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Critics of clinic regulations speaking out

Opponents of Virginia's new abortion clinic regulations are taking their case to the state Board of Health.

Tags: NARAL

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Md. police settle with abortion protesters

The Maryland State Police will pay $385,000 to nine anti-abortion protesters arrested in Harford County nearly four years ago.

Tags: Harford County, Bel Air

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Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill

Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory on July 1 under a law signed Wednesday by Gov. Bob McDonnell, who faced a political uproar before lawmakers deleted language that would have made the exams medically invasive.

Tags: measure, Virginia, ultrasound

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Testimony change led to dismissal in abortion case

A Maryland prosecutor says he had to drop murder charges against two abortion doctors after learning that an expert witness expected to testify that the fetuses were terminated in the county would change his testimony.

Tags: Cecil County Circuit Court, Elkton, Md., Nicola Irene Riley, Steven Brigham, C. Thomas Brown, William Ryan, Ellis Rollins

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Va. fetal ultrasound mandate heads for gov's desk

The most emotionally charged bill of Virginia's 2012 General Assembly mandating ultrasound exams for women seeking abortions has cleared its final legislative hurdle and is on its way to Gov. Bob McDonnell's expected signature.

Tags: fetal ultrasound, Bob McDonnell, Kathy Byron

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Va. Senate passes ultrasound abortion mandate

Virginia's Senate passed legislation Tuesday that requires women seeking abortions to undergo noninvasive ultrasounds, days after amending the measure to eliminate a requirement that the exams be conducted through a vaginal procedure that had drawn the scorn of commentators and TV comedians.

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Va. Senate kills 'personhood' bill for this year

A bill that would define life as starting at conception is done this year in the Virginia legislature.

Tags: Del. Bob Marshall, personhood, ultrasounds, Virginia General Assembly, Bob McDonnell

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Utrasound abortion bill clears Va. Senate

A day after Virginia Republican legislators dropped a bitterly contested requirement that women undergo invasive pre-abortion ultrasound imaging, the intrusive procedure has been dropped from a companion bill.

Tags: ultrasound bill, personhood, Gov. Bob McDonnell

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Va. House scraps invasive pre-abortion requirement

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Va. House passes amended transvaginal ultrasound bill

Virginia Republican legislators have dropped a bitterly contested requirement that women seeking abortions undergo invasive ultrasound imaging, likely dooming the bill.

Tags: Gov. Bob McDonnell, transvaginal ultrasound

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