* Let's Talk: An Honest Conversation on Critical Issues: Abortion, AIDS, Euthanasia, Healthcare by C. Everett Koop, M. D.

" The Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality ( TUMAS ) was formed in 1987 to further the pro-life ministry in the United Methodist Church.

* October 28 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the drug.

Abortion has been legal on a wide number of grounds in England and Wales and Scotland since the Abortion Act 1967 was passed.

Abortion was dealt with by the Ecclesiastical Courts in England, Scotland and Wales until the reformation.

The pro-choice group, the Abortion Law Reform Association, was formed in 1936.

There was therefore no statutory limit put into the Abortion Act 1967, the limit being that which the courts decided as the time at which a child could be born alive.

The effect was that the Infant Life Preservation Act was decoupled from the Abortion Act thus allowing abortion to full term for disability, life of the mother and health of the mother.

The riff from " Sweet Leaf " was used as the basis for the Butthole Surfers ' song " Sweat Loaf ", from the album Locust Abortion Technician.

" The Abortion Act 1967 was enacted in the United Kingdom through this means, with the Bill itself being introduced by a Liberal Party Member of Parliament, David Steel ; through the support from Home Secretary Roy Jenkins the Bill was given enough government time to allow a full debate.

As an MP he was responsible for introducing, as a Private Member's Bill, the Abortion Act 1967 ( see Abortion in the United Kingdom ).

Abortion was portrayed in the early 2000s as Kay McCoy decided to abort her pregnancy despite her husband's wishes, for fear the child would be born severely disabled.

Abortion was legalized in 1967.

Friedan founded the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws but was later critical of the abortion-centered, politicized tactics of many liberal and radical feminists.

Jackson's high point in the campaign was a distant third in the early Florida primary, but he failed to stand out of the pack of better known rivals, and only made real news later in the campaign as part of the " Stop McGovern " coalition, that raised what would be known as the " Acid, Amnesty and Abortion " questions about McGovern.

In 2003, Chafee was one of the three Republican Senators to oppose the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Abortion was completely banned in Canada in 1869.

The standard was the physical or mental well-being of the mother, to be decided by a hospitals Therapeutic Abortion Committee.

The abortion then had to be approved by a hospital's Therapeutic Abortion Committee ( commonly known as a TAC ), which was composed of three doctors.

Some commentators have noted that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act's language was carefully crafted to take into account previous rulings.

On October 21, 2003, with Senate Democrats, Collins was one of the three Republican Senators to oppose the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

The League strongly opposed the passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act.

Smith was also an ultra-conservative Republican who opposed unions, communism, socialism, the Equal Rights Amendment, Homosexuality, Abortion, Affirmative Action, and indecency.

Due to his Catholic views, he opposed Leo Abse's Divorce Bill and David Steel's Abortion Bill.

Slepian was sympathetic to the beliefs of those who opposed abortion, saying, " Abortion is undeniably the taking of potential life.

She publicly opposed the launched investigation into the financial accounting of Planned Parenthood, stating that the investigation “ is an unfortunate waste of taxpayer dollars .” Moore voted “ nay ” on Amends Federal Health Care Law to Prohibit Abortion Coverage on October 13, 2011.

* Abortion – breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion

* TRAP law (" Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers "), a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers

Pelosi voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and earlier attempts at similar bans, and voted against the criminalization of certain situations where a minor is transported across state lines for an abortion ( HR 748, passed ).

During the height of the pro-rights and pro-life abortion debate of the 1980s, the NFB released the documentary film Abortion: Stories from North and South ( 1984 ).

Abortion is also accepted in the Weyr, while Holders and Crafters believe abortion to be " evil.

Five provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act authored by Rep. Stephen F. Freind were being challenged as unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, which first recognized a constitutional right to have an abortion in the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

For the purposes of sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, and any rule of law relating to the procurement of abortion, anything done with intent to procure a woman's miscarriage ( or in the case of a woman carrying more than one foetus, her miscarriage of any foetus ) is unlawfully done unless authorised by section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967 and, in the case of a woman carrying more than one foetus, anything done with intent to procure her miscarriage of any foetus is authorised by the said section 1 if the ground for termination of the pregnancy specified in subsection ( 1 )( d ) of the said section 1 applies in relation to any foetus and the thing is done for the purpose of procuring the miscarriage of that foetus, or any of the other ground for termination of the pregnancy specified in the said section 1 applies.

Although Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man are not part of the United Kingdom, as they are part of the Common Travel Area, people resident on these islands who choose to have an abortion have traveled to the mainland UK since the Abortion Act 1967.

In " The Right to Abortion: A Libertarian Defense ," the Association of Libertarian Feminists has created what they call a " systematic philosophical defense of the moral case for abortion from a libertarian perspective.

It helped organize protests demanding legal abortion through the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition.

Abortion became a highly controversial issue with the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973 that women have a constitutional right to choose an abortion, and that cannot be nullified by state laws.

The party adopts a strongly pro-life stance, describing abortion as a " crime against humanity " and would repeal the 1967 Abortion Act.

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (,, PBA Ban ) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late-term abortion that the Act calls " partial-birth abortion ", often referred to in medical literature as intact dilation and extraction.

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act defines " partial-birth abortion " as follows:

Kennedy's majority opinion argued that the case differed from Stenberg v. Carhart, a 2000 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state ban on " partial-birth abortion " as unconstitutional, in that the Partial Birth Abortion Act defined the banned procedure more clearly.

Shays is partially pro-choice on abortion but voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

In 2011, Costello co-sponsored HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would strictly limit the situations in which abortion could be paid for by public funds.

Similarly, the Abortion Act 1967 did not allow free access to abortion for women who needed it, but required them to obtain medical permission and imposed time limits on terminations of pregnancy.

He is also a supporter of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which seeks to prohibit the taking of minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.

In May 1937 Birkett was appointed Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee for Abortion set up by the Minister of Health and Home Secretary, preparing a report " to inquire into the prevalence of abortion, and the law relating thereto, and to consider what steps can be taken by more effective enforcement of the law ", something which occupied him for two years.