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Abortion

Midday roundup

NPR, NRLC, SCHIP!

Associated Press: A Pittsburgh public radio station "has pulled Planned Parenthood advertising and returned more than $5,000 donated after the station's license holder, Duquesne University, said the organization did not share the school's Catholic mission."

AlterNet: How to address obesity in a fat-phobic society?

The Hill: Ten antiabortion Democrats take the National Right to Life Committee to task for failing to back an expansion of SCHIP. ("Are you really concerned with protecting life or are you concerned with protecting the Bush administration?")

AlterNet, deux: Speaking of which, does Bush hate kids?

Abortion in the news

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The abortion doctor
Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
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What's wrong with the new pro-lifers
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When abortion was a crime
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The abortion debate
An incredibly interesting debate that looks at both the pros and cons of abortion from a secularist viewpoint.

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