Abortion

TALKING POINTS

Talking points

21 May 2013

ESF board debates fee increases

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Doctor Kermit Gosnell found guilty of murder in Philadelphia abortion trial

14 May 2013

A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty on Monday of murdering three babies during abortions at a clinic serving low-income women in a case that cast a national spotlight on the controversial...

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Life-saving abortion rules aired in Ireland

2 May 2013

Ireland's government has unveiled a long-awaited bill that lays down new rules explaining when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially lethal confusion for women in a...

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US judge dismisses three murder counts against 'house of horrors' abortion doctor

25 Apr 2013

A judge has thrown out three of eight murder charges in the high-profile trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider accused of killing babies allegedly born alive at his clinic, dubbed by...

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Irish 'abortion' death a mishap, inquest finds

20 Apr 2013

An Indian dentist who was denied an emergency abortion at an Irish hospital last autumn died due to medical misadventure, her inquest has found. A jury sitting in Galway reached a unanimous...

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Spain's government, under Church pressure, vows to tighten abortion law

19 Apr 2013

Spain's centre-right government, under pressure from the Catholic Church and its own ultraconservative wing, has vowed "promptly" to tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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China Digest, January 28, 2013

A woman was hit and killed by a train while crossing railroad tracks near the Lishui Bridge subway station in Beijing on Saturday, The Beijing News reports.

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Doctor's mistake led to abortion

A private hospital doctor has been disciplined for wrongly telling a woman she was not pregnant - leading her to have an abortion after undergoing X-rays and taking medication.

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Briefs, December 16, 2012

Church leaders in the Philippines said yesterday that an impending birth control law aimed at reducing poverty in the conservative nation was one step towards legalising abortion. In a letter...

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ABORTION

Mother's Choice provides lifeline for girls with crisis pregnancies in HK

She did not want her parents to find out.

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ABORTION

Shenzhen abortions hold high risks for Hong Kong women

While pregnant women from the mainland have flocked to Hong Kong to give birth at the city's top-notch hospitals, thousands of pregnant Hongkongers are making the reverse journey - for a rather...

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IRELAND

Abortion in Ireland returned to spotlight by death

About 10,000 people marched through Dublin and observed a minute's silence in memory of an Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion.

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