Richard Doerflinger
Richard Doerflinger was Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has been described as the USCCB's "point man on abortion" and "a major player in the health care debate," ''Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones'' has called him "The Man Who Almost Killed Health Care Reform" for his co-authorship of the controversial Stupak Amendment. In 2008, the Gerald Health Foundation called him (one of the) "greatest heroes in the pro-life movement." References External links Biography on Kaiser Health News
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Pro-Life
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in response to the legalization of elective abortions. Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Europe In Europe, abortion law varies by country, and has been legalized through parliamentary acts in some countries, and constitutionally banned or heavily restricted in others. In Western Europe this has had the effect at once of both more closely regulating the use of abortion, and at the same time mediating and reducing the impact anti-abortion campaigns have had on the law. France The first specifically anti-abortion organization in France, Laissez-les-vivre-SOS futures mères, was created in 1971 during the debate that was to lead to the Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jér ...
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