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Last news: August 30, 2007 13:00:00

A three-judge panel of the 1st Ohio District Court of Appeals on Friday unanimously ruled that a Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region clinic does not have to provide all records of abortions given to women under 18 to lawyers of a family who is suing the clinic for violating the states parental notification law, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith on Monday issued a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of a new state law (SB 370) that will designate facilities performing second- or third-trimester abortions or more than five first-trimester abortions each month as "ambulatory surgical centers," the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Chinese government plans to implement new regulations to ban sex-selective abortion in an effort to counter the widening gender imbalance, Wang Yongqing, deputy head of the Office of Legislative Affairs of the State Council, recently said, Xinhua/Peoples Daily reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Yuan Weijing, the wife of human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng, was prevented by Chinese authorities on Friday from leaving China to visit the Philippines to accept an award from the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on behalf of Chen, according to AIDS advocate Hu Jia, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri would have to end abortion services at clinics in Columbia and Kansas City if a new Missouri law (SB 370) is allowed to take effect Thursday, PPKM CEO Peter Brownlie testified at a federal court hearing Thursday, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The widespread use of tests to determine the sex of a fetus in India are fueling an increase in sex-selective abortion, government officials and advocates said Tuesday at a meeting examining the issue, Reuters reports (Bhalla, Reuters, 8/21). According to a UNICEF [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Sedgwick County, Kan., Chief Judge Michael Corrigan on Tuesday appointed District Judge Clark Owens to hear the case of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, who has been charged with 19 misdemeanors for allegedly violating a state law that requires an independent, consulting physician to approve some late-term abortions, the Wichita Eagle reports (Lefler, Wichita Eagle, 8/22). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that the Colorado Right to Life Committee is exempted from a state constitutional amendment that requires some advocacy groups to file financial disclosure papers, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday in an interview with Nevada television station KLAS said that if elected president he would allow individual states to keep abortion legal, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

State records show that New Jersey health officials inspected only one of the six-state licensed abortion clinics in two years until recently when complaints brought inspectors to two other clinics, which were closed because of health violations, the Press Atlantic City reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Sedgwick County, Kan., District Judge Anthony Powell on Friday recused himself from a case involving abortion provider George Tiller, who has been charged with 19 misdemeanors for allegedly violating a state law that requires an independent, consulting physician to approve some late-term abortions, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri on Monday filed a lawsuit that asks a federal court to block enforcement of a new Missouri law ( [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Amnesty International on Friday affirmed a policy that supports a womans right to have an abortion under certain circumstances despite opposition from Roman Catholic and conservative leaders worldwide, BBC News reports (Pigott, BBC News, 8/18). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Many community health leaders in the Albany, N.Y., area are concerned about access to abortion in the region after the state mandated changes to three local hospitals, the Albany Times Union reports (Wechsler, Albany Times Union, 8/17). New York Gov. George Pataki (R) and the state Legislature in 2005 formed the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Former Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn.), who is considering running for the Republican presidential nomination, in an interview on Friday called himself "unabashedly pro-life" and said he has "no apologies to make" about his 20-year lobbying career, the AP/Boston Globe reports (Fournier/Glover, AP/Boston Globe, 8/18). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Women who undergo medical abortions with the pills mifepristone and misoprostol have no greater risk of experiencing a tubal pregnancy or miscarriage in future pregnancies than women who undergo surgical abortions, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Attorneys representing Kansas abortion provider George Tiller -- who has been charged with 19 misdemeanors for allegedly violating a state law that requires an independent, consulting physician to approve some late-term abortions -- filed a motion Monday asking that the presiding judge in his case be changed, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A South Dakota judge on Monday ruled that state Rep. Roger Hunt (R) should not be required to identify the person who gave $750,000 to Hunts corporation, Promising Future, which contributed to a campaign to uphold a state law (HB 1215) that would have banned abortion in the state except to save a womans life, the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, is "revealing more complex thoughts" on abortion rights that show his current position "defies easy labels," the [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A new study on Danish women has shown that using abortion pills to terminate pregnancies during the first trimester is no more hazardous to future pregnancies than surgical terminations.The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is the work of scientists in Denmark and the US. [click link for full article] - [Read more]