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Planned Parenthood starts new campaign to stave off anti-abortion-rights measures in 2012

By | 11.09.11 | 5:56 pm

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching — more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching.

Activists fight injunction against N.C. mandatory ultrasound law

By | 11.09.11 | 4:55 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The anti-abortion groups Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project (LOLP) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) have filed a motion to intervene in the injunction of a North Carolina law that would have forced abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them

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‘Personhood’ amendment loses in Mississippi

By | 11.09.11 | 9:53 am | More from The Florida Independent

Nearly 60 percent of Mississippi voters yesterday defeated the state’s controversial “fetal personhood” amendment, an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at the moment of conception. Though support for Amendment 26 was much stronger than in other states with similar personhood bills, concerns over the potential consequences of

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Boise crisis pregnancy center and Planned Parenthood clinic now neighbors

By | 11.08.11 | 2:00 pm

UPDATED Nov. 11, with additions to the list of services offered* by Stanton Healthcare

A Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, has a new neighbor, Stanton Healthcare, which identifies itself as a “life-affirming medical clinic … specializing in unexpected pregnancy care” but offers similar services to anti-abortion centers More…

Mississippians deeply divided on Personhood amendment, poll shows

By | 11.08.11 | 12:47 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Mississippians will decide today whether or not to approve a so-called “fetal personhood” amendment — a deeply divisive measure that would define life as beginning at the moment of conception.

Video: Iowa Rep. Golding says liberals make gay marriage single issue

By | 11.07.11 | 5:08 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

MARION — A handful of voters in Iowa Senate District 18 gathered in the Walmart parking lot Monday morning to hear from Republican candidate Cindy Golding and several social conservative groups that have supported her bid.

Branstad says GOP faces ‘uphill battle’ in Iowa’s SD 18 election

By | 11.07.11 | 3:04 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Gov. Terry Branstad says the Republican candidate in a Nov. 8 Iowa Senate special election faces “an uphill battle” and cautioned that special elections “are not much an indicator” for the mood of the electorate as whole.

Illinois Catholic Conference under fire for statements involving rape-victim advocate

By | 11.07.11 | 11:46 am

The Catholic Conference of Illinois has found itself in a public relations imbroglio after making derogatory statements about a rape-crisis counselor who will be receiving an award from Gov. Pat Quinn at an upcoming abortion-rights event, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Despite ‘concerns,’ Haley Barbour voted for Mississippi ‘personhood’ amendment

By | 11.04.11 | 6:03 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Image by Matt MahurinDespite expressing concerns with his state’s “fetal personhood” amendment, which would define life as beginning at conception, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour voted for it anyway. “He did vote absentee ballot in his hometown of Yazoo City yesterday and he did vote for the Personhood Amendment, which is called also More…

Santorum lays out his social policy vision in Iowa

By | 11.04.11 | 5:39 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

URBANDALE — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) says if elected president he will work to limit abortion and birth-control; ban stem-cell research and same-sex marriage; and abolish some areas of the judiciary.