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NEWS & LETTERS, February-March 2006Rights under attackThe right wing is intensifying their fight to stop abortion AND women's right to contraceptives. At the end of 2005, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a law requiring women seeking an abortion to get counseling about medical risks and alternatives, and wait 18 hours before having the procedure. January saw Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle veto a bill requiring women seeking an abortion to be told a five-month fetus feels pain. In Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney's attempt to veto a bill making the morning-after pill widely available was overridden by the State legislature. In Missouri, Planned Parenthood challenged in court Gov. Matt Blunt's legislation allowing lawsuits against people who help teenagers get abortions not only in Missouri, which has a parental consent law, but in Illinois, which does not! In Illinois, ten pharmacy owners are suing Gov. Rod Blagojevich over a rule requiring state pharmacies to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill. He mandated the rule after pro-choice demonstrators surrounded a Chicago pharmacy protesting a pharmacist's refusal to dispense a doctor-prescribed emergency contraceptive. --MJG |
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