PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge says Portland cannot use its noise law to restrict anti-abortion protesters outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen ruled Monday in favor of a Lewiston pastor who contended he was unlawfully targeted because of his views. Andrew March filed the lawsuit after a member of his […]
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Maine Family Planning to offer abortions via telemedicine
PORTLAND — Maine is set to become the third state where women can utilize telemedicine to access abortion pills to end early pregnancies without the need for an in-office consultation with a doctor. The operator of one of Maine’s three clinics, Augusta-based Maine Family Planning, announced Monday that it intends to allow patients to visit one […]
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A simple question, but not a simple answer
“Are you anti-abortion?” That question, from a colleague, caught me by surprise. After all, she knows I’ve written a number of pro-choice columns. “I know you’re pro-choice,” she added, reading my mind. “But I was wondering if you’re anti-abortion.” I knew where this was coming from. She had just finished reading the first draft of […]
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ACLU, abortion providers sue DHHS over MaineCare rule
AUGUSTA — Abortion providers and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday in a bid to overturn a longstanding rule limiting low-income women’s access to a state-funded abortion. It’s buried deep within a set of rules developed in 1981 and last revised in 2010, before Gov. Paul LePage took office. […]
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Go back to being responsible
This is in response to the column by Connie Schultz (Oct. 3), “Standing tall for Planned Parenthood.” It sounded like Barack Obama trying to sell his health care plan. In her pride of siding with Parent Parenthood and their inhumane atrocities, she fails to see that the title of that organization is more than deceiving. […]
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Choosing life is the right choice
After reading Sen. Dawn Hill’s and Rep. Sara Gideon’s guest column, “Extremist agenda erodes access” in the Sun Journal (Oct 11), I truly wonder how any rational person can support the Democratic Party. The headline led me to believe that people who oppose abortions want to rob women of health care. Please explain to me […]
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Maine Democrats say they will fight to protect Planned Parenthood
AUGUSTA — Democratic leaders in the Maine Legislature said Thursday they intend to fight a “baseless” attack against Planned Parenthood by a trio of Republican lawmakers planning to sponsor legislation to cut funds to the organization. Planned Parenthood, which provides low or no-cost health care and other services to women, including cancer screenings, birth control […]
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Sen. Susan Collins votes against GOP ban on late-term abortions
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked Republican legislation Tuesday that would prohibit most late-term abortions, the second time since this summer’s release of videos involving Planned Parenthood that they’ve derailed an abortion-related drive by the GOP. Senators voted 54-42 to move ahead on the legislation, but that fell six short of the 60 votes needed to […]
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Repent from our wicked ways
Vile. Inhumane. Barbaric. Immoral. Those are just a few words I can think of to describe Planned Parenthood’s latest atrocity — the sale of fetal tissue from aborted babies. Those same words could be used to describe those in the U.S. Senate who voted to continue funding that evil organization to the tune of a […]
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All about that 3 percent figure
The nation’s premier provider of abortions doesn’t want to be known for providing abortions. Planned Parenthood, embroiled in a scandal over secret videos capturing its cavalier dismemberment of unborn babies and sale of their body parts, insists that abortion is only 3 percent of what it does. Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to […]