According to statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, nearly one in three women will have an abortion by age 45 and one in 10 will have an abortion by age 20.
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At 17, Lorena Soto was forced to have an abortion.
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Such centers encourage pregnant women not to have an abortion.
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Suppose the surrogate decides she wants to have an abortion.
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Teens who have an abortion don't get the same reinforcements.
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Personally I would never encourage someone to have an abortion.
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Cherished rights like a woman's right to have an abortion
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One of them arranged for her to have an abortion.
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It's interesting that he, too, wants Diane to have an abortion.
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The decision to have an abortion is not a political decision.
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Casey, that upheld the right to have an abortion before viability.
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The right to have an abortion as set by Roe vs.
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After talking to her husband, she decides to have an abortion.
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The decision to have an abortion was painful enough, she says.
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One in four women will have an abortion in their lifetime.
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Roe goes beyond the right to choose to have an abortion.
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She ultimately went to a different hospital to have an abortion.
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Casey decision, which reaffirmed the constitutional right to have an abortion.
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And of course, he cannot force you to have an abortion.
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And aren't allowed to have an abortion if they get pregnant.
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She was planning to have an abortion, but she backed out.
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Wade decision, established a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion.
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She wanted Lucía to have an abortion, and she wanted it immediately.
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This time, she was the one who chose to have an abortion.
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"The constitutional right to have an abortion is at stake," Berkley said.
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If you don't want to have a child, you have an abortion.
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Her co-workers raise enough money for her to have an abortion.
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Nearly one in three women in this country will have an abortion.
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It is illegal to have an abortion in Texas after 20 weeks.
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"We are not pushing for everyone to have an abortion," she said.
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"Her parents were never going to let her have an abortion," she said.
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"It is just that we no longer have an abortion provider," Flores said.
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I tried to have an abortion by swallowing pills, but that didn't work.
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While in another storyline, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) decided to have an abortion.
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Normally, I'd think, well, if you're pro-life, you don't have an abortion.
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The decision to have an abortion was easy for her and her husband.
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"If I could go back, I still wouldn't have an abortion," she said.
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When someone decides to have an abortion, it should be safe and accessible.
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She's a mother of two who never wanted to have an abortion herself.
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In fact, 90 percent of US counties do not have an abortion provider.
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She was advised by her doctor to have an abortion for medical reasons.
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Nearly one in four American women will have an abortion in her lifetime.
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Wade, the 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to have an abortion.
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Wade, which affirmed the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion.
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And one in four women have an abortion by the time they're 45.
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Tim Murphy amid allegations that he asked his mistress to have an abortion.
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Wade, the Supreme Court decision that affirmed women's rights to have an abortion.
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I just consider myself one of the lucky people that I was able to gather the money together to have an abortion, and to have an abortion so I could better care for the two children that I already had.
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They also want the public to believe that women regret their abortions; that choosing to have an abortion is always an agonizing decision; that to have an abortion is a misstep, a slip, a mistake that can and should be remedied.
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"There was no question that I was going to have an abortion," she recalled.
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Have an abortion or go back to Wisconsin, but you are not taking Ben.
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Her sister, Krisbell said, was four months pregnant, and wanted to have an abortion.
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Wade, which guarantees women the right to have an abortion (though with many caveats).
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She also says he got her pregnant but convinced her to have an abortion.
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"I didn't set out to have an abortion," she tells me over the phone.
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Wade, the Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.
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The crux of the issue is not whether you would have an abortion yourself.
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The woman who can afford to fly to wherever she can have an abortion?
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CNN: Can any woman simply choose to have an abortion late in her pregnancy?
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"If it's not government's business, then you have to accept the whole of that concept, which means you don't proscribe your right to have an abortion and you don't take your money to assist someone else to have an abortion," then-Sen.
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I didn't have a big emotional conflict about whether or not to have an abortion.
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We know that about one in three women will have an abortion by age 45.
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Both Mississippi and Arkansas require consent from parents for a minor to have an abortion.
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She's also had hard conversations with her mother about her decision to have an abortion.
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Wade was decided in 1973 not to have an abortion clinic, according to Planned Parenthood.
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Wade , the landmark 1973 decision that constitutionally protected a woman's right to have an abortion.
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"Not every woman can afford to travel to England to have an abortion," she says.
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A woman's right to have an abortion is under assault in states across the country.
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There are now 16 states where 95% of counties do not have an abortion clinic.
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Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to have an abortion.
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A woman who chooses to have an abortion is, apparently, not taking responsibility for herself.
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He said he was afraid they might get upset, kill themselves, or have an abortion.
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My ability to have an abortion will forever be something for which I feel gratitude.
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She told everyone who would listen that she didn't have an abortion but a miscarriage.
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Tim Murphy, resigned after news broke that he had pressured his mistress to have an abortion.
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Back then, the court upheld a woman's right to choose to have an abortion before viability.
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Medical support will be provided for those who have an abortion with pills in Northern Ireland.
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He said that resulted in an undue burden on a woman's right to have an abortion.
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She talks about her own daughter, who was advised by a doctor to have an abortion.
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Foremost among these is a woman's right to choose to have an abortion under Roe v.
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Wade, threatens to imperil the 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to have an abortion.
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Jasmine ultimately decided to have an abortion - which as a devout Catholic went against her beliefs.
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"My living son owes his life to me being able to have an abortion," says Rachel.
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So Anna went to the Planned Parenthood clinic in her town, looking to have an abortion.
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I knew from past experiences that if I needed to [have an abortion], I could do it.
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These centers operate under the illusion of being helpful to women who want to have an abortion.
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Nearly one in four women in America will have an abortion at some point in her life.
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Witness his recent positioning and repositioning on the question of a woman's right to have an abortion.
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She also said that Dorsey was completely understanding about her decision to have an abortion in 2010.
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Lawyers for Arkansas said their appeal does not directly challenge a woman's right to have an abortion.
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So it's not going to be quick or easy — and it's never easy to have an abortion.
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One in three American women will have an abortion in their lifetime, making the procedure surprisingly common.
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On average, nine women travel from Ireland every day to Britain in order to have an abortion.
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He repeatedly questioned whether Jane Doe could be released to a sponsor and then have an abortion.
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When access to safe care is cut off, women will find a way to have an abortion.
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Some friends chipped in, and that's the way I was able to afford to have an abortion.
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Arkansas reduced by two weeks the time frame in which a woman can have an abortion legally.
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Wade ruled to protect rights for women who choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
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An increasing number of states require counseling and waiting periods before a woman can have an abortion.
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I pondered whether I would ever choose to have an abortion if faced with an unplanned pregnancy.
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"A 12-year-old can't decide for herself if she is ready to have an abortion," she said.
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According to a recent study, about 90% of counties in the US do not have an abortion provider.
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But the church, local authorities, the nurses — they all conspired to make sure she didn't have an abortion.
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Research has shown that about one in four women will have an abortion by the age of 45.
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Tim Murphy — a conservative who faced allegations that he encouraged a mistress to have an abortion — from office.
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As the season has progressed, we've seen Laurel attend doctor's appointments; it's clear she didn't have an abortion.
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The Post-Gazette called the incident an "unfounded pregnancy scare" so presumably Edwards did not have an abortion.
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"The statistic is that one in four women will have an abortion before age 45," the actress said.
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Wade was decided in 1973 to not have an abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood said in a statement Tuesday.
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We know that one in three women in the United States will have an abortion in their lifetime.
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One in three women in America have an abortion, but most of their friends and families don't know.
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As a result, while few woman want to have an abortion, many do for a variety of reasons.
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Donald Trump has said American women might just "have to go to another state" to have an abortion.
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Abortion is also common — one in four women in this country will have an abortion in her lifetime.
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Wade, the landmark 1973 case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, could be in jeopardy.
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The law would not apply to women who must have an abortion because their life is at risk.
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"Women don't just wake up one morning and decide they're going to have an abortion," Dr. Lawrence said.
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Even among the activists, the idea of the right to have an abortion was considered a Western concept.
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In 2008, it was estimated that one-third of American women would have an abortion at some point.
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The after-school teacher and her husband already had two daughters and so decided to have an abortion.
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Servicewomen who have an abortion should have the same options as other women in the military, she said.
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That being said, blackness is not a choice in the way that deciding to have an abortion is.
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The video shows that Lundgren is asked several times if a woman who miscarries can have an abortion.
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"When I got pregnant I immediately informed my superiors and organized everything to have an abortion," she said.
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Too often, women who choose to have an abortion face significant stigma and shame — I see it every day.
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Sometimes, it's a pro-life Republican representative trying to convince his mistress to have an abortion via text message.
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"One stands with families; one supports allowing minors to have an abortion without parents' knowledge," says a female narrator.
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Wade, which guarantees women the right to have an abortion until the fetus is viable, typically around 24 weeks.
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"The decision to have an abortion is for a woman to make, not the Governor of Indiana," Sanders tweeted.
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She hopes they help the public reconsider the conventional wisdom on who choses to have an abortion and why.
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One in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime, according to research from the Guttmacher Institute.
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It also included women who were coerced either to continue a pregnancy or have an abortion against their will.
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Clinic closures in the Lone Star State also forced women to drive four times farther to have an abortion.
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Kavanaugh voted to vacate a lower court's ruling that would have allowed the immigrant teen to have an abortion.
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Due to various medical conditions, her pregnancy put her life in danger, and she wanted to have an abortion.
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Among those who tried to have an abortion was Zuleima, a 37-year-old mother of two healthy daughters.
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Then she heard about how Irish women are prohibited from choosing whether or not they can have an abortion.
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It wasn't easy, but if I had it to do over again, I would have an abortion every time.
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Wade granting women the right to choose to have an abortion is "settled law," the New York Times reports.
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At least one resident sued for the right to have an abortion in a high-profile case last March.
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But their relationship grew fraught, friends would later say, after Mr. Durst pressed his wife to have an abortion.
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Our founding fathers got this right; the choice to have an abortion or a child belonged to the woman.
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When Ms. Carvalho told him in a text message that she intended to have an abortion, he didn't respond.
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So, why would we accept that a child can simply inform their parents they intend to have an abortion?
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So I knew immediately I was going to have an abortion; I didn't really have to think about it.
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Tim Murphy, who resigned after allegedly urging a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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To the Editor: It took guts for Lori Szala to write about her decision not to have an abortion.
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We know that women who make the decision to have an abortion do so in a considered, deliberate fashion.
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"I wasn't scared because I had made up my mind that I was going to have an abortion," she said.
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But when she found out she was pregnant, both her mother and Rose would encourage her to have an abortion.
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For instance, in certain areas of South Dakota, women had to travel more than 43 miles to have an abortion.
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I chose to be a provider, whereas no one chooses to have to face the decision to have an abortion.
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Others said that girls would be more likely to have an abortion if they're pregnant and unable to get married.
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"Not to provide women necessarily with abortions, but to provide women with the option to have an abortion," she says.
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Mr Murphy, publicly a social conservative, was caught sending text messages to his mistress urging her to have an abortion.
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The decision to have an abortion threw her into a moral crisis about who she was and what she valued.
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The ACLU says the law unconstitutionally invades a woman's privacy and interferes with her protected decision to have an abortion.
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"Arkansas cannot veto a woman's decision to have an abortion, period," said Talcott Camp of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project.
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The measure would explicitly say the state constitution does not include the right for a woman to have an abortion.
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Both sides are trying to determine what does and does not limit a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion.
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Growing up in Kentucky, Underwood had dreamed of becoming a mother, and she never thought she would have an abortion.
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About 30 percent of American women, nearly one in three, will have an abortion by the time they turn 45.
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Nobody wants to have an abortion, it's not on anyone's bucket list, but medically it's extremely simple and extremely safe.
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In Vermont, the bill would prohibit the government from interfering in any way with the right to have an abortion.
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It will, at some level, always be cheaper for a woman to have an abortion than to have a baby.
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What will you do when an underground railroad must be set up for women who need to have an abortion?
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When she became pregnant, she said, he drove her to Pristina in January and forced her to have an abortion.
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Tim Murphy, who resigned after allegedly urging a woman with whom he was having an affair to have an abortion.
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Akin was asked in an interview if a woman should be allowed to have an abortion if she was raped.
