 A
UN event abruptly ended when a women’s rights attorney asked
International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Director General why
harmful contraceptives were targeted to poor women in Africa.
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 Late
yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a terse, unsigned statement,
that parts of the Texas abortion facility safety standard law could not
be enforced.
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 The
city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn
over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise
Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who
fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.
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 Brittany
Maynard, a 29-year-old married woman with terminal brain cancer, plans
to kill herself on Nov. 1, after her husband’s birthday.
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 Doctors
only gave him about two months to live. "I was lethargic," he said. "It
was tough to get up the energy to do things I wanted to do, and it
progressively got worse." They said he needed a stem cell transplant,
but finding the perfect donor would be close to impossible.
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