Former abortion rights group leader Kelli Conlin probed for possible financial misconduct

It is not that I wish to jubilate - but I feel relieved whenever a proper obstacle comes in the way of something I find immoral - even criminal.

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I've been made to help protect my son's killer: Fury of James Bulger's moth

This should not be under 'politics' but under the term 'Law'.

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Woman jailed for three years for crying rape is seven months pregnant

This case shows that false accusations of sexual crimes have become am easy and frequent weapon of revenge and other motives.

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Pentagon to propose way forward on gay ban - Yahoo! News

If I put this under 'health', I have in mind the effect of unperturbed "gayety" as it happily helped spreading unpleasant side-effects in the 'bathhouses' of the Castro and San Francisco - something not mentioned in the recent gay propaganda film "Milk".

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Why Flight 253 Could Delay Guantanamo's Closure - Yahoo! News

The whole Bush fanatism debate has not found an end under "the first different President ofthe USA" - it just dawdled along as ever it did.

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Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance - Yahoo! News

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Gay marriage blocked on eve of ceremony by Argentinian judge

As sad however, the judges decision is correct: two persons of the same sex cannot enter what is in its original form, tradition, and meaning "matrimonium". I am afraid, I can see no future 'mother', and if they were two women, the future 'father' would be missing.

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Religious right launches fresh assault on US abortion rights

Defense Is NOT Assault! I wish to object to the term "assault" in this article. That is as if an intervention against an attacker who tries to rape someone would be called an "assault".

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Political Justice - for whom?

I would have preferred to put this cotribution under "Law" or "Ethics" - rather than 'Politics' - but those, my favourite categories seem to be not available.

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Girl 'cried rape after living out fantasy of having sex with two strangers'

This is a good thing, and good because it may be the beginning of making it happen often, i.e. when it should be.

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What is human life worth - born or unborn?

When I taught my course in "Problems and Ethics in the Progress of Science", esp. Medical Science, I made it clear that we need national, regional, and global population controls - but not through "conveyor belt abortions".

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Violent men to be banned from homes

There is something wrong with the new "law against violent men" - i.e.

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Obama, US poodles, and Iran

Dear Groniads,

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How to Get Over Him: An Honest Guide to Surviving a Breakup - MSN Relationships - article

It's universally acknowledged that breaking up is as much fun as a root canal, but there are ways to lessen the pain. Here's how to come out of a breakup with your sanity and dignity intact.

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Justice Dept.: 1st Gitmo detainee arrives in US

WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

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Obama Tugs at the Settlement Knot

The president's stand on Israeli settlements will test his resolve.

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Six Ways to Make It Easier to Dump Someone - MSN Relationships - article

Marie Claire's dating blogger, Rich Santos, sounds off on the fact that breakups are a part of life … and offers six tips for making a breakup a little easier for both parties.

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Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee

The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama's belief in constitutional protections for a …

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