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Idaho Gives Pass to Pharmacist Who Refused to Fill ‘Maybe Abortion’ Prescription

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Some of you guys might have read about this case online when it first came to attention in the press. A pharmacist in Idaho refused an anti-bleeding drug to a woman who had a valid prescription for said drug because she thought the patient might have had an abortion. According to the website RHRealityCheck:

‘According to [the] initial reporting about the story, back in 2010, the pharmacist ‘suspected’ the prescription may have been called in on behalf of a woman who had undergone an abortion. She asked the nurse for what reason she was prescribing the …

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Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts of Murder

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A Philadelphia doctor, Dr Kermit Gosnell, is facing eight murder charges for operating what one District Attorney has called a ‘filthy, foul-smelling house of horrors’ abortion clinic where two woman and several infants were killed. Though ‘house of horrors’ might sounds like a bit of an exaggeration, perhaps stated by someone very conservative and anti-abortion, sadly it transpires that it is not.

According to Yahoo News, some of the charges that will be brought against Gosnell include running a clinic with no medically-trained staff other than himself,  murdering at least one apparently healthy woman by administering  an overdose of Demerol, delivering babies live and then killing them with scissors – a procedure he referred to as ‘snipping’ – and allowing cats to roam freely throughout the clinic, urinating on already bloodstained …

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Are DIY Abortions What the Pro-Choice Movement Should Strive For?

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A recent Slate article discusses the popularity of at home abortions, a development many in the pro-choice community are probably horrified by. Oft considered the worst option for women who do not have available care, especially in areas of the United States where clinics are few and far between, or a relic of the pre-Roe v. Wade time, DIY abortions are most associated with coat hangers and other violent imagery. Taking abortion into ones own hands has never been part of the pro-choice rallying cry. In fact, the pro-choice movement has largely focused their efforts first on legalization, and second on reducing the stigma surrounding it so that women wouldn’t have to give themselves …

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BPAS to Sue British Government Over Abortion Rules

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Here in the UK, the government won’t allow women to take what is commonly (though ambiguously I think) known in the US as the ‘abortion pill’ at home. This is despite overwhelming evidence that it is safe to do so. And, after ten years of trying to get the government to change their stance on this, one abortion provider is now taking the UK government to court in a last-ditch attempt to change things.

The ‘abortion pill,’ as it is commonly known in the US, or ‘medical abortion’ as it is more commonly known on this side of the pond, requires two doses, taken 24-48 hours apart. In most countries …

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