Mandatory Contraceptive Coverage -- Is Abortion Next?
Lawmakers Want Ultrasounds
Abortion rates in Wisconsin dropped by more than half after the state offered the so-called look-and-listen option, officials said.
The Indiana Senate Health Committee currently is considering the proposal.
Protests Move Speech
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 19 — New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, a Catholic who supports abortion, moved his first public town hall meeting from a Catholic university after pro-life Catholics objected to his plans.
McGreevey moved the meeting from Seton Hall University to Montclair State University. pro-life advocates were angered not only because McGreevey was going to have the town hall meeting at the Catholic school, but also because it was scheduled for Jan. 22, the 29th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Abstinence Funding
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 30 — The Bush administration is asking Congress for a 33% increase in funding for sexual abstinence education programs. In the budget the president proposed a total of $135 million for abstinence-only programs, an increase of $33 million over this year.
The request fulfills a pledge Bush made while campaigning for president — to spend as much promoting abstinence as some have calculated the government spends educating teens about contraception.
Teen Promotes Unborn Bill
Smith is arranging to address Idaho legislators in favor of a law protecting children from people who would hurt or kill them before they're born.
The Idaho teenager was starting her ninth month of pregnancy when she was attacked July 8 in her home. Hit, kicked and stomped, Smith sensed the beating had hurt her baby and was rushed to the hospital. Noah was stillborn.
Pain Relief Discovery
In the latest finding, Dr. Khem Jhamandas of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at Queen's University, concluded that tiny doses of opioid antagonists — drugs normally used to block the toxic effects of opioids — actually enhance the pain-killing qualities of morphine.