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Anti-abortion websites cite report claiming medical abortions ‘less safe than surgery’

By | 05.12.11 | 9:13 am | More from The Florida Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinWithin hours of each other on Tuesday, four anti-abortion news websites posted information on a recently-released Australian report claiming that medical abortions are “less safe than surgery.” Previous research conducted in the U.S. contradicts the survey’s findings. #

TIME marks Planned Parenthood president one of world’s most influential people in 2011

By | 04.22.11 | 2:45 pm

TIME Magazine has deemed Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world. Richards joined Planned Parenthood in 2006.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — for whom Richards once served as deputy chief of staff — reviewed Richards for More…

Bachmann makes TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2011 list

By | 04.21.11 | 2:56 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

After campaigning over the last month on social media, Rep. Michele Bachmann secured enough votes from followers to be included in TIME magazine’s list of the top 100 most influential people of 2011. Controversial conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh wrote the profile on Bachmann for the magazine, and Bachmann More…

Did Mississippi Mother Lose Her Baby to Foster Care Because She Doesn’t Speak English?

By | 08.28.09 | 2:59 pm

Time has a shocking immigration story in its Aug. 27 issue about an undocumented woman originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was reported to the Department of Homeland Security for deportation when she showed up at a hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., to give birth. The agency took the  newborn More…