifers are quite that hypocritical or extreme in their beliefs or actions.

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Florida has done it again, folks. Yes, the state that brought you Bush v. Gore, the sex offender colony under the bridge, and the shoot-first-ask-questions-later legislation known as the "Stand Your Ground Law" has another idea up its sleeve. And this one's for the ladies.

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Planned Parenthood Arizona Inc. filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court Monday claiming a new abortion laws approved by Gov. Jan Brewer in July violates privacy and due process clauses of the state and U.S.

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"The case against abortion must include a case against sexual libertinism" according to this opinion piece.

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Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley last night issued a forceful defense of his decision to participate in the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, an appearance that has drawn sharp criticism from some conservative Catholics because of Kennedy's ardent support for abortion rights.

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"I think for a lot of students right now, it's very hard to be confronted with the constant negative energy and constant fighting" that surrounds abortion, said Miller, who grew up in a southern Virginia city where antiabortion sentiment runs high.

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