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Brunei's new penal laws proscribe imprisonment for women who have an abortion or who have a child out of wedlock.
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"In Texas, it is illegal for you to have an abortion after 20 weeks," the woman at the clinic said.
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She knows he has been accused of paying for a lover to have an abortion and has admitted taking cocaine.
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Wade, the court decided that the right to privacy under the 14th Amendment included a woman's right to have an abortion.
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These calls include women, who have been raped, or are victims of incest, concerned they can no longer have an abortion.
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Wade, ruled on in 1973, affirms a woman's right in the United States to have an abortion under the US Constitution.
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That case upheld women&aposs right to have an abortion but also gave states more authority in how to regulate it.
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A woman can choose whether to have an abortion to keep the child, without the man involved interfering with her choice.
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Democratic senators criticised Mr Kavanaugh's dissent from a ruling which permitted a young illegal immigrant in custody to have an abortion.
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I was flattered, and hoped that my time in the spotlight could potentially help her decide not to have an abortion.
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When his mother learned about her pregnancy, Philipps writes that she was told that it was selfish to have an abortion.
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And we don't think that women should be punished, as Donald Trump showed, for making the decision to have an abortion.
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Tim Murphy resigned after reports that he had encouraged his former mistress to have an abortion, despite his pro-life stance.
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These calls include women, who have been raped, or are victims of incest concerned they can no longer have an abortion.
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Lawmakers are considering a bill to allow women to have an abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy without any restrictions.
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The 1 in 3 Campaign springs from the statistic that 1 in 3 women will have an abortion in their lifetime.
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He arranged for her to have an abortion, and during the procedure she was sterilized without her or her husband's consent.
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It established that the U.S. Constitution protects the right of a woman to have an abortion until the point of viability.
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Hellerstedt isn't actually the legal right to have an abortion, but what states are allowed to do to regulate the procedure.
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Her pregnancy was discovered during a physical exam, and since then she had been fighting in court to have an abortion.
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Twenty years later, at an anniversary event, Ms. Pyne spoke of the complex emotions surrounding her choice to have an abortion.
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Stewart fires back in the docs, claiming they lost the child because Haddish went to the doctor to have an abortion.
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Last year, Rebeca Mendes, a mother of two, unsuccessfully sought to get permission from the Supreme Court to have an abortion.
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It's all about control — whether you're telling a woman she can't have an abortion, or forcing a woman to get one.
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Either way, there was no question in my mind that I would not have an abortion, no matter what the circumstance.
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"It is merely seeking to place the minor in a better place when deciding whether to have an abortion," he said.
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But if you have access to sex education and to birth control, then you often don't have to have an abortion.
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She decides to have an abortion but struggles with figuring out how to tell the father, who continues to pursue her.
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She gave a second child up for adoption, but when she got pregnant a third time she decided to have an abortion.
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You can have an abortion at any licensed clinic; you don't have to be a resident of the state where it's located.
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When he joked about going back in time to convince Donald Trump's mother to have an abortion he hit a few nerves.
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The Berlin Station star also said that her or anyone else's decision to have an abortion does not affect their religious beliefs.
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The researchers first asked women 16 questions about how certain they were about their decision to have an abortion before these meetings.
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But his dissent did not go so far as to say that choosing to have an abortion is unconstitutional, according to Politico.
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But federal officials have refused to transport her or temporarily release her so that others may take her to have an abortion.
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He signed several laws making it harder to have an abortion and others that made it easier to get hold of guns.
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Irish actress Tara Flynn spoke in 2015 of her decision to have an abortion in 2006, traveling to Holland for the procedure.
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In season 5, Olivia made the difficult choice to have an abortion, all while Mellie filibustered to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Last month, Lahren got in hot water for saying that the government should not interfere with women's right to have an abortion.
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Again, this disturbing comment is all about Loreen's biggest anxieties, as opposed to Hannah's monumental life choice not to have an abortion.
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New Delhi (CNN)India's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by a 10-year-old rape victim to have an abortion.
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Around the three-minute mark, the fictional fetus lashes out at the mother when it realizes she intends to have an abortion.
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And that statistic sometimes surprises people and maybe you're sitting there thinking 'I don't know a woman who would have an abortion.
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One in ten women will have an abortion by the age of 20, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and access is crucial.
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Whether they choose to become parents or have an abortion, to use birth control or not, the choice is theirs to make.
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Renee was relieved and, to this day, believes her decision to have an abortion was one of the best she's ever made.
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If John walks away, knowing he got her pregnant and suspecting she will have an abortion, he may be committing child neglect.
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She also raised an allegation that he had once pressured an employee to have an abortion, a charge Mr. Bloomberg vehemently denied.
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The women in this film had already made the decision to have an abortion, a decision fraught with emotional and moral weight.
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At times, she had compelling urges to have an abortion, just to escape an endless pain no one seemed able to diagnose.
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About a week later, she made a decision that nearly one million American women make each year: She would have an abortion.
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Never mind that more than half of women who have an abortion are already mothers and know intimately the responsibility of parenthood.
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The announcement follows a report this week suggesting he urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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The law was on her side; rape is among the few instances in which females in Argentina may legally have an abortion.
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In the December deposition, Lloyd confirmed that the meeting took place, but said she had already decided not to have an abortion.
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For instance, I would argue that the right to have an abortion is not a constitutional right, and thus Roe should be overturned.
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I thought about being connected to this man for the rest of my life, and I made a decision [to have an abortion].
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"In 1990 a woman maybe could have an abortion at 25 weeks, but in 2020 perhaps it will be 20 weeks," said Cohen.
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I was relieved, and to this day, the decision to have an abortion is still one of the best I have ever made.
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"Nobody needs your white-savior shit on the day you're about to have an abortion; no one needs your white advice," Laurie continued.
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Wade recognized that the constitutional right to privacy applies to women making their own personal medical decisions, including deciding to have an abortion.
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At most, the judge would say that the woman can have an abortion if she wants to, and that's material, not formal, cooperation.
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Soon after that, TMZ reported that Brussaux received alleged text messages from the rapper telling her he wanted her to have an abortion.
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Now nearly 16 weeks pregnant, the girl—known as Jane Doe or J.D. to protect her privacy—would like to have an abortion.
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With their relationship already showing signs of strain, and after a few brief separations, Gardner chose to have an abortion in late-1952.
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Television tends to focus on its characters making the choice to have an abortion — perhaps because that's where emotional conflict often stems from.
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Woodward returned to Los Angeles briefly a few weeks later, where he met Greaves and asked her once again to have an abortion.
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Women who have been physically or sexually abused are more likely to have an abortion, experience depression, or get HIV, the group said.
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Murphy announced yesterday that he wouldn't be seeking reelection in 2018 after news broke that he'd pushed his mistress to have an abortion.
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A doctor tried to convince her to have an abortion, saying she was one of countless teen moms he'd seen just that week.
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So did Richards, who became famous for her bright pink suits and her willingness to discuss her own decision to have an abortion.
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Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling affirming the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
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And we don't think that women should be punished, as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.
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"It's illegal to talk about abortion, it's practically illegal to have an abortion, now it's illegal to even joke about abortion," says Veronica.
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One in five women will turn to Planned Parenthood for care during their lifetimes, and one in three women will have an abortion.
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One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45, and major complications occur in less than 1 percent of procedures.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal's essay about why she chose to have an abortion sparked a flurry of personal accounts — and some pushback — from readers.
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Most notably, Yang was one of the first characters on primetime television to decide to have an abortion and go through with it.
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She claimed that in 1992, when she was 15 , he impregnated her and that he drove her to Mississippi to have an abortion.
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Thirty-seven states currently require the involvement of a parent in a minor's decision to have an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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After she had been raped by a boy she had known since second grade, Ms. Judd said she opted to have an abortion.
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"The real danger is someone thinking, 'Oh, this Plan B pill could help me have an abortion—it's the same thing,'" Carter said.
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Now, on April 11 students are planning to walk out of their schools to protest the constitutionally protected right to have an abortion.
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During that time she was forced to have an abortion, but the procedure was botched and left her hemorrhaging alone in her bedroom.
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The incidence of coerced abortion in the U.S., or assault against pregnant women for refusing to have an abortion, has been frequently documented.
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Farrah has also accused her mother of pressuring her to go through with her teen pregnancy despite Farrah's desire to have an abortion.
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By 20, Evans was married to Rogers and wrote that she learned she was pregnant with his baby but decided to have an abortion.
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To be clear, Dubay wasn't arguing that a man should actually be able to decide whether or not a woman should have an abortion.
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With so few providers in the second-largest state in the nation, many women are forced to travel long distances to have an abortion.
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"I knew at that time, I was not equipped to be a mother, and so I chose to have an abortion," Milano, 46, said.
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Tim Murphy, who resigned last year after reports revealed he had asked a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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One in four women will have an abortion before age 45, Phillips said, citing a study published by the American Journal of Public Health.
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As with our character, Maude Findlay, the majority of women who have an abortion today are already mothers, and don't make the decision lightly.
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"Given the grave prognosis," the mother decided to have an abortion, the researchers wrote in the study; she was five months pregnant by then.
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Tim Murphy and his mistress, in which he pushed her to have an abortion during a pregnancy scare despite his public pro-life stance.
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But, leaving the EU could make it significantly more difficult for Irish women to travel to the UK in order to have an abortion.
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One in three of us will have an abortion by age 45, and criminalizing that common, necessary procedure will result in unnecessary maternal mortality.
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Wade to be overturned, and the best available data suggests that 25 to 30 percent of women will have an abortion before age 45.
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Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, used the document to outline why he decided the teen shouldn't have an abortion.
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These days, as few as four per cent of the women who visit C.P.C.s are pregnant and undecided about whether to have an abortion.
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"Illegal aliens do not have a right to have an abortion in the United States," the group's attorney, Andrew Schlafly, argued in the brief.
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In the small, socially conservative Central American country, women who have an abortion, or simply miscarry, can face up to 50 years in prison.
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What it's about: Jenny Slate stars in a painful comedy about deciding whether to have an abortion and the uncomfortable realities of young womanhood.
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In one such episode, she was forced to have an abortion after he punched her in the face and stomach when she was pregnant.
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It's absolutely fucking ridiculous that in Ireland today you need to go to another country or do something really dangerous to have an abortion.
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I understand why many people believe women should have the right to control their bodies and choose to have an abortion at any time.
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They don't even know that the health system of Colombia is supposed to pay for it when a woman wants to have an abortion.
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He was then asked if he thought it would be acceptable that women might have to travel to another state to have an abortion.
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The language was interpreted by the employee as ordering her to have an abortion in order to keep her job, The Washington Post reported.
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Far fewer but still a majority, 55%, said women should be allowed to have an abortion if they no longer wish to be pregnant.
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The landmark 1973 ruling, which affirms that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution protects a woman's right to have an abortion, is under threat.
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Murphy, a vocal opponent of abortion rights, resigned from the seat in October after reports that he asked his mistress to have an abortion.
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Tim Murphy resigned in October after the anti-abortion Republican allegedly urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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Mr. Ahmad had pills delivered to Mah Yamsar that would help her have an abortion, which occurred in the seventh month of her pregnancy.
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It's this exact reason that it's nonsensical to legislate these cases: Nobody arrives at the decision to have an abortion after 24 weeks carelessly.
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When she is asked again, she says that the bill permits that a woman can have an abortion if her life is in danger.
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Every pregnancy is unique, and every woman's decision about her pregnancy — whether to parent, choose adoption, or have an abortion — should be respected and valued.
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Because of my fear and lack of resources, I didn't confide in my mother or grandmother until it was too late to have an abortion.
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When Holly turned to her mother for advice, she was surprised that her mother urged her to have an abortion, rather than a shotgun wedding.
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A 17-year-old immigrant from Central America is fighting for her right to have an abortion despite the opposition of U.S. and state officials.
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Update #1, 10/5/17: Murphy announced he would retire one day after a report suggesting that he urged his mistress to have an abortion.
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The Unsafe Unborn Protection Act does "little or nothing for women's health", the trial judge wrote, while "crippl[ing] women's ability to have an abortion".
