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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Updates: Anti-abortion in the states






4/13/2012 - Arizona Governor Signs Anti-Abortion Bill 
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a bill on Thursday that prohibits abortions in the state after 20 weeks. The bill, passed earlier this week by the state legislature, essentially bans abortions after 18 weeks....
4/12/2012 - Planned Parenthood Sues Texas 
A group of eight Planned Parenthood organizations filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas on Wednesday to prevent the state from excluding them from its Women's Health Program.
The teenage birth rate dropped to an historic low according to an April 2012 report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (PDF).
4/11/2012 - AZ House Passes Anti-Abortion Bill
The Arizona legislature approved a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit abortions in the state after 20 weeks.... 
4/10/2012 - Wisconsin Governor Signs Anti-Woman Bills
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker quietly signed a set of over 50 bills last Thursday, many of which will have a direct impact on women's health in the state.
The American Civil Liberties Union will be allowed to pursue its case against a law in Kansas that restricts insurance plans from covering abortions.  
A suspect was charged yesterday in the April 1 bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. The Associated Press reports that Francis Grady, 50,
Police are investigating a homemade bomb that exploded last night outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. No injuries were reported, and the clinic experienced only minimal damage from a fire caused by the bomb.

2/28/2012 - Man Indicted for Burning FL Abortion Clinic
Late last week, a federal grand jury charged Bobby Joe Rogers, a homeless man, with destroying the American Family Planning Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, in a firebombing on January 1....
2/21/2012 - Thousands Protest VA Anti-Abortion Bills
Between 1,000 and 1,500 women stood arm-in-arm yesterday at the Virginia state Capitol in Richmond to silently protest two anti-abortion bills scheduled for votes by the state's General Assembly....
2/2/2012 - Komen Foundation to Stop Grants to PPFA
Yesterday the Susan G....
1/18/2012 - Twenty-five KS Members to Sponsor Personhood Amendment
Twenty-five Members of the Kansas House of Representatives announced that they will co-sponsor a personhood amendment in the state....
1/13/2012 - State Ballot Initiative and Referendum Roundup
In Florida and Montana anti-abortion initiatives or referenda will appear on state ballots in 2012....
1/12/2012 - OH Ballot Board Approves Language for Personhood Amendment
The Ohio Ballot Board approved the language purposed by anti-abortion rights groups for a personhood amendment, which proposes to give constitutional rights to a fertilized egg....
1/3/2012 - FBI Investigates FL Abortion Clinic Fire
On Sunday, January 1st, the American Family Planning clinic in Pensacola, Florida burnt nearly to the ground.... 

2011

12/20/2011 - NV Judge Rewrites Personhood Initiative to Include Possible Effects
District Judge James Wilson Jr....
11/22/2011 - Virginia Delegate Introduces Personhood Amendment
On Monday, Virginia state Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Prince William County) filed a "personhood" bill, which states that life begins at conception and proposes to give constitutional rights to a fertilized egg....
11/9/2011 - Women's Right Advocates Victorious in Defeating Mississippi Personhood Amendment
In an exciting and important victory for women's rights advocates, Mississippi voters defeated the Personhood Amendment....
11/9/2011 - Women's Right Advocates Victorious in Defeating Mississippi Personhood Amendment
In an exciting and important victory for women's rights advocates, Mississippi voters defeated the Personhood Amendment....
10/12/2011 - Federal Court Judge Allows Clinic to Join Kansas Lawsuit
Yesterday US District Court Judge Thomas Marten ruled that the Dodge City Family Planning Clinic was permitted to join a lawsuit, filed by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri (PPKM), challenging a Kansas law that prevents both organizations from receiving Title X family planning....

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