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The Uruguay Lower Chamber of Congress approved in a 49/48 vote a bill to “decriminalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy for cases of extreme poverty, incest, age, as well as for health reasons such as fetal malformation, or the endangerment of the mother´s life.”
However, debate as usual rests upon a [...]
Isn’t it funny how a government that has dismantled several programs providing direct or indirect support for the right of all women to safety and security, has chosen to become the champion of the “unborn victims” of criminal violence?
The stock answer from the Conservatives, when questioned about the slashing of funds to organizations such as [...]
Just the other day, we were snarking at our USian cousins for their attempts to have a fertilized human egg legally recognized as a person.
But, as we try to often forget, we got them here too. Now, there’s yet another private member’s bill that aims to make a fetus an ‘unborn’ victim of crime.
But this [...]
Pink News is surprised.
Consensual gay sex will no longer be a criminal offence in Nicaragua under a new civil code due to come into effect on March 2008.
The surprise news was announced earlier this week by the Nicaraguan National Assembly, reports La Prensa.
Well, we at Birth Pangs are absolutely gob-smacked.
Nicaragua’s new code removes all [...]
Woo-hoo. Wot fun. USian fetus fetishists are in a tizz. On Sunday, Fred (I Don’t Recall Lobbying for the Pro-Aborts) Thompson let slip a doozy. A columnist in the Chicago Sun-Times writes:
Fred Thompson was well into a prolonged dialogue about abortion with interviewer Tim Russert on NBC’s ”Meet the Press” on Sunday when he said [...]
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