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In 1742, A young woman became pregnant with her boyfriend, and it's recorded that the boyfriend coerced his pregnant significant other to have an abortion.
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The young woman (Amanda Leighton) decided to have an abortion in last week's "Sex Ed" and brought her boyfriend's brother Brandon (David Lambert) for support.
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Most women who choose to have an abortion are in their twenties — the same decade in which their careers are just starting to take off.
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Another option is to have an abortion in the first trimester—a period during which no state can interfere with a woman's right to choose.
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For those who had chosen to have an abortion, the physician would "with absolute confidentiality" confirm complete termination of the pregnancy and address any complications.
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Girls who went through such programs were more likely to become pregnant or have an abortion, according to a study published in the journal Lancet.
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Pitino also admitted in 2009 to having sex with the wife of a Louisville equipment manager, and having paid for her to have an abortion.
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Prior to that, women still needed an ultrasound to have an abortion, but the time frame of when it needed to happen was not specified.
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The Post-Gazette obtained a text sent from the woman to Murphy saying the lawmaker had suggested she have an abortion during a pregnancy scare.
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She discovered late in her pregnancy that her baby would have died shortly after birth and she and her husband chose to have an abortion.
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"Past research has largely looked at health differences between women who chose to give birth and those who chose to have an abortion," Ralph explained.
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In the second episode of its premiere season—"Vagina Panic"—Jessa (Jemima Kirk) believes she is pregnant and without hesitation decides to have an abortion.
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Why it matters: Under current Argentine law, women are only allowed to have an abortion in cases of rape or if there's a health risk.
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Superior Court Judge Mark E. Windham ruled in January that jurors can hear about Durst wanting his wife to have an abortion before she disappeared.
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The essential holding of Roe — that the 14th Amendment protects the right to choose to have an abortion prior to fetal viability — was explicitly reaffirmed.
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Murphy suddenly resigned in October amid revelations that he had pressured a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to have an abortion.
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He hit her on the second day of their marriage and continued to beat her when she became pregnant and refused to have an abortion.
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In 2009, he confessed that he had an affair with the wife of the team's equipment manager and paid for her to have an abortion.
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In 1992, the Supreme Court said that officials could not impose "an undue burden" on a woman's constitutional right to decide to have an abortion.
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Superior Court Judge Mark E. Windham ruled last month that jurors can hear about Durst wanting his wife to have an abortion before she disappeared.
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Oswalt: Like if I'm arguing for the right for a woman to have an abortion, there's a demon battering an angel with a hammer somewhere.
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We protect the law of the country, and so if we find a girl or woman attempting to have an abortion, we will arrest her.
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Michael wants her to have an abortion, believing it's immoral to bring a child into a world soon to be made uninhabitable by global warming.
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There, for women who do have an abortion, it is much more likely to be unsafe and lead to both health- and life-threatening conditions.
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The new restrictions in Missouri would make it illegal to have an abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they're pregant.
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But making women learn about them before they decide to have an abortion suggests to a grieving mother-to-be that her choice isn't valid.
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Undue burden is the standard set by the Supreme Court when measuring whether restrictions go too far in limiting women who seek to have an abortion.
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Last year the federal government denied subsidies for summer jobs to groups that did not tick a box endorsing a woman's right to have an abortion.
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Women in Northern Ireland have to travel to other countries—such as England, Scotland, Wales, and now, the Republic of Ireland—to legally have an abortion.
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Justin Humphrey, is pushing a bill that would require a woman to get written permission from her sexual partner if she wants to have an abortion.
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Reeves wrote that the US Supreme Court had "repeatedly held" that women have the right to choose to have an abortion before the fetus is viable.
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The measure would allow a woman to have an abortion, after detection of an embryonic heartbeat, to prevent her death or if she risks serious injury.
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A divorce trial transcript released in 2012 documented that he'd previously had multiple affairs with patients and had pressed one of them to have an abortion.
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This week, Laura, who says she is pregnant, filed a complaint alleging that he'd verbally and physically abused her because she refused to have an abortion.
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"Once a woman has made up her mind about her decision to have an abortion, she should have access to that care as quickly as possible."
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About 1,000 Northern Irish women travel to England each year to have an abortion, while others while others risk prosecution by self-medicating with abortion pills.
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After the ruling, her lawyers asked a judge to allow the girl, who is about 15 weeks pregnant, to have an abortion as soon as Wednesday.
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While 75 percent of abortion patients were poor or low-income, white women are still more likely than black or Hispanic women to have an abortion.
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Nor was I guilted into it; if I got pregnant today, I would have an abortion (even if I have to fly to Canada for it).
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"There's stigma on us if we decide to have an abortion," said Monica Simpson, the executive director of SisterSong, a reproductive justice organization for minority women.
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Ironically and sadly, these efforts undermine programs that help prevent unintended pregnancy and help women avoid altogether the difficult choice of whether to have an abortion.
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One thing you don't do is have an abortion if you're in a stable marriage, and the second thing you don't do is talk about it.
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In an earlier European case, in Slovenia, a Zika-infected mother apparently decided to have an abortion after learning that her fetus showed signs of microcephaly.
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One of my favorite things to say to somebody is, 'I've never met anybody who wanted to have an abortion,' and it makes people go, 'Oh.
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One, a 25-year-old cashier, said she had returned after the 24-hour waiting period mandated by state law and would shortly have an abortion.
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The other is in her first trimester but can no longer have an abortion induced by medication and would require a surgical procedure, Ms. Amiri said.
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It turns out my boyfriend does not ever want children, never mind after just a few months of dating; he wants me to have an abortion.
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"People don't really have any knowledge about abortion and they have zero knowledge about why a woman might [have] an abortion later in pregnancy," she said.
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Florida would join five states -- Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming -- that currently require both parental notification and consent for a minor to have an abortion.
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If we choose to have an abortion, we are cast as villains by anti-abortion campaigns that tap into the trauma of our country's racial history.
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She denied it, but has also said that the decision of whether to have an abortion should be left to the pregnant woman and her doctor.
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DOROTHY MORTMAN, BROOKLYN To the Editor: Renee Bracey Sherman seeks to put a human face on women who make the difficult decision to have an abortion.
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Seven in 54 male Republican voters say they have never talked with someone about the decision to have an abortion or the experience of having one.
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The high court ruled four decades ago that the U.S. Constitution protects the right of a woman to have an abortion until the point of viability.
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According to a 2017 analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, 23.7 percent of women in the United States will have an abortion by the age of 45.
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Hargan, a recent case in which Kavanaugh dissented from a ruling that the Trump administration should permit an illegal immigrant in federal custody to have an abortion.
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Pramila Jayapal detailed her decision to have an abortion years ago, making her the second member of Congress to speak publicly about choosing to get the procedure.
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But lawmakers in Pope Francis' homeland began considering legislation this past week that would allow women to have an abortion in the first 236 weeks of pregnancy.
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One of the women, in her 30s, elected to have an abortion after a 20-week ultrasound revealed that her fetus was suffering from severe brain abnormalities.
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Increasingly, though, the agency is under scrutiny for its treatment of the tens of thousands of immigrant children and teenagers who aren't trying to have an abortion.
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She calls herself at that age a "junkie" in the book and claims she learned she was pregnant with his baby but decided to have an abortion.
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"Her mother forced her to have [an] abortion and they put the fetus in a coffee can and buried it in her backyard," says Pfeiffer, her attorney.
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ACLU lawyers in October successfully filed a federal lawsuit that allowed the teen to see a doctor and have an abortion, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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A universal desire of the pro-choice movement is to see a change in Italian culture, with more respect for a woman's decision to have an abortion.
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And in it the final girl is talking about how she wants to have an abortion, which goes completely against the general characteristics of a horror film.
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One measure outlawed abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and mandated that women be shown ultrasound images and fetal heartbeat audio before they can have an abortion.
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This law would make abortions illegal in the country—with women who have an abortion and doctors facilitating the procedure facing up to five years in prison.
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In statehouses around the country, politicians have passed more than 300 restrictions that stand in the way of a woman who has decided to have an abortion.
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By contrast, a 2016 study by the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health found that Latinos are "largely supportive" of women's legal ability to have an abortion.
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Wade in 1973, cannot impede a woman's right to decide to have an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb, usually at around 24 weeks.
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But last month, a Kaiser poll found a clear majority of Americans, 28500 percent, want judges to uphold a woman's right to choose to have an abortion.
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"As sad as I was about not having a biological child of my own, I did not regret my decision to have an abortion," she told me.
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After an especially rough moment in Hannah's pregnancy, it was hard not to wonder if the soon-to-be single mom has decided to have an abortion.
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The balance of the court is at stake — and with Kavanaugh's nomination, our constitutional right to have an abortion in this country is tipping away from us.
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Schumer, for example, wrote New York Times op-ed focused on Monday that urged people to call their senators to preserve the right to have an abortion.
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Nearly 400 bills to restrict abortion access were introduced last year on the state level, and most rural counties in the US don't have an abortion clinic.
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For as long as I've been aware of the consequences of sex, I've known that if I got pregnant, I'd have an abortion by any means necessary.
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Wade, which upholds a woman's right to have an abortion nationwide, and a 1981 Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that also upheld the right, citing the Roe decision.
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Late Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the teenager must be allowed to have an abortion, but it gave the federal government until Oct.
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" — first implying that he pressured her to have an abortion, then just coming out and saying it: "Because I loved him so much, I had an abortion.
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But nearly one-third of American women are estimated to have an abortion by 45, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
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It should also support those women, half of whom live in poverty, who have an abortion for financial reasons, and many of whom would prefer not to.
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In a concurring opinion, four judges said they also would have struck down the law as an unconstitutional burden on a woman's right to have an abortion.
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Eighty-four percent of participants had either positive emotions about their decision to have an abortion after five years, or no feelings about their decision at all.
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Shortly after he was elected, Mr. Trump said women might have to cross state lines to have an abortion because his goal was to see Roe v.
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Women in countries most affected by the ban were 2.6 times more likely to have an abortion, compared with those in countries not affected by the policy.
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It begins with two endings: Nadia's mother has just committed suicide and, shortly after, she becomes pregnant by the pastor's son and decides to have an abortion.
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" In 2009, he argued that women using taxpayer-subsidized contraception should have to "promise not to have an abortion if the contraception fails, which it often does.
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The Supreme Court decided yesterday in the Whole Woman's Health case that two provisions in a Texas state law unduly burdened a woman's choice to have an abortion.
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Maryland's largest city argued that its 2009 law was meant to address deceptive advertising and reduce the potential health risks from waiting too long to have an abortion.
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"This case implicates the right of a woman to choose to have an abortion before viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state," Ginsburg wrote.
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"This case implicates the right of a woman to choose to have an abortion before viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state," she wrote.
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"This case implicates the right of a woman to choose to have an abortion before viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state," she said.
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" In an interview with ESPN, she explained why she chose to write about her decision to have an abortion: "The name of the book is called 'Chasing Grace.
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In another case, the ACLU said, Lloyd traveled from Washington, DC, to meet personally with a young woman to try to convince her not to have an abortion.
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One year later, the Court affirmed the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in the landmark Roe v.
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Since CPCs are founded by faith-based, anti-choice organizations, they're not too happy about being forced to offer pregnant people information on how to have an abortion.
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The bottom line is, that twice in my life, we were counseled to have an abortion, one with our son Gabriel and one with our little girl Bella.
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UPDATE October 24th 20143:30 GMT: The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the young woman must be allowed to have an abortion.
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In 2006, Black women in America were nearly five times more likely than white women to have an abortion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Is it possible one or two women may have an abortion at 24 or 25 weeks in these states and it not be for the health of mother?
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She chooses to have an abortion, and the show does more than leave Lola at the steps of a clinic — it takes the audience inside the procedure room.
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During an appearance on The View, the young pundit came under fire for suggesting that the government should not interfere with a woman's right to have an abortion.
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D. stopped playing games and started playing god" Ali made the decision to have an abortion because she "wants to be in control, and wants her life back.
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Lawmakers in Tennessee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would make it illegal for most women in the state to have an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
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Wade but reduce some of the restrictions, while 21 percent said they want to expand the ruling to establish the right to have an abortion under any circumstance.
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In at least one case, a woman was forced to have an abortion in order to make her available for sex, and others were pressured to do so.
