Abortion Foes To Protest Carhart's Md. Clinic
Abortion-rights foes are planning a prolonged protest targeting LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Germantown.
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Abortion-rights foes are planning a prolonged protest targeting LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Germantown.
For decades Congress has used its power over the District of Columbia to ban the city from paying for abortions for poor women, but during a two-year period when lawmakers reversed course at least 300 women got city-funded procedures, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
The New York City Council has passed a bill that would force pregnancy counseling centers to disclose whether they provide abortions, emergency contraception and prenatal care.
Supporters of a Baltimore ordinance that requires pregnancy counseling centers to post a disclaimer if they don't provide abortions or birth control say they will appeal a court ruling that the law is unconstitutional.
Maryland lawmakers will consider legislation to ban the sort of interstate abortions performed last year by a New Jersey doctor.
Abortion rights foes emboldened by a new Nebraska law that restricts late-term procedures based on the disputed notion that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks are pushing for similar legislation in other states, particularly those where Republicans won big in November.
Anti-abortion activists say they plan to protest at a Germantown clinic being opened by a Nebraska late-term abortion doctor. Organizers say activists, clergy and others plan to picket Monday morning at the Reproductive Health Services clinic in Germantown.
