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Minnesota Stem Cell Investigation
The New Scientist looked at data from the University of Minnesota's study on using adult stem cells that have the same effect as embryonic stem cells. Research data was compared and it seemed that the University withdrew the data because the results were hard to repeat. The research from the successful experiment was reprinted again and claimed to be for new cells, but the process hadn't been conducted with successful results.
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Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America
Reporter Eyall Press grew up with this story-- his father, Shalom Press, was a colleague of Dr. Barnett Slepian, the abortion provider who was murdered in Buffalo NY in 1988. Press used "newspaper articles, books, municipal reports, medical journals...videotapes, newslertters, journals, and court records" to document the abortion wars centered in western New York. His main sources were several hundred interviews with the participants in the conflict, including those with pro-life activists, some of whom had "spent years protesting outside my father's medical office in Buffalo, and, at times, outside the home where I grew up." (292 pages)
Tags: James C. Kopp; Army of God; Spring of Life; New York Christian Coalition; Operation Rescue; Paul Schenck; Project Rescue; Pro-life Alliance for Non-Violence; Pro-choice; Roe v. Wade
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Abortion Under Attack
"Post-abortion stress syndrome ... sounds scientific, but don't be fooled - it's a made-up term," reports the Ms. Magazine. The story describes the alleged syndrome as "a bogus affliction invented by the religious right," and finds that it is "anti-choice dirty-play at its worst." The article reveals that millions of dollars are spent each year on alleviation and assistance of women who have had abortions, although "overwhelming scientific evidence shows that abortion does not hurt women - physically or mentally."
Tags: American Psychiatric Association; American Psychological Association; health; doctors; women; unwanted pregnancy; depression; pro-choice; pro-life; politics; medicine; feminism
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Access Denied
"The one big political issue of the '90s was abortion. Feminists have obsessed over Roe v. Wade and championed Clinton and Gore fore defending the right to choose. But at the same time, most women in t his country have etched their ability to obtain an abortion disappear. As Miranda Kennedy points out in 'Access Denied,' 85 percent of counties nationwide have no abortion provider, It's still true that women with money can always access abortion, but women with less cannot."
Tags: abortion clinics; choice; Child Custody Protection Act; parental notification; Mark Crutcher; "A Guerrilla Strategy for a Pro-life America; Life Dynamics; waiting period; Hyde Amendment; Medicaid; late-term abortion
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The Pretenders
A CTV investigation sheds light on numerous cases, when crisis pregnancy centers in North America provide false information or use scare tactics, instead of fairly counselling women with unplanned pregnancies. The story reveals that "in reality, these centers are little more than fronts for pro-life activists who counsel women against having an abortion." Using hidden camera investigative techniques, reporters reveal "the lies that are told," like exaggerations of health risks and scary descriptions of medical procedures. They also find that some centers use religious arguments to dissuade women from having an abortion.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; press clipings; Canadian Access-to-Information Act; pro-life; pro-choice; medicine; health; religion; obstetricians; gynecologists; birth control
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The Death of Jane Roe
The Village Voice investigates Norma McCovey, the original Jane Roe of the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. McCovey once served as a symbol for the pro-choice movement, but now denounces abortion and works for Operation Rescue. The story paints McCovey as a troubled woman, plagued by alcohol and drug abuse, used by pro-choice activists in need of a test case for abortion rights, and later slighted by feminist activists who considered McCovey too uneducated for them to showcase at the forefront of the pro-choice movement.
Tags: Children; Women's rights
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No title (id: 13298)
Who really controls politics? Time magazine answers this question in examining the new heads of the AFL-CIO, NRA, pro-choice, the tobacco industry, the pro-life and pro-choice movements, as well as leaders in small business and Hollywood.
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No title (id: 8735)
New Republic reports on the gubernatorial administration of William Weld, Massachusetts' Republican governor, who campaigned on a platform of liberal social positions (pro-choice and pro-gay rights) and ecomomic conservatism (deregulation, privitization, and tax-cutting), promoting a libertarian philosophy, Dec. 9, 1991.
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Abortion Clinic
CBS News-60 Minutes looks at an unsafe abortion clinic and finds that some in the pro-choice movement cover for such clinics to avoid the publicity.
Tags: TAPE; abortion; pro-choice movement