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The couple was happy for a number of years, friends say, but Ms. Durst grew unhappy after Mr. Durst pushed her to have an abortion and became controlling.
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Moreover, nearly one in four women will have an abortion by age 45, and most of those women will have had people — family, partners, friends — who helped them.
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They say that about one in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime, and many people don't realize that abortion is a safe, routine medical procedure.
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Tim Murphy (R-PA), who resigned in October amid revelations that he had pressured a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to have an abortion.
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But some doctors say that the decision to have an abortion is one that ought to be made among a woman, her family and her health care provider.
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Separately, a 10-year-old Indian girl who was raped by an uncle, and then lost her legal battle to have an abortion, gave birth to a girl.
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My dad had open-heart surgery about two months ago, and he didn't have to go through as much red tape as I did to have an abortion.
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Because Medicaid coverage of abortion is prohibited, approximately one in four low-income women who would otherwise have an abortion instead give birth when this coverage is unavailable.
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In Congress, he opposed a law that would protect women in Washington, D.C., from employment discrimination based on their decision to use birth control or have an abortion.
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One in four women will have an abortion by the time they're 45, which means that very likely, you know or love someone who has had an abortion.
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According to the Woman's Right to Know Act, which passed in 2011, patients must receive state-mandated information, then wait 72 hours before they can have an abortion.
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A 1992 precedent requires the court to strike down any law if it finds that it imposes an "undue burden" on a woman's right to have an abortion.
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DeCrescenzo says she was forced to have an abortion against her will, spending the following years in the Sea Org's hardcore prison program, the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF).
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Someone's choice about whether or not to have an abortion doesn't potentially affect the health of the people they interact with, while choosing not to get vaccinated does.
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True respect for pregnant women would demand the provision of accurate and comprehensive information whether they planned to go to term, have an abortion or experience a pregnancy loss.
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Taken together, whatever you may think about the accuracy of these rulings, Roe and Heller-McDonald cement the individual's right both to have an abortion and own a gun.
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We also elected as vice president the current governor of Indiana, a state where Purvi Patel was arrested, tried, and convicted of feticide for attempting to have an abortion.
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Another option is to travel to Mexico City and have an abortion free of charge in any public health clinic — but only during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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Do your part by signing NARAL's petition to have an abortion question asked at the debate here, and check out Refinery29's full coverage of the debate on Sunday.
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Ms Schreck drove for eight hours to have an abortion at a feminist health collective in Oregon, and went on to have the career her mother once dreamed of.
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Sara Keays said that Mr. Parkinson had promised to leave his wife and marry her and had pressured her to have an abortion, but that she had refused. Mrs.
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Maryland's largest city had argued that its 2009 law was meant to address deceptive advertising and reduce the potential health risks from waiting too long to have an abortion.
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Women are more than half the population, and one in three of us will have an abortion in her lifetime, according to a 2011 study from the Guttmacher Institute.
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"This bill places a unreasonable restriction on the constitutional right of a woman to make an informed decision about whether or not to have an abortion," Margaret Johnson said.
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A young woman opened up about her decision to have an abortion and before launching into that narrative, Dunham herself said she wished she had an abortion, too. Yikes.
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It completely takes away the freedom of women to choose whether or not to have an abortion--even if a woman/girl is a victim of rape or incest.
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In the same September 2016 speech, she outlined the three choices people have: parent the child, give it up for adoption, or have an abortion (starting at 38:00).
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" He stressed an issue before the panel was whether the government could "expeditiously transfer Jane Doe to an immigration sponsor before she makes the decision to have an abortion.
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El Salvador's strict abortion laws In the small, socially conservative Central American country, women who have an abortion, or simply miscarry, can face up to 50 years in prison.
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We just saw last week in Ohio, a new rule passed [so] that it's illegal to have an abortion once the fetus has a heartbeat, which is six weeks.
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In "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda," Miranda initially decides to have an abortion, but ultimately changes her mind—a decision that is more realistic (her biological clock is ticking) than sentimental.
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" More than half of women who have an abortion are mothers, he adds: "They know what goes into having a child and having the resources to raise that child.
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When she became pregnant, she was sent to McChord Air Force Base, in Tacoma, Washington, to have an abortion—the Air Force's requirement for servicewomen to keep their jobs.
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One in three women will have an abortion in the U.K. for many, many individual reasons, and we shouldn't undermine free, safe, legal abortion based on one difficult case.
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The New York bill also allows a woman to have an abortion after 24 weeks when her health or life is in danger, or the fetus is not viable.
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Another, Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania Republican, voted for the bill just hours after news broke that he was accused of pressuring his mistress to — get this — have an abortion.
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Virginia is the most restrictive state in the U.S. for minors under 18, who must take 8 steps to have an abortion by obtaining parental notification and parental consent.
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In a concurring opinion, four of the judges said they also would have struck down the law as an unconstitutional burden on a woman's right to have an abortion.
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He thinks women should always have the right to choose when to have an abortion, is pro-Obamacare, and wants the federal minimum wage to be $12 an hour.
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Those of us who support a woman's right to decide to have an abortion and make intimate decisions about sex, sexuality, and reproduction must also think and act strategically.
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Tim Murphy, who resigned in October after reports surfaced alleging that the anti-abortion rights Republican urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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Notably, it points out that in the Caribbean and Latin America, it is legal in only five countries total to have an abortion in the case of fetal impairment.
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While the majority of women who had abortions in 2012 were unmarried -- 85% -- the CDC's reporting shows most women who have an abortion have already had at least one child.
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In an episode earlier this month, Xo, Jane's mom on Jane the Virgin, also decides to have an abortion, and it is acknowledged in a similarly matter-of-fact way.
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I voted against partial birth abortion -- to limit it -- and I vote for no restrictions on a woman's right to be able to have an abortion under Roe v. Wade.
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"If I wasn't able to have an abortion, that would be the end of my life," said Blakely, who's now 25 and working as a travel specialist in Birmingham, Alabama.
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It makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, and it requires a mother's life be in imminent danger before she can have an abortion later in a pregnancy.
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While the majority of women who had abortions in 2 were unmarried -- 85% -- the CDC's reporting shows most women who have an abortion have already had at least one child.
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He used to consider himself pro-choice and he allegedly suggested to his ex wife Marla Maples to have an abortion when she found herself pregnant with their daughter Tiffany.
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She was at the heart of a legal fight over how much control Trump administration officials could have over pregnant, undocumented teens in custody who wished to have an abortion.
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In 2012, Congress approved sentences of up to three years for women who have an abortion and between four and 20153 years for anyone who helps someone get the procedure.
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Holliday also talked about her decision to have an abortion after the birth of her son Bowie, 3, her frustrations with cancel culture and the criticism she gets for exercising.
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Foley also told VICE News that women who come to the clinics discuss three options with counselors: parent the child, put the child up for adoption, or have an abortion.
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"Most women who have an abortion do so because they did not intend to become pregnant in the first place," the report's co-author Susheela Singh said in a statement.
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She and her fiancé chose to have an abortion because, while they wanted to become parents, doing so before marriage would mean they'd both be disowned by their respective families.
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HOUSTON — A pregnant undocumented teenager in federal custody whose attempt to have an abortion set off a monthlong legal battle with the Trump administration terminated her pregnancy on Wednesday morning.
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The contested seat was left open after Representative Tim Murphy, an anti-abortion Republican, was forced to resign when a former lover said he pressed her to have an abortion.
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WASHINGTON — When Representative Tim Murphy was accused of pressing his mistress to have an abortion, the Pennsylvania Republican apparently crossed a line that could not be tolerated in his party.
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Several weeks ago, a woman contacted the Washington Post alleging Alabama Republican candidate Roy Moore impregnated her and forced her to have an abortion when she was 15, in 1992.
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Challenges to state laws based on the reasons a woman chooses to have an abortion, as opposed to the length of her pregnancy, are slowly trickling up through the courts.
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On the debate stage, Warren recounted the story — but ended it with a twist: She referenced an allegation that Bloomberg once told one of his employees to have an abortion.
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On March 2, the court will consider a tough new abortion law in Texas that women's health providers say infringes upon the constitutional right of women to have an abortion.
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"This means fewer people became pregnant, not that individuals chose or were made to give birth rather than have an abortion," said Rachel Jones, a principal research scientist at Guttmacher.
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Instead of focusing on Democrat's support for women who have decided to have an abortion, what would it look like if the political pundits' critical gaze was directed at Republicans?
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Just four out of 92 counties in Indiana have an abortion clinic, meaning a majority of women seeking abortions must travel long distances, on multiple occasions, to make their appointments.
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While we've come a long way in normalizing the conversation, that doesn't change the fact that so many women still feel the need to caveat their choice to have an abortion.
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The exchange between the two came as part of a hearing Philipps joined as a witness after speaking out about her decision to have an abortion at age 15 in Arizona.
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During Friday's episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Paula decides she doesn't want anything to get in the way of her going to law school, so she chooses to have an abortion.
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The implication here is that a nerve-wracking and rewarding experience for some is compounded when people are trolling both their choice to have an abortion and also their marginalized identity.
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" He stressed, however, that a question before the panel was whether the government could "expeditiously transfer Jane Doe to an immigration sponsor before she makes the decision to have an abortion.
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According to Kimmell, Trump's playbook erases the often complicated medical reasons to terminate a pregnancy and instead paints women's choice to have an abortion at that point as cruel and inhumane.
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As for James, her expression of resigned despair as Deb finds out that she can neither afford to give birth, nor have an abortion, without insurance, is seared into my brain.
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The woman, a retired porn star, has what she says are text messages between her and Drake, which purport to say the following: Drake: I want you to have an abortion.
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Finally, the right to have an abortion implies a right not to be a genetic parent — for there to be no child that comes into being that is her genetic offspring.
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After a monthlong legal battle with the current administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday afternoon that Jane Doe, as she was identified, should be allowed to have an abortion.
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Róisín Ingle, an editor with the Irish Times and a producer of the paper's "The Women's Podcast," last year wrote of her experience of traveling to Britain to have an abortion.
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It's actually an incredibly dark and disturbing tale: Not only did she convince her father's mistress to have an abortion, but, it seems, she also had sex with her own mother.
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Wade affirms women's right to have an abortion, the 1973 ruling allows states to restrict or ban termination after fetal viability, which is generally accepted to be around 24 weeks LMP.
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In 2009, Pitino was part of a well-publicized extortion battle with a woman he admitted to having sex with in 2003, who claimed he paid her to have an abortion.
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A woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion was approved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 but it remains a divisive issue in the United States.
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In October 2017, one undocumented immigrant teenager held in an Office of Refugee Resettlement–operated facility in Texas sued the Trump administration over its refusal to let her have an abortion.
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Around Valentine's Day, an Oklahoma legislator introduced a bill that requires women get a man's approval to have an abortion (you may recall; he romantically said you are but a "host").
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The bill in question wouldn't have changed the number of weeks that a woman can have an abortion, only the number of doctors who need to sign off on the procedure.
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The legislation makes it illegal to have an abortion after a heartbeat has been detected in the womb — or about six weeks, which is before many women realize they are pregnant.
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When a woman decides to have an abortion, she's understanding that she needs to have all of the resources necessary to do the parenting job that she is obligated to do.
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She was a single mom, working mom of three, and we had to tell her, 'You have to travel 350 miles to the Dallas-Forth Worth area to have an abortion.
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In 2013 he attempted to make abortion illegal and although we protested and stopped the law from being changed, in effect it's still very difficult to have an abortion in Turkey.
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To the Editor: Re "The Nightmare Ahead in Post-Roe America," by Michelle Goldberg (column, May 19): Deciding whether or not to have an abortion is a horrible, gut-wrenching decision.
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Britain: Three days after a court ordered a developmentally disabled woman to have an abortion against her and her mother's wishes, an appeals court overturned the decision, the mother's lawyer said.
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Many are affiliated with crisis pregnancy centers, which have been accused of posing as abortion clinics in order to provide misinformation and pressure women into choosing not to have an abortion.
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NEW DELHI — A 10-year-old Indian girl who was raped by an uncle, and then lost her legal battle to have an abortion, gave birth on Thursday to a girl.
