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Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, delivers remarks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in the Pepsi Center in Denver on August 26, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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The Texas House, with opponents shouting from the gallery, overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would place new limits on abortion.
While the eyes of the nation were on Texas' abortion debate and filibuster, laws affecting abortion access went into effect without much national hoopla.
Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday called a special session of the Legislature after a special session ended without passage of a bill restricting abortion in Texas.
The Obama administration dropped its bid to limit sales of the morning-after contraceptive pill for women and abide by a U.S. District Court judge's ruling.
The White House says a U.S. judge has no right to force it to make over-the-counter morning-after pills available to girls and women of all ages.
A U.S. District Court ruled unconstitutional Idaho's "fetal pain" law, which bans most abortions after 20 weeks.
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops said religious-affiliated employers aren't free of a birth control mandate despite the Obama administration's revised plan.
U.S. voters may have returned the same leadership to Washington on Election Day but that doesn't mean they expect the status quo to continue, observers say.
Moving to a more moderate position, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered assurance he would not limit abortions.
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., this week likely will be a less glittery affair than 2008, when Barack Obama accepted the party's nomination.
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