NEW YORK (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women needing to travel long distances to get an abortion, and raising […]
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Ireland makes its decision on abortion
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists. […]
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Ireland votes to overturn abortion ban
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish have swept aside one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the developed world in a landslide vote that reflects Ireland’s emergence as a socially liberal country no longer obedient to Catholic dictates. With all ballots counted and turnout at an historic high, election officials reported that 66.4 percent voted […]
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Trump to deny funds to clinics that refer for abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or sharing space with abortion providers. The Department of Health and Human Services will announce its proposal Friday, a senior White House official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because […]
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Maine high court hears abortion funding arguments
Maine Chief Justice Leigh I. Saufley asks a question during arguments Wednesday on whether the Department of Health and Human Services is violating women’s constitutional rights by refusing to pay for abortions through the state’s Medicaid program. The case is before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. (Joe Phelan/Portland Press Herald) AUGUSTA — Maine’s highest court […]
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Supreme Court will not hear Lewiston pastor's lawsuit on abortion protest
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a Lewiston pastor who challenged a Maine law’s noise limit that was used to restrict his anti-abortion protest outside Planned Parenthood’s Portland clinic in 2015. The decision by the nation’s highest court not to hear arguments in the case effectively affirms the constitutionality of the noise limit […]
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Our Lady of Ransom Church speaker to discuss abortion
MECHANIC FALLLS — Our Lady of Ransom Church will have a guest speaker, Teresa McCann-Tumidajski, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 8. Her topic will be “Abortion, the Silent Killler.” McCann-Tumidajski is executive director of Maine Right to Life and president of the board of directors. She has been an advocate of pro-life and involved with pro-life […]
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Maine’s high court to decide if state must pay for abortions through MaineCare
Maine’s highest court will decide whether the state can be forced to provide abortions to MaineCare recipients. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine announced Monday that it has appealed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court after a lower court dismissed its original lawsuit last fall. The ACLU sued in November 2015 on behalf of […]
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GOP says Janet Mills aims to bolster gubernatorial run with abortion bill
Republican lawmakers are suggesting that Maine Attorney General Janet Mills resign over a bill she has pushed forward that would allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform abortions. The bill is raising the hackles of anti-abortion conservatives, but it could also bolster Mills’ image as a defender of abortion rights as she seeks the […]
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ACLU, Planned Parenthood sue to expand abortion access in Maine
Leslie Sneddon, left, makes a point at an anti-abortion protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic at 443 Congress St. in downtown Portland in 2014. PORTLAND (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that challenges a Maine restriction common across most of the U.S. that abortions be performed […]