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If the judge concludes that she's not mature enough to have an abortion, that means that she is mature enough to have a child, or, in any case, will have one.
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Warren again took him to task for comments he reportedly made about female employees decades ago, including allegedly telling a pregnant employee to have an abortion — a claim Bloomberg vehemently denies.
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She also surfaced the allegation that the former mayor asked a pregnant female employee to have an abortion, and laid into Bloomberg for donating large sums to Republican candidates for office.
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But because of the confusion surrounding the six-week bill, Cassidy—with good reason—was afraid this meant she wouldn't be able to have an abortion at all if she waited.
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In early October, the Post-Gazette reported that Murphy, who was having an affair with Edwards, sent her a text message urging her to have an abortion amid a pregnancy scare.
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One recent study found that, on average, abortion patients were as or more sure of their decision to have an abortion than people facing other medical procedures, such as knee surgery.
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"Each paper looked like a flight ticket," said Ms. Teggart, to note the fact that women living in Northern Ireland have to fly to England in order to have an abortion.
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In analyzing these requirements, the court asked whether they placed an "undue burden" on the woman's right to have an abortion -- a standard derived from the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, an anti-choice lawmaker who allegedly urged the woman he had an affair with to have an abortion when he thought she was pregnant, is resigning from Congress.
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With help from her sister and financial support from her father, the now-23-year-old from Chicago, IL was able to get care and have an abortion under her own terms.
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"When I told my [first] doctor I wanted to have an abortion, he refused despite the obvious medical reason," Magnanti says, recalling the days leading up to her traumatic stay in hospital.
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Unfortunately, many politicians still fail to recognize how issues such as access to birth control, the right to choose to have an abortion and equal pay connect to economic prosperity for women.
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Casey, the Supreme Court ruled that a spousal notification requirement — where a woman wanting to have an abortion would have to give prior notice to her husband — violated the undue burden standard.
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Many of the women I've spoken with are mothers already, and they chose to have an abortion because they just want to provide the best lives for the children they already have.
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Eventually he drove her to a hospital with the aim of making her have an abortion, and flew into a rage when she refused the surgery, repeatedly punching her in the stomach.
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"One of the things we wanted to do was to respond to the fact that in network TV, no matter how strong you are, you cannot have an abortion," Ms. Penley said.
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The lawmaker who held the seat — a married man and an opponent of abortion — fled Congress after his mistress let it be known that he had pressed her to have an abortion.
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Three days after a British court ordered a developmentally disabled woman to have an abortion against her and her mother's wishes, an appeals court overturned that decision, the mother's lawyer said Monday.
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When Representative Tim Murphy was pushed out of the House last year after the revelation that he encouraged a mistress to have an abortion, Republican leaders gave scant thought to his successor.
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Alabama and West Virginia voters passed measures that cease to recognize and protect a woman's right to have an abortion, while Oregonians rejected a measure to ban public funding for the procedure.
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Thanks to a Texas law requiring women to undergo counseling 24 hours before their abortion, Doe must receive counseling Thursday if she wants to have an abortion in a nearby clinic Friday.
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In another extensively covered case, a 10-year-old girl who was raped by a relative gave birth last year, after India's Supreme Court refused to allow her to have an abortion.
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Cassidy, whose last name has been withheld to protect her privacy, needed to have an abortion in Ohio earlier this year, after the state's six-week ban had been signed into law.
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In Gilles' defamation lawsuit, she calls BS on Mel B's claims that she had an affair with Belafonte, that he got her pregnant and that he convinced her to have an abortion.
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McCorvey was 21998, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time in 21970 when she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life.
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"No woman plans to have an abortion and certainly no woman can plan to be raped, no woman can plan to be attacked by someone she knows in her own family," Garcia said.
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Trejo, who was a high school football player, told investigators he'd had an argument with Rouhselang about her pregnancy, and was under the impression she was too far along to have an abortion.
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Kavanaugh, along with Judges Karen Henderson and Patricia Millett, spent most of Friday's hearing trying to understand the government's logic in denying Doe the ability to leave the shelter to have an abortion.
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But for Blaire*, who chose to have an abortion at Preterm two years ago after finding out she was pregnant while recovering from bariatric surgery, politics should have little to do with it.
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In fact, 1 in 3 American women will have an abortion in her lifetime, and most of us know and love someone who has had an abortion, whether we know it or not.
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Pennsylvania Representative Tim Murphy, a cosponsor of the 53-week abortion ban passed in the House today, allegedly urged his mistress to have an abortion and privately denounced his stated anti-choice views.
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The DC Circuit reheard the case en banc (that is, as a whole court, not just a panel) and overturned the panel's decision, enabling the girl to have an abortion the next morning.
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Wade affirmed women's right to have an abortion nationwide, but the ruling allows states to restrict or ban termination after fetal viability, which is generally accepted to be around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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If a woman makes the choice to have an abortion, and is told that she can't—she's past the clinic's cutoff gestational date—it seems intuitive that that would be a stressful situation.
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Indeed, the right to have an abortion and the right to live openly and authentically as LGBTQ people, free from discrimination, are both fundamentally based on the right to control our own bodies.
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Nevertheless, the foreign ministry activated Italy&aposs embassy in Islamabad after Verona authorities heard from Farah&aposs friends that she had been tricked into going home and was forced to have an abortion.
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The campaign aims to fight the stigma surrounding abortion, and to get society to come to terms with the fact that about one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime.
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The incumbent, Tim Murphy, a conservative anti-abortion Republican, had a lock on re-election until The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported last year that he had urged his mistress to have an abortion.
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Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District voted on who would replace Tim Murphy, a Republican who resigned last year after reports he encouraged a woman with whom he had an affair to have an abortion.
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Gynecologist Dr. Sheila Newman told The Independent that just like with using parsley for period induction, there&aposs no proof that the herb is an effective or safe way to have an abortion.
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Once you have settled on that empirical question, given this moral background, then I think you can leave it to human spontaneity — to have children or not, to have an abortion or not.
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That echoes complaints about Representative Tim Murphy, Republican of Pennsylvania and a fierce social conservative who was drummed out of office this year after revelations that he suggested his mistress have an abortion.
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Many were surprised to learn that about one in 4=four women will have an abortion in their lifetime (if current rates continue) — the men had guessed rates as low as 1 percent.
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Hollywood has long been reluctant to offer realistic depictions of what it's like to end a pregnancy, despite the fact that roughly 1 in 3 American women will have an abortion before age 45.
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An extra-sensitive Asher, who just wants everyone to show any emotion, damnit, repeatedly punches Connor after he yells at Laurel to have an abortion and thus save the world from Wes' evil spawn.
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Jouvet compares her situation—fighting for the right to have a baby—to the similar legal restraints faced by French women before her, particularly those who fought for the right to have an abortion.
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For fathers who may have approved of, paid for, or pressured women to have an abortion, the Gospel points them to another father whose own child, a son, was killed and who offers forgiveness.
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More Democrats selected supporting a woman's right to have an abortion as a must-have — 79 percent of in-person Iowa caucus-goers and 80 percent of virtual caucus-goers — than any other issue.
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The most common reason women said they wanted to have an abortion was because they felt they were not able to have a child or an additional child at this point in their life.
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A flood of early-abortion laws in conservative states, some tantamount to total bans, have prompted other, socially liberal, states to make it easier to have an abortion at the other end of pregnancy.
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Though abortion rates have declined in recent years, the procedure is still common: Research has found that about one in four women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the age of 45.
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The project will demand social protection and assistance for women who opt not to have an abortion, Diniz said, considering that the Zika epidemic highlights the state's negligence in controlling the spread of mosquitos.
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"This case implicates 'the right of a woman to choose to have an abortion before viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state,' so heightened review is in order," she wrote.
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Evans discussed Rogers in her book, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom, where she claimed she learned she was pregnant with his baby but decided to have an abortion.
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Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), who has been an anti-abortion advocate, may have suggested that a woman he had an extra-marital affair with have an abortion, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Wade, a precedent that holds that the Constitution affords every person the individual liberty to make decisions about their body and their relationships, including the right to access contraception and to have an abortion.
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Pro killing babies!" she looked at me and said, "No one is pro-abortion, they are pro-choice, meaning that they support women having an option on whether or not they have an abortion.
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On an episode of the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) reveals to her fellow surgical intern Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) that she is pregnant and has decided to have an abortion.
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She said there was "irony" that some would support the "choice" for a pregnant person to have an abortion but not school choice between public schools, charter schools or other educational options for students.
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Slightly more than half of women who have an abortion say they pay for it themselves, according to the most recent data from Guttmacher — including about 60 percent of women who have private insurance.
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In addition to enshrining the right to have an abortion, Illinois also requires health insurers to cover the procedure and expands the number of providers by allowing certain nurses and physician assistants to perform abortions.
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We are seeing #ShoutYourAbortion gain traction on Twitter, we are seeing the 1 in 3 campaign (because one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetimes) come to life as an Abortion Speakout.
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Steve Bullock, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, also weighed in on the issue Sunday, saying on the same program that the decision on whether or not to have an abortion should be left to women.
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About the race: Tim Murphy, the Republican who held the seat for 15 years, resigned in October after it emerged he had urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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The right to have an abortion, which exists in name only in some areas of the country, could soon be even further whittled away — and the justices could do so without overturning Roe v. Wade.
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For now, many Missouri women looking to have an abortion would most likely travel to clinics in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa — in fact, many women in the state are already doing exactly that.
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Unwilling to risk alienating a major trading partner, Canada has agreed to shore up "the Pink Wall" of its southern border, and arrest and extradite women trying to enter the country to have an abortion.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The partner of Australia's former deputy prime minister has said that she was pressured by members of the conservative National Party to have an abortion after she became pregnant during their extramarital affair.
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"It's been historically true that the courts have been respected," Parenteau said, even with enormously and still hotly debated and litigated decisions like Roe v Wade, which protected a person's right to have an abortion.
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The overwhelming majority of women surveyed -- 84% -- had positive emotions or no emotions whatsoever about their abortion decision, even if they hadn't felt that way when they were making the decision to have an abortion.
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It's a heavily Republican district that Trump won by 20 points -- but Murphy resigned in disgrace amid allegations that he had an extramarital affair with a woman who he then encouraged to have an abortion.
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"It is in fact likely that the person who is committing the crime of incest has influenced and perhaps even forces the young woman to go have an abortion to cover up the crime," he said.
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ORR later told the Garzas that Doe no longer wanted an abortion, and gave them two handwritten notes by Doe that showed she had indeed "changed [her] decision to have an abortion," according to the ruling.
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To date, this model allows people seeking abortion to conduct a video or phone consultation with a remote healthcare provider from either a local community clinic that does not have an abortion provider or from home.
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As the Times notes, a 2014 poll commissioned by Univision found that 73% of Catholics in Latin America supported a women's right to have an abortion in some or all cases and 91% supported using contraception.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for a pregnant immigrant teenager, who successfully fought a legal battle to have an abortion, misled the Justice Department over the timing of the procedure, the government alleged in a court filing Friday.
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The trial found that the girls who participated in the program were more likely both to experience a birth and to have an abortion before the age of twenty than those who hadn't had the intervention.
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Georgia law previously allowed women to have an abortion in the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy, but under the new measure, doctors will be barred from performing the procedure after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
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The women rights groups CLADEM and local rights group ANDHES had filed a petition to a judge in Tucuman calling on the state to respect the rights and wishes of the girl to have an abortion.
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"[Office of Refugee Resettlement] Director Scott Lloyd has personally contacted one or more unaccompanied immigrant minors who was [sic] pregnant and seeking abortion, and discussed with them their decision to have an abortion," the complaint reads.
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Women were forcibly fitted with intrauterine devices, and Ruqiye Perhat, a 31-year-old Uighur student of Islamic studies, is one of several women who reported being forced to have an abortion while in the camps.
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But he has faced an intensifying backlash over reports from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he encouraged the woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to have an abortion during an unfounded pregnancy scare.
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"In practice this will mean that, in future, women who seek an abortion after the twelfth week of pregnancy will as much as before have the right to have an abortion," she told parliament on Wednesday.
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"I spent three days on the phone before I found both a doctor willing to do it and a clinic which had the medicine," said one woman who did manage to have an abortion this month.
