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Alan Guttmacher Institute, The (AGI)


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June 2005: "The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Institute's mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation."

http://www.agi-usa.org/about/

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May 2010: "As with many abortion regulations, state laws regarding ultrasound vary widely. Five states, including two that enacted laws this year, require that abortion providers offer to conduct ultrasounds, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which monitors reproductive health issues. In eight others, providers who perform ultrasounds as a standard practice must offer patients a chance to see them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/health/policy/28ultrasound.html

January 2008: "According to the report released last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research organization, the number of abortions performed in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, the lowest level since 1976. But many of yesterday's marchers said that that is not good enough and that they will not stop until all abortions are illegal."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012201727.html

October 2007: "A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not...the results of the study a collaboration between scientists from the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Guttmacher Institute in New York..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/12abortion.html

March 2006: At a time when policymakers have made reducing unintended pregnancies a national priority, 33 states have made it more difficult or more expensive for poor women and teenagers to obtain contraceptives and related medical services, according to an analysis released yesterday by the nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801450.html

March 2006: "The Guttmacher Institute was founded in 1968 as a 'semiautonomous division of Planned Parenthood Federation of America' but now operates independently, according to its Web site."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801450.html

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May 27, 2010 In Ultrasound, Abortion Fight Has New Front

QUOTE: With backing from anti-abortion groups, which argue that sonograms can help persuade women to preserve pregnancies, 20 states have enacted laws that encourage or require the use of ultrasound....“You don’t just walk into one of these places like you’re getting your nails done,” she said. “I think we’re armed with enough information to make adult decisions without being emotionally tortured.”

 New York Times
Jan 23, 2008 A Youthful Throng Marches Against Abortion

QUOTE: Many of the participants in the March for Life were young people, many from religious clubs and church-run schools...The march has been held each year since 1974 to protest the Supreme Court's Jan. 22, 1973, decision that most laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy.

 Washington Post
May 15, 2007 Ultrasound: latest tool in battle over abortion: Images of fetuses are at the center of a hot debate over states' 'witness to the womb' laws.

QUOTE: Abortion foes say it is a medical imperative that women have access to all information about their pregnancies before deciding whether to end them, and that should include an opportunity to have and see an ultrasound. Abortion rights activists say such requirements are medically unnecessary, constitutionally suspect, and even a form of emotional blackmail of women in the throes of making a difficult choice.

 Christian Science Monitor
Jan 19, 2007 Cover Story: Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?

QUOTE: '...Waxman’s office investigated some of the crisis pregnancy centers and found that when women there asked about abortion’s health effects, 20 of 23 centers gave out false information. At 13 centers, this included characterizing the psychological effects of abortion as “severe, long-lasting and common.”'

 New York Times
May 04, 2006 Unintended Pregancies of Poor Women on the Rise

QUOTE: Researchers found that from 1994 through 2001, the rate of unplanned pregnancies increased by almost 30 percent for women below the federal poverty line...authors noted that some state and federal reproductive health programs have been cut or made more restrictive in recent years.

 Washington Post
Mar 01, 2006 Unintended Pregnancy Linked to State Funding Cuts: First-of-Its-Kind Study Cites Impact On Teenage Girls and Poor Women

QUOTE: At a time when policymakers have made reducing unintended pregnancies a national priority, 33 states have made it more difficult or more expensive for poor women and teenagers to obtain contraceptives and related medical services...

 Washington Post
Mar 01, 2006 A scorecard on curtailing unwanted pregnancy

QUOTE: Among industrialized countries, the United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy...Guttmacher Institute ranked all 50 states in their efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy and found a diverse collection of states at the top.

 Christian Science Monitor
Feb 22, 2006 Abortion Case to Test New Justices: Court Will Review 'Partial Birth' Ban

QUOTE: The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether a 2003 federal ban on the procedure that critics call "partial birth" abortion is constitutional, setting the stage for its most significant ruling on abortion rights in almost 15 years. Without comment or recorded dissent, the court granted the Bush administration's request to review a lower court's ruling striking down the law...

 Washington Post
Jun 13, 2005 Efforts to curb abortion proliferate at state level: Abortion foes try to chip away at Roe v. Wade, most recently through laws focusing on 'personhood' of a fetus.

QUOTE: Lately, however, more such bills are being signed, reflecting, in part, the nation's more conservative state legislatures, and perhaps also the opinion of many Americans, who want abortion to remain legal but would like some restrictions.

 Christian Science Monitor
Mar 28, 2005 Pharmacists' Rights at Front of New Debate: Because of Beliefs, Some Refuse To Fill Birth Control Prescriptions

QUOTE: Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs...sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed.

 Washington Post
Jun 28, 2004 The Bishops And Me: How I Squared Church and State

QUOTE: As a citizen I consider it preposterous and wrong for the political parties to impose an abortion litmus test on eligibility for their party's presidential nomination...But that is no reason for the bishops to make the same mistake by imposing a similar litmus test for the right to receive Communion.

 Washington Post
Jul 11, 2003 Court strikes down abortion notification

QUOTE: . . . that the ones who are most at risk for unintended pregnancies may be the least able to turn to their parents in a crisis situation...When the courts force family involvement, the consequences frequently have been catastrophic - suicide, beatings and so on...

St. Petersburg Times
Jan 22, 2003 Abortion Providers Fewest in 30 Years: Hospital Mergers, Politics Are Cited

QUOTE: ...in a nation in which 44 percent of women will have at least one abortion, the dwindling number of trained providers is tantamount to a denial of basic health services.

 Washington Post