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Reality Check: Claims that Reform will Encourage Abortions at School `Sex Clinics` are Absurd

The absurdity of this claim earns high honors from Politifact, a non-partisan research organization: Pants on Fire!

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Wednesday night, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann questioned health insurance reform, raising the specter of school-based "sex clinics" that would take students to "have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night":

It means that parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment that their children are receiving.

Violent Abortion Protesters and Taliban Bear Striking Similarities

The man accused of murdering an abortion doctor Sunday drove away from the crime scene in a powder blue sedan with a Jesus fish on the back.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I see no difference between abortion protesters who murder doctors, or support the act, and the Taliban. They're the same people on a different day in a different place.

Like the old saying, "they went to different high schools together", each centers around the notion that they, the conservative religious figures, have the fundamental right to control and therefore reduce, the rights of women.

Dr. Tiller, Reknowned Abortion Doctor Murdered in Kansas Church

After years of repeatedly being the target of protests and violence, the doctor was killed while attending church.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - Police say a Kansas doctor was killed Sunday about 10:00 a.m. while attending the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, where he was a member of the congregation.

67-year old Dr. George Tiller has been at the head of longstanding controversy surrounding his practice of administering abortions. His clinic has been the site of many anti-abortion protests for decades, and the doctor was recently acquitted of several misdemeanor charges lodged against him. Tiller has been among the few U.S. physicians performing late-term abortion.

The Black Market of Abortion in the Arab World

Murder, scandal or women’s rights?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Although relatively widespread in Syria, abortion remains an unspoken secret, brushed under the rug by a conservative society.

People prefer neither to acknowledge nor talk about it, acting as if by turning a blind eye, the debate on abortion will simply go away.

Woman in China Faces Imminent Forced Abortion (VIDEO)

China's treatment of Muslim minority citizens is often shocking.

(HONG KONG) - Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children.

As a member of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority, Tursun is legally permitted to more than the one child allowed most people in China. But when word of a third pregnancy reached local authorities, they coerced her into the hospital for an abortion, her husband told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

"Arzigul is being kept in bed number three," a nurse in the women's section at Gulja's Water Gate Hospital said in a telephone interview with RFA's Uyghur service.

PSA Targets Sarah Palin`s Anti-Abortion Position

In some red states, the fight has progressed to the point that rape victims left pregnant by their attackers are forced to carry the babies to full term, only to deal with the rapists later seeking parental rights.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Survivors of sex abuse are rallying against the politics of the GOP's vice-presidential pick. Sarah Palin's staunch anti-abortion views actually have a backfire effect for rape victims. The woman featured in a TV PSA that is currently running was raped, and must carry the child to full term under Palin's plan.

Sexual abuse survivors like Coral Theill, formerly of Polk County, Oregon, take strong exception to Palin's position. Theill's story involved the Polk County, Oregon justice system backing the sex abuser who was friends with judges, police and others in the local area.

Mannix Slithers to New Lows With Underhanded Political Smear

Mannix direct-mailed 60,000 GOP voters, alleging that his opponent got a woman pregnant, then paid for her to have an abortion.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The battle for the house seat soon to be vacated by longterm Congresswoman Darlene Hooley isn't anywhere near the final lap, but one Oregon politician, a lawyer named Kevin Mannix, has already dropped to basement level in his apparent goal of smearing a fellow Republican.

In a surprise move, Mannix actually played the abortion card.