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In one speech, she compared abortion rights to slavery and suggested that the left was hypocritical in supporting a mother's right to choose to have an abortion but not to choose a school for her child.
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COLUMBIA, Missouri — In the Columbia Public Library, just past a room where a Bible study was wrapping up, a group of people gathered in a conference room to learn how to have an abortion at home.
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" The law, Kentucky said, "does nothing more than require that women who are considering an abortion be provided with information that is truthful, non-misleading and relevant to their decision of whether to have an abortion.
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I ended up suffering terribly throughout my pregnancy, whether with extreme insomnia, acute anxiety or the compelling urge to have an abortion, just to escape the endless pain that, again, no one seemed able to diagnose.
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In a March 17 appearance on the ABC show "The View," Ms. Lahren, 24, told the hosts that she believed in limited government in all aspects and that she supported the right to have an abortion.
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The rights to have an abortion, to send your children to private school, to exclude others from your property or to hire your own criminal defense lawyer are all more fully enjoyed by people with resources.
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Ryan Magers says he begged his ex-girlfriend not to have an abortion and that the aim of his lawsuit is to "give a voice" to other men who want a say in a woman's reproductive choices.
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And in Texas, lawmakers proposed a bill that would make it possible for women who have an abortion and doctors who treat them to be charged with homicide, which in Texas is punishable by the death penalty.
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The 20043-2 ruling affirmed the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion in the United States under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and sparked a political debate that remains charged to this day.
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In Friday's opinion, the judges concluded that the Trump administration's policy amounted to a complete ban that violated US Supreme Court precedent by imposing an "undue burden" on a woman's right to choose to have an abortion.
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The most important lesson: If things go wrong when they try to have an abortion at home, and a trip to the hospital is inevitable, make sure to clean out the pills from inside the vaginal canal.
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But the reasons why women seek the procedure at that stage of a pregnancy can be complex and most medical professionals say politicians shouldn't have a say on whether women should have an abortion at that point.
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Judge Chutkan said that the administration was in essence giving the teen two options: Voluntarily go back to the country she fled and have an abortion there, or be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
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In 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals cited her testimony when it upheld a South Dakota law that required physicians to tell patients they may be at greater risk of suicide if they have an abortion.
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Wade decision that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, Planned Parenthood has been at the center of litigation around the issue.
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Berrached said she decided to portray the issue of late-term abortions when she learned that more than 90 percent of women have an abortion after the third month of pregnancy if their child has an abnormality.
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She had two abortions while married to Sinatra While the two traveled to Nairobi for Gardner's role in Mogambo, Gardner became pregnant with Sinatra's child and chose to have an abortion after Sinatra left, without telling him.
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Wade Fast Facts In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion, holding that it fell within a woman's right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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More than forty years ago, the writers and I on our TV show "Maude" did something which apparently no one had done before on television: We showed our main character making the decision to have an abortion.
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"The attorney said we need a woman who is pregnant who would like to have an abortion and a quote-unquote courageous doctor who'd be willing to do the abortion," said Dr. Beecham, then a medical resident.
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Cover image: Planned Parenthood Federation of America and coalition partners protested (that's Georgeanne Usova of the ACLU at left) together outside the Department of Health and Human Services in support of Jane Doe to have an abortion.
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While calling out former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's alleged sexist comments to a former employee encouraging her to have an abortion or risk losing her job, Warren shared with the debate crowd her own story.
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Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), who has announced his resignation following the revelation that he encouraged a woman to have an abortion, reportedly perpetuated a "culture of intimidation" in his office that caused many staffers to quit.
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One of the biggest opponents of the bill making the minimum age for marriage 18 are anti-choice groups, who believe that if a girl cannot get married, she will be more likely to have an abortion.
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This film expands our understanding of who makes the decision to have an abortion and underscores that access to health care is an issue of basic justice, which must be a human right, available to us all.
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And the National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) found that more than 28503 percent of voters believe that once a woman has decided to have an abortion, her experience should be safe, supportive, respectful, and without pressure.
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"The state has an interest in ensuring that every pregnant person in California who wants to have an abortion can obtain access to that care as easily and as early in pregnancy as possible," the bill states.
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Its insights and observations were drawn from literature, psychology and conversations with students at Harvard, where Dr. Gilligan was then an assistant professor and researcher, and interviews of women who were considering whether to have an abortion.
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TMZ broke the story back in May, 2017 -- Brussaux claimed to have text messages between her and Drizzy supporting the claim he got her pregnant -- the alleged convo read ... Drake: I want you to have an abortion.
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This incident gave the repeal campaign a renewed push and as the campaign to change the law gathered pace, more women who have been forced out of the country to have an abortion are telling their stories.
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"I support people who would never want to have an abortion — but that's their choice," said Rosemarie Day of Somerville, Massachusetts, who came to the march with her 17-year-old daughter and her 80-year-old mother.
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Another is Rick Saccone, the Pennsylvania Republican congressional candidate running in a special election to replace Tim Murphy, who resigned following allegations of an extramarital affair and asking a woman he was involved with to have an abortion.
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" But later in the poll, 49% of Republicans agreed or strongly agreed with this statement: "I do not believe the government should prevent a woman from making her own decision about whether or not to have an abortion.
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As Buttigieg emphasized to Wallace, however, not only is the proportion of women getting an abortion in the third trimester very small, the decision to have an abortion — at any point in pregnancy — should be a woman's choice.
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The rule was issued in hopes of increasing the population and mandated that a woman under the age of 45 couldn't have an abortion unless she had given birth to five children and her life was at stake.
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In a feat of absurdity second only to Joseph Heller's infamous Catch-22, if a woman has already decided to have an abortion and asks for a referral, a health-care provider would not be allowed to respond.
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This means the Senate must only confirm a justice who states that the Constitution protects the right of all people to make personal decisions about their bodies -- including the right to use contraception and to have an abortion.
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Jane is now being faced with a choice between returning to the Central American country she fled in order to have an abortion, or being forced to give birth by the country she hoped would be a refuge.
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" She also spoke openly about her battle with drug addiction, confessing she started using cocaine at 16, and revealed she had considered getting an abortion when pregnant with her son, explaining, "I was going to have an abortion.
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According to a new study, girls who participated in programs that used them were more likely to become pregnant or have an abortion than those who didn't — possibly because they enjoyed taking care of the "babies" so much.
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If that bill were to be enacted, a woman hoping to have an abortion in Missouri would have to travel to the state's lone abortion clinic for state-mandated counseling — during which she would be discouraged from terminating.
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He recently dissented in an appeals court decision that allowed an undocumented pregnant teen to get an abortion, but his dissent did not go so far as to say choosing to have an abortion is unconstitutional, according to Politico.
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An October court case deciding whether an undocumented teenager in US custody should be allowed to have an abortion could have implications for the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
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The ACLU is also seeking a court order barring the federal government from forcing the teens to tell their parents or sponsors about their pregnancies and from retaliating against the two teens for their decision to have an abortion.
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"It is terrifying to minors who seek a bypass that the decision about whether she can have an abortion — one that will literally change the course of her life — is in the hands of a stranger," the lawsuit states.
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Using data from its 2008 survey, Guttmacher estimated that one in three women have an abortion by age 45, and that 61% of women having abortions already had at least one child, with 34% having two or more children.
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"I think that there's a vocal minority, but the fact remains that nearly 1 in 4 American women will have an abortion in their lifetime," says Banks, who hosted the Center's first Los Angeles fundraising banquet on Wednesday night.
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"This is the first time we've ever seen a Latina speak openly about her decision to have an abortion on primetime network television," Caren Spruch, director of arts and entertainment engagement at Planned Parenthood, said in a press release.
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Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), a vocal opponent of abortion rights, submitted his resignation from Congress on Thursday, after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published text messages in which a woman said he had asked her to have an abortion.
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With Bans Off My Body, Planned Parenthood is reminding anti-choice lawmakers that nearly one in four women will have an abortion — a safe, legal procedure — in her lifetime, and 77% of Americans are committed to preserving Roe v.
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Since pretty much everyone alive knows someone who has had or will someday have an abortion, a weekend spent learning to help them seems like a worthwhile investment even for someone who doesn't plan to become a regular volunteer.
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Baird, from Ohio in which a federal judge ruled that traveling to another city, including one outside of a woman's home state, in order to have an abortion does not infringe on a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
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Local Pittsburgh CNN affiliate KDKA first reported the embattled lawmaker would retire after his term, after reports surfaced on Tuesday alleging that the anti-abortion Republican urged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion.
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" The Reproductive Health Act, which is effective immediately, protects the "fundamental rights of individuals to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health," including to continue a "pregnancy and give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.
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"You have individuals who are in villages and are glad to be pregnant, so that they can have an abortion because there's a free trip to Anchorage involved," Eastman told the outlet, which published the comments on May 3.
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When a young woman proposed a video about reducing the stigma against women who have an abortion, he questioned whether that stigma would preclude women from sharing the video on Facebook, where Attn: has more than three million fans.
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If it does, do you think it will involve the Pennsylvania district where Republican Tim Murphy, a strong anti-abortion conservative, had to resign after he got caught urging his lover to have an abortion if she got pregnant?
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The first season, with seven episodes that are each less than five minutes, confronts abortion from the perspective of the clinic's doctors, receptionists, counselors, patients and protesters, and explores the many circumstances behind the choice to have an abortion.
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Mary is the religious one in the couple, but she asks Toller if he'd meet with Michael, who wants her to have an abortion rather than bring a child into a world where he sees only impending environmental apocalypse.
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The special election to replace eight-term Republican Tim Murphy, who resigned in October after he was reported to have urged his mistress to have an abortion, will be the fifth competitive special House election since Trump took office.
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The first, House Bill 2, now requires a physician or technician to perform an ultrasound, describe and display the ultrasound images to the mother, and provide audio of the fetal heartbeat to the mother before she may have an abortion.
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The state now requires that the physician or technician conducting the abortion perform an ultrasound, describe and display the ultrasound images to the mother, and provide audio of the fetal heartbeat to the mother before she may have an abortion.
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"I believe the decision of whether or not to have an abortion lies solely with the pregnant woman, according to the dictates of her conscience and in communion with the God of her understanding," she notes on her campaign website.
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There is a tiny window of time to even find out you're pregnant in order to have an abortion by the six-week mark, and you may need some time to make your decision after you find out that you're pregnant.
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"My purpose today is to create that space for stories to come forward," Thompson said, adding that her decision to have an abortion didn't have some larger reason behind it; she just didn't want to be a mother at 16.
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A panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to set aside a district-court judge's order permitting the girl to have an abortion, but when the entire court re-heard the case, it sided with the girl.
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She's one of many women Droz Tragos interviews on camera about their choice to have an abortion, whether it's motivated by timing (such as a heartbreakingly shy teen with a mouth full of braces), fetal anomalies, or a brutally abusive partner.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 17-year-old illegal immigrant in federal custody in Texas can have an abortion immediately despite the objections of President Donald Trump's administration, a U.S. appeals court decided on Tuesday in a ruling spearheaded by Democratic-appointed judges.
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The Trump administration Monday night asked the Supreme Court to grant a two-week stay on one of the rulings that had ordered the government to allow two undocumented immigrant teens in federal custody to have an abortion, multiple reports say.
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Representative Tim Murphy told KDKA's Jon Delano he won't be seeking re-election in 2018, just a day after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported he pushed his mistress to have an abortion earlier this year despite his pro-life political stance.
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She worries that she's just repeating the life of her teen mother; that she should have been as strong as her mother, who chose not to have an abortion at 17; that she ruined her mother's life by being born.
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But research has mostly focused on what happens to a woman's mental health when she does have an abortion, and anti-abortion laws are often propped up by the belief that the procedure can lead to negative mental health effects.
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House Bill 2, enacted in January, required a physician or technician to perform an ultrasound, describe and display the ultrasound images to the mother, and provide audio of the fetal heartbeat to the mother before she could have an abortion.
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Lest we forget: These were the years in which women's liberation began to bubble and then boil; when women in America had newly obtained access to the birth control pill and, later, the right to have an abortion, among other wins.
