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Indiana Chapter of Planned Parenthood to Offer Gift Certificates

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Planned Parenthood of Indiana will offer gift certificates for their services this holiday season. The Indiana state vice president of PPFA told Indiana's CBS 10...

Middle East's First Women Demining Team Trained

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A demining team of 15 women, which is the first all-female demining team in the Middle East, began work yesterday detecting and removing landmines in northern Jordan. A second team of women will begin in February 2009. The women, who were trained and contracted by

Today is 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day

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Worlds AIDS Day is being commemorated globally today with HIV/AIDS testing initiatives, awareness drives, and fundraising efforts. Since its discovery in the early 1980s, AIDS has killed over 25 million people and today 3.3 million are living with HIV worldwide. A United Nations report (see

Czech Republic Proposes Bill to Extend Abortion Serves to EU Citizens

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A new bill was just approved unanimously by the Czech Republic cabinet that would extend abortion privileges and other health services to all European Union (EU) citizens. The bill is being met with strong resistance by deputies of the Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL), a junior governing par...

Florida's Gay Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Circuit Court

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A circuit court judge ruled Tuesday that a law banning gay and lesbian people from adopting children in Florida is unconstitutional. Judge Cindy S. Lederman ruled that the law violated the equal protection guarantees of the state constitution as well as the