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A 2017 study by Grossman's colleagues at UCSF found that women who choose to have an abortion are more certain about that decision than for other medical procedures - like whether or not to have a mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis.
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Estimates from over 80 studies and peer-reviewed articles by researchers across the globe in just the past decade alone show that 85033 percent of women who have an abortion will experience "serious and/or prolonged negative consequences" mentally and emotionally.
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The bill allows women to get abortions after 24 weeks if their life or health is threatened by the pregnancy in addition to permitting women to have an abortion at any time if the fetus is not viable, according to syracuse.com.
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It's better when people have access to a range of options for safe abortion care, and when no one fears arrest or jail for ending a pregnancy, seeking medical care, or supporting someone who has decided to have an abortion.
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Ultimately, she decided to have an abortion..Read more: There's evidence that women who are denied abortions could suffer from chronic health problemsFollowing the abortion, Milano remained in a relationship with her boyfriend, and recalled how in love they were.
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The bill allows women to get abortions after 24 weeks if their life or health is threatened by the pregnancy in addition to permitting women to have an abortion at any time if the fetus is not viable, according to syracuse.com.
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One of the people in the room during the hearing was Kim Jorgensen Gane, a woman from Michigan who came to Washington to represent the voice of the 1 in 4 women in the U.S. who will have an abortion.
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ROME – Italy&aposs foreign minister has proudly announced the return to Italy of a young Pakistani woman who was taken by her family to Pakistan to have an abortion against her will after she got pregnant by her Italian boyfriend.
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Through assistance from the Chicago Abortion Fund, she had the financial support needed to make the decision to have an abortion, and now shares her experience across multiple platforms with the hope of destigmatizing abortion, especially among women of color.
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"I knew that if I couldn't afford to have an abortion in time, I would be forced to continue to be pregnant and to give birth when I never want to do either of those things," she told me over email.
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Presidential votes: 2217: Clinton 2217–Trump 27003 249: Obama 22016–Romney 22016 2008: Obama 44–McCain 55 March 13 special election Pro-life Representative Tim Murphy resigned after it was discovered that he'd asked his mistress to have an abortion.
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If the next seat to be vacated belonged to Kennedy or a liberal justice, progressives would be justified in declaring that the fight over this single seat could reverse the left's landmark decisions, such as the right to have an abortion.
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Under early New Zealand law, women couldn't legally have an abortion unless the pregnancy was a threat to their lives or a serious danger to their health, and both they and their doctor had to agree on the "therapeutic" abortion.
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Before them, Representative Tim Murphy, Republican of Pennsylvania, resigned after his mistress said he had pressured her to have an abortion, and Representative Joe Barton, Republican of Texas, announced his retirement after lewd photos of him appeared on the internet.
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The Florida Supreme Court in 1989 struck down a similar parental consent law, ruling that the state's constitutional right to privacy protects a woman's choice to have an abortion and those protections extend to minors, according to The New York Times.
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It also has a special section pertaining to patients under 18: Oklahoma requires parental notification and consent before a minor can have an abortion, and the form requires information about that process or a judicial bypass, if one was obtained.
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"A ban at six weeks of pregnancy means many of our patients would lose their right to have an abortion before they even know they're pregnant," Shannon Brewer, director of the state's sole abortion provider, Jackson Women's Health Organization, told CBS.
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The state failed to present "any convincing evidence" that the law did what the state said it did: preserve fetal life and women's mental health by convincing them not to have an abortion, found U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt.
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" He doubled down on his comments in a subsequent interview with Alaska Public Media, saying: "You have individuals who are in villages and are glad to be pregnant, so that they can have an abortion because there's a free trip to Anchorage involved.
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The Supreme Court has previously ruled that states cannot put the interests of a fetus ahead of the interests of a pregnant woman until a fetus is "viable," concluding that a woman can have an abortion any time up to 24 weeks.
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About 230% of counties in the US do not have an abortion provider, according to a 240 study by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and experts and abortion rights advocates emphasize that restrictive laws disproportionately cripple lower-income communities of color.
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More than a dozen states already have such a ban even though it is inconsistent with Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court's abortion-rights ruling from 1973, which gives women the right to have an abortion until about 24 weeks of a pregnancy.
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The last public lawsuit that Loggans filed against Kelly was in April 225, when she represented Patrice Jones, a Chicago woman who claimed the star impregnated her when she was underage, and that one of his associates took her to have an abortion.
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We're approaching that question as if abortion is wrong, and therefore anyone who wants to end a pregnancy has to have a reason that's 'accepted,' that a larger populace will grudgingly say, 'yes under these circumstances, we'll let you have an abortion.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was looking to regain frontrunner status in New Hampshire, scored some of the loudest cheers of the night when she called for "a national law to protect the right of a woman's choice" to have an abortion.
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Justice Department attorney August Flentje told the judge that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is managing the teens' detention, reached a decision late Sunday night that it was not in Jane Poe's "best interest" to allow her to have an abortion.
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"The first thing I thought when I heard it was, 'Well, at least now he will absolve me,' " said a 38-year-old mother of two adopted children who decided, without her husband's knowledge, to have an abortion for personal and economic reasons.
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They tended to defer to the moral sensibilities of abortion opponents by arguing that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare" — even though abortion is very common (about a quarter to a third of women will have an abortion in their lifetime).
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" One in three women in the United States has had or will have an abortion in her lifetime and Plimpton notes there is a great need for change as abortion is the most regulated of medical care and the "only politicized medical procedure.
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According to the Chicago Sun-Times -- which says it has read Joycelyn Savage's latest Patreon posts since Saturday -- R. Kelly allegedly once impregnated Joycelyn and then forced her to have an abortion procedure in his own home ... this according to Joycelyn, supposedly.
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The resignation followed reports that Murphy -- who compiled a staunchly anti-abortion rights voting record in Congress -- tried to privately convince a woman he had an extramarital affair with to have an abortion, according to messages obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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"I would feed it, hug it, love it, get attached to it, and then, when it would be 21956 or 21993 months old, it would suffocate while in my arms," she recalled, explaining her decision a decade ago to have an abortion.
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Government figures released on Tuesday reveal that 5,190 women from other countries traveled to the UK to have an abortion, with people from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland making up 66 percent and 213 percent of those making the trip, respectively.
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Mr. Edwards has long opposed abortion rights, and his 2015 campaign was lifted by an advertisement in which his wife recalled the family's decision to reject a doctor's recommendation that she have an abortion because the child would be born with spina bifida.
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LONDON — As travelers board flights to Ireland and Northern Ireland for the Christmas holiday, they are finding themselves in the company of fliers toting a message on their luggage tags about the journey women on the island must make to have an abortion.
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That decision established a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but if more states, or even the federal government, pass laws that treat fetuses like people, advocates could build a case that a fetus' rights counterbalance the rights of a woman.
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He encourages his lover to have an abortion and, when she refuses, denies he's the child's father; jealously guards control of the company he founds; spurns his friends and ignores his family; and denies the existence of the cancer that's killing him.
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The full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the federal government to allow a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant to have an abortion, just days after three of its judges ruled she would have to keep waiting to get the procedure.
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Statistically, one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime, and Bruns emphasizes that there are no right or wrong reasons for choosing to terminate a pregnancy—simply put, women don't need a justification for maintaining their own bodily autonomy.
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Facebook executive and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg broke her silence Thursday, weighing in on President Trump's reinstatement of a Reagan-era policy banning U.S. foreign aid to health providers overseas who offer abortion counseling or advocate for a woman's right to have an abortion.
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LOS ANGELES – The Church of Scientology and one of its former members on Monday settled a lawsuit she filed nearly a decade ago alleging she was forced to work long hours as a pre-teen and was coerced to have an abortion at 17.
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Instead, the "sidewalk advocates," as they refer to themselves, attempt to blend in with the clinic escorts and approach the women to ask them if they really want to have an abortion, and refer them to the anti-abortion clinic that is usually nearby.
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They want to extend access to abortion in the event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, the ruling from 1973 that recognized a woman's right to have an abortion (until around 24 weeks or later if her life or health were at risk).
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After Tim Murphy, a vocal opponent of abortion, was compelled to resign after revelations that he encouraged his mistress to have an abortion when she thought she was pregnant, both parties picked their candidates for the newly vacant House seat through a party committee.
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Thill said she hopes the workshops serve the dual purpose of empowering those who might one day have an abortion themselves, and educating advocates—as well as doctors—about how shifting our rhetoric around the procedure might strengthen arguments for people's right to access it.
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"When I made that decision [to have an abortion], I made it by myself, as I feel is the case for a lot of women, and I did not share it with Ryan at the time," Rivera wrote in her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry.
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" Bracey Sherman further noted that many anti-abortion groups emphasize the fact that black women are five times as likely to have an abortion as white women, but fail to acknowledge the "root cause" for this discrepancy—"which is lack of access to consistent contraception.
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In that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that in order for a medical regulation of abortions to be enforced, there needed to be proof that the burden of imposing the regulation outweighed the burden it would impose on a woman's right to have an abortion.
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"Although Ms. Doe's representatives informed the government of the change in timing, they did not inform the government of the other two developments -- which kept the government in the dark about when Ms. Doe was scheduled to have an abortion," Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote.
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"They are trying to locate and populate those searches so that in a face-to-face discussion they can try to convince a woman to not have an abortion, including through ultrasounds or providing false information about or health and safety concerns," she said.
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Lorraine Gilles has just filed the lawsuit we told you about this morning, claiming Mel B defamed her by saying she was having an affair with Mel B's now estranged husband, Stephen Belafonte, who got her pregnant and then convinced her to have an abortion.
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This non-decision kept in place a 2006 ruling made by the court, which allows for a woman to have an abortion in three circumstances: when her life is at stake, when a fetus has serious health problems and when her pregnancy resulted from rape.
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The woman known as "AM" complained to the U.N. Human Rights Committee after being told in the 21st week of pregnancy in November 2011 that her baby would die in the womb or shortly after birth, which led her to have an abortion in Britain.
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I wanted a beacon of hope as a potential title, but it also speaks to the larger themes of the film, and the way that the country tries to create a criteria for whether women should or shouldn't be allowed to have an abortion.
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" The appeals court agreed, writing in its ruling that there was "nothing suspect" about the state requiring a doctor to provide "truthful" information, "even if those disclosures relate to unborn life and have the effect of persuading the patient not to have an abortion.
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday that a text message sent to Murphy from Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist with whom the lawmaker was having an affair, suggested that the Pennsylvania Republican had urged the woman to have an abortion amid a pregnancy scare.
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Democrats are likely to use the hearings to build on fears among liberals that the right to have an abortion could be at risk from the new Supreme Court's conservative lurch -- a factor that could send moderate voters flocking to the polls in November.
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The majority of women who have an abortion are already mothers—they know perfectly well how a newborn baby smells, and the idea that any woman could be convinced to have a child by the mere presence of a scented candle is just insulting.
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The qualification means the government is not allowed to prevent women from obtaining abortions for reasons that are not in the best interest of the woman, while another decision stipulated the government is not allowed to instate penalties on women for choosing to have an abortion.
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According to Senate Bill 1394, doctors must now ask women the reason for which they're choosing to to have an abortion — specifically inquiring whether the pregnancy is the result of a rape or if they're requesting abortion care because they're victims of domestic abuse or sex trafficking.
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If Chutkan's order is ultimately upheld, it would require the federal government to allow the young women to be transported to a facility to have an abortion and block federal officials from retaliating against the teens or from forcing them to reveal their pregnancies to anyone.
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Or it could mean helping a woman have an abortion if she finds herself pregnant when she never wanted to be, or has a pregnancy that is complicating her health, or finds out that the baby she is carrying, that she very much wants, is ill.
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The 8th Amendment, passed in 103, grants personhood status to fetuses and outlaws abortion—Irish women who have an abortion face up to 14 years in prison even in the cases of rape, incest, and where the fetus won't survive outside the womb because of an abnormality.
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Despite the fact that one-third of all American women will have an abortion at some point in their lives, the anti-abortion movement has created an atmosphere of embarrassment and shame that prevents women from talking about the fact that they have had an abortion.
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But with less than 24 hours until polls open, Lamb is neck-and-neck with Rick Saccone, the Republican running to fill the seat of Tim Murphy, who resigned after it was revealed that he had a mistress and had asked her to have an abortion.
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Tim MurphyTim MurphyA federal abortion law might be needed Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Pennsylvania New Members 85033 MORE (R), who resigned in October following a report suggesting that he recommended that a woman he was having an affair with have an abortion.
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To the Editor: Re "The Future of Abortion," by Cari Sietstra (Sunday Review, May 12): So couples who are carriers of genes for fatal diseases will not be able to have an abortion if a prenatal test shows the presence of such a disease, like Tay-Sachs.
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The state has put up a series of hoops women must jump through — including state-mandated counseling designed to convince you not to have an abortion, and a waiting period designed to put you in time out and make you travel back and forth to multiple appointments.
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This results in thousands of woman traveling abroad every year to have an abortion, mostly to the U.K. In 083 alone, 3,265 women and girls gave Republic of Ireland addresses when accessing abortion services at clinics in England and Wales, according to UK Department of Health statistics.
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Start with the implication that J.D. would enjoy the autonomy to have an abortion if only she were to give up on America and return to her home country: a choice between forced motherhood and a bus-ride back to the place she took great pains to escape.
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"We have a national law, we have had it since 1978 — it's as old as my husband — and I have to drive through two regions to have an abortion?" said Silvia Brandimarte, 34, who was told her fetus had a serious genetic disease in her 12th week of pregnancy.
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SINCE 1992, when the Supreme Court barred regulations posing an "undue burden" on a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, pro-life and pro-choice forces have battled over how far states may go in circumscribing the right first recognised 45 years ago in Roe v Wade.
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Given that lawmakers in Oklahoma recently introduced a bill that would require a woman to seek permission from the man who impregnated her to have an abortion — which, as our writer mentioned, not only throws us back to the Stone Age but violates the Constitution — this makes sense.
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Instead of imposing medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion care, government officials should work to ensure that once a woman has made the decision to have an abortion, she has access to the care options that work for her — whether it's medication abortion or another form of abortion care.
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Even before the returns were counted, Republican officials began criticizing Mr. Saccone's candidacy in a district where the anti-abortion Republican previously holding the seat, Tim Murphy, was forced to resign after a woman with whom he was having an affair said he pressed her to have an abortion.
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DRENAS, Kosovo — In February, a local news website in Kosovo published a shocking story: A teenage girl had allegedly been raped and abused for two years, first by a teacher and then by a local police officer, who forced her to have an abortion after she became pregnant.
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"I suggest that the American people make a deal with women: So long as you are using the condom, pill or patch I am providing with my money, you are going to promise not to have an abortion if the contraception fails, which it often does," he wrote.
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The order supersedes a Friday decision issued by three judges from the panel who ruled that the Central American teen staying in a government detention facility — dubbed "Jane Doe" in court papers — needed to find an immigration sponsor to take her in before she could have an abortion.
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Nevertheless: One of the many (many) reasons I don't regret electing to have an abortion is because it gave me a greater understanding of what that choice means, and also bound me to the community of womanhood in a way that only happens when you're a participant, not a bystander.
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Clinton asks viewers to put themselves in the shoes of a woman who, 31 weeks in, is told that her baby will not be able to breathe outside of the womb, and that she must either have an abortion or go through childbirth only to watch her child suffocate and die.
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"When I made that decision [to have an abortion], I made it by myself, as I feel is the case for a lot of women, and I did not share it with Ryan at the time," said Rivera, who chronicles her relationship with Dorsey in her memoir Sorry Not Sorry.
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Planned Parenthood is encouraged by the changes being made by TV. "Planned Parenthood is encouraged by the recent portrayals of what it's like for women who decide to have an abortion," Caren Spruch, director of arts and entertainment engagement at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a recent statement.
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More significantly, a 2015 survey reported overwhelming majorities believe that when a woman has decided to have an abortion, her experience should be: informed by medically accurate information (94 percent), safe (93 percent), without pressure (73 percent), affordable and available in her community (72 percent), and without shame (68 percent).
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"One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime in the UK. The ability to end a pregnancy has enabled women to live their lives in the way that they see fit and bear children at the time they think is right," said Ann Furedi, CEO of BPAS, in a statement.
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He said the principle is rooted in cases that have limited government interference in private and personal life decisions like whom you sleep with, whom you marry, how you decide to raise your children and how to handle your own health care, including whether you chose to have an abortion and take contraception.
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Without a serious Democratic challenger, Mr. Saccone might have coasted to victory like the last person to hold the seat, Tim Murphy, a Republican who resigned after it was revealed that he had encouraged a woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion even though he publicly opposed the procedure.
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About 1 in 3 American women will have an abortion in her lifetime "Bringing stories to the brief is critical, because real women are suffering the real harms of this law," Jessica González-Rojas, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, told reporters on a press call this week.
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The same year, The Chicago Tribune and The Sun-Times reported on two more lawsuits: one filed by a woman who claimed she was underage when Mr. Kelly impregnated her and forced her to have an abortion, and another by a woman who said she was videotaped during sex without her knowledge.
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It is why someone might cross herself, then take mifepristone; end a pregnancy, and preserve a picture of the ultrasound in a memory box; shed tears as she declares she is certain about her decision; and provide or have an abortion, then go home to take care of her children that night.
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"There are a lot of even ultra-Orthodox decisors that say if this pregnancy is going to cause the woman pain, suffering of some kind—and there's understanding that sometimes suffering is material, sometimes suffering is mental—that is something that our tradition says is a reason to have an abortion," Rabbi Ruttenberg said.
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One unresolved issue with respect to Jane Poe is whether the government will have to release a public version of a document prepared by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which has managed the detention of undocumented minors, explaining the ORR director Scott Lloyd's reasons for refusing to allow Jane Poe to have an abortion.
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The legal right to have an abortion is more popular than President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, according to reproductive rights activist and journalist Liz Plank.
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Already, his role in a recent case involving an undocumented immigrant seeking to have an abortion has come under scrutiny, and Senate Democrats have indicated they will press him hard to commit to preserving Roe — a commitment Judge Kavanaugh cannot make without alienating the right, even in the uncertain event he wanted to do so.
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As we sat beneath a poster showing a pregnant woman in a field of orange flowers, the counsellor told me, smiling sweetly, that if I didn't have an abortion I might have to put my education on hold but I wouldn't have to suffer in guilt all my life because I'd killed a baby.
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One of the projects I collaborated on recently was Obvious Child, which I think had a tremendous impact on television and film in that it was a rom-com — not overtly about abortion — but the main character just so happened to have an abortion in a thoughtful and compassionate way that was woven organically in the script.
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One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime in Canada, with more than half of those undergoing abortions aged 20 to 29, according to a 2015 research paper, "Barriers and Facilitators to Family Planning Access in Canada," compiled by researchers at the University of Toronto, McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and Laval University.
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"Brett Kavanaugh must affirmatively declare that he believes the Constitution protects individual liberty and the right of all people to make personal decisions about their bodies and personal relationships," a Planned Parenthood spokesperson wrote in an email ahead of Tuesday's session, "including the right to use contraception, to have an abortion, and the freedom to marry whom they choose."
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Instead, doctors and midwives at the city's Rotunda hospital suggested that Mellet and her husband might wish to 'travel' for treatment (meaning fly to the UK, where abortion is legal.) After a doctor attempted to dissuade Mellet from aborting the pregnancy by saying, "the child might not suffer," Mellet continued with her plans to have an abortion.
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"The Hyde Amendment continues to enshrine two levels of care in this country, so given that people can't outlaw abortion, they've forced it to be framed in terms of 'You can have an abortion if you can pay for it,'" Willie J. Parker, MD, board-certified OB/GYN and board member of Physicians for Reproductive Health, tells me.
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A woman who chooses to have an abortion — as about a quarter of American women do — must make her way to one of those facilities, where she will be legally required to sit through counseling intended to discourage her from having the procedure as well as an ultrasound that must be shown and described in detail to her.
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The special election Tuesday pits Mr. Lamb, a former Marine and federal prosecutor, against Mr. Saccone, a state representative and Air Force veteran, to serve out the last few months of the term of Representative Tim Murphy, a Republican who resigned in October after reports he encouraged a woman, with whom he had an affair, to have an abortion.
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It catalogs horrific instances of abuse: a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out; a victim tied up and whipped with leather straps by a priest; and another priest who was allowed to stay in ministry after impregnating a young girl and arranging for her to have an abortion.
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Several other Republicans have headed for the exit since the summer, including Representative Dave Trott of Michigan, a junior lawmaker who expressed disgust at the state of play in Washington, and Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, who resigned this month after it was revealed that he had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he urged to have an abortion.
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"As a First Amendment matter, there is nothing suspect with a State's requiring a doctor, before performing an abortion, to make truthful, non-misleading factual disclosures, relevant to informed consent, even if those disclosures relate to unborn life and have the effect of persuading the patient not to have an abortion," the appeals court held in its ruling.
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American law does not consider economic liberties to be "fundamental" in the way that, say, the right to have an abortion or the right to get a same-sex marriage are fundamental, and so regulations of economic life aren't required, as matter of law, to have any practical relationship to the goals they are supposed to achieve.
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Partly, that is acceptable because the alternative (forcing a woman to have an abortion against her will) is ethically and legally unacceptable, but partly I suspect it is also because simply living with the knowledge that one has genetic offspring wandering the earth somewhere, without any required financial or social obligations to them, is perhaps not such a terrible harm or moral wrong.
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You would either have to pay out of pocket for astronomically expensive maternity care (the price of pregnancy care and vaginal birth is about $30,000, though insured people pay about a third of that) or you might choose to have an abortion, but Republicans are trying to regulate that procedure into one that exists only in theory, not in practice.
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The ACLU says in the Doe lawsuit that many of these minors are young women and a high number were sexually assaulted right before or during their journey to the US. US Department of Justice lawyer Scott Stewart argued before the court Wednesday that Doe is in the United States illegally and disputed that she was entitled to have an abortion.
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Although she was still under the 24-week mark to have an abortion legally in Maryland, she faced another unexpected complication: George Tiller, one of the few so-called "late-term" abortion providers in the country, had recently been murdered by an anti-choice activist, and she couldn't find a provider in Maryland who would do a D&E after 20 weeks.
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But they surely never anticipated that eventually, many politically charged and contestable questions — for example, whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess guns, to have an abortion, to allow gay couples to marry, or to allow corporations to spend money to help elect our political representatives — would be decided by one unelected justice who straddled political voting blocs on the court.
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Wade (Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney, was the defendant in the class-action suit) that privacy rights under the due process and equal rights clauses of the 210th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion in a pregnancy's first trimester "free of interference by the state," in the words of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who wrote the opinion.
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" The embarrassment was made all the more real in June when a report by the United Nations' Human Rights Committee found that a woman who was forced to choose between travelling abroad to have an abortion or carry the baby full term despite the presence of a fatal foetal abnormality, had been subject to "discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
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At the Pro-Life Women's conference the practical application of this "pro-women" philosophy was not about speaking to press, but for "sidewalk counseling," meaning, standing outside of abortion clinics and trying to convince women not to have an abortion, or to obtain their non-abortion services at a federally qualified health center or crisis pregnancy center, in order to deprive Planned Parenthood of business.
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Despite assurances from anti-abortion groups that their commitment is to protecting pregnant women, not jailing them, those organizations have rarely, if ever, opposed arrests of pregnant women — whether the woman was one of the approximately one million who have an abortion, the one million who experience miscarriages or stillbirths, or one of the four million women who go to term each year in the United States.
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Republican pundits can try to sugarcoat the outcome all they want (yes, there are local circumstances here that made a difference, including the incumbent congressman resigning because he asked his mistress to have an abortion!) but clearly, in race after race, suburban areas are swinging away from the GOP because some voters, even in the midst of a great economy, aren't happy with President Donald Trump's bearing in office.
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Add his on-again, off-again relationship with a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, his role in passing a crime bill that led to millions of mostly black and brown incarcerated bodies, and his vote to gut welfare mercilessly kicking mothers with low incomes off assistance, among a lengthy list of additional issues, and for me, the answer is yes, this is disqualifying and I don't think he should run.
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