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Date Sent: 2011-03-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 25, 2011 |
Japan disaster: over 27,000 dead or missing -- Wealth declined for most households during recession
Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor Vessel -- U.S. dollar, usually world’s safe haven, declining despite plenty of global turmoil -- Phoenix police recommend assault charge for Sen. Bundgaard -- Texas find suggests earlier settlers in N. America -- Barclays Is Main Focus of Libor Probe-Report --
Inventor creates incredible flying motorcycle -- Safe-Haven Status
Withers: Dollar Falls Versus Swiss Franc -- Fukushima Raised To Level 6
On INES Scale -- There's A Huge And Bizarre Spike In Futures Happening
Right Now: QE3 Anyone -- IMF Prepares For "Threat To International Monetary System"
-- Strategic Relocation Awaits: Mobile homes hit sales bump -- Arc of
Instability = $200 Oil -- The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months --
White House: Libya fight is not war, it's 'kinetic military action' --
Organized Religion Will Go "Extinct" in Western Countries -- Imax Comes
to China -- Barnes and Noble Can't Find a Buyer -- China's Ghost Cities
-- Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant -- EU Bust-Up Seems Closer As Portuguese Default Looms -- 40% Silver Bags on Sale -- The Treasury Auction Shell Game -- Fukushima Deteriorates Again As Steam Now Rising From Reactor 1 -- ‘Home-grown’ rebellion fights New York smoking ban -- Worried Syrian regime offers promise of change -- Obama is keeping his peace prize
AZ: Publisher of Freedom's Phoenix,
Ernest Hancock, turned 50....wake party tomorrow; "Atlas Shrugged"
the Movie, pt. 1
Premiering in Phoenix, April 15- 22
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. dollar, usually world’s safe haven, declining despite plenty of global turmoil
03-24-2011
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Washington Post
When the world is in turmoil, investors have usually had one automatic response: Put money into dollars, viewed as the global safe harbor. But that’s not happening in this tumultuous year. Even with the Middle East in conflict, Japan in disarray afte
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor Vessel
03-24-2011
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NY Times
Japan’s effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit may have been damaged.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Reserve survey: Wealth declined for most households during recession
03-24-2011
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Washington Post
The Great Recession shook households of every income, with a median 45 percent decline in wealth for the majority of consumers surveyed in a Federal Reserve study released Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix police recommend assault charge for Sen. Bundgaard
03-24-2011
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Arizona Republic
A witness told officers she saw a male trying to pull somebody out of the passenger side of the vehicle. "She said, 'He was beatin' the living crap out of whoever was in the passenger seat'," the report says.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Texas find suggests earlier settlers in N. America
03-24-2011
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AP
The discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years.
Thousands of artifacts dating to between 13,200 and 15,500 years ago were uncovered
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Barclays Is Main Focus of Libor Probe-Report
03-24-2011
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Reuters
Barclays PLC appears to be the main focus of an international regulatory probe into alleged manipulation of LIBOR rates, the benchmark price for interbank borrowing costs, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the investigation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Inventor creates incredible flying motorcycle
03-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
The Switchblade, a flying motorcycle brainstormed into reality by its visionary inventor, Sam Bousfield, may soon take to the skies. Flying cars have been a mainstay of science fiction from the days of Hugo Gernsback and pulp fiction to the Star Wars
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Safe-Haven Status Withers: Dollar Falls Versus Swiss Franc
03-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The Swiss Franc, also a traditional safe-haven currency, has quietly made its way towards successive new records against the US Dollar.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Raised To Level 6 On INES Scale
03-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Fukushima event has been upgraded from Level 5 "Accident with Wider Consequences" to Level 6 "Serious Accident." Only Chernobyl is a Level 7 event. We believe Fukushima should get there within 2 weeks as ever more of the current....
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Meanwhile Afterhours...
03-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears that someone may have called the bluff on our earlier post of a possible commencement of trading in advance of QE3 (and how anyone could be surprised that QE3 is coming is beyond us - it has been our conviction that the Fed...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
There's A Huge And Bizarre Spike In Futures Happening Right Now: QE3 Anyone
03-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This is getting a lot of attention, and nobody is really sure what's up.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
IMF Prepares For "Threat To International Monetary System"
03-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As if the IMF's trillions in open lending facilities were not enough, we now learn that the world lender of last resort is about to activate a "Special Funding Pool" - Dow Jones explains: "The IMF is expected to soon activate a special funding pool..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Strategic Relocation Awaits: Mobile homes hit sales bump
03-24-2011
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mercurynews.com
In 2010, the median sales price paid for an existing mobile home in Alameda County was $40,000, down 53 percent from the $85,000 median paid in 2006, the year before the real estate meltdown began.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Arc of Instability = $200 Oil
03-24-2011
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CNBC.com
Satyajit Das is telling investors that $200 a barrel is a distinct possibility and, over the long term, $500 is feasible.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months
03-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
At its current rate of collapse, the US Dollar will do this within the next 3-4 months. This means the greenback will break into a new all-time lows by 2H11, which will precipitate the coming inflationary collapse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
White House: Libya fight is not war, it's 'kinetic military action'
03-24-2011
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washingtonexaminer.com
In the last few days, Obama administration officials have frequently faced the question: Is the fighting in Libya a war?
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Sierra Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Video
Host:
Ernest Hancock
This weeks news in review
While the focus was on Japans meltdown and Libya getting bomb.... What did you miss that will effect your life?
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
This weeks news in review
While the focus was on Japans meltdown and Libya getting bomb.... What did you miss that will effect your life?
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News Link • Books
What Is Your Plan for the Day After Tomorrow?
03-24-2011
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mises.org
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's masterpiece celebrating capitalism and the individual, is a rare accomplishment.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Organized Religion Will Go "Extinct" in Western Countries
03-24-2011
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slatest.slate.com
Organized religion will go the way of the dinosaurs in nine Western democracies, reports CNN. "Religion will be driven toward extinction" in Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, researchers conclude in a new paper.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • China
Imax Comes to China
03-24-2011
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slatest.slate.com
Imax will open 75 new theaters in China to meet soaring demand for movie entertainment amongst the country's burgeoning middle class, reports the New York Times.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Books
Barnes and Noble Can't Find a Buyer
03-24-2011
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slatest.slate.com
After going on the auction block months ago, book chain Barnes and Noble is expected to step down without finding any potential buyers.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant
03-24-2011
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www.breitbart.com
Countries across the world shunned Japanese food imports Thursday as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
A Recap of Last Night’s Meetup " Why Networking is Key
03-24-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Last night, Simon and his business partner, Matt Smith, had the pleasure of meeting a large group of impressively sovereign men and women during a casual get together at the Jet Hotel in downtown Denver.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Illegal, immoral acts made just
03-24-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Have you ever seen the devastation from a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile? It’s beyond description. Standing in the impact area, it’s as if nothing has ever existed there before.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
EU Bust-Up Seems Closer As Portuguese Default Looms
03-24-2011
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dailybell.com
Let's put this behind us. Thanks for the memories, Socrates. But, heck ... let's not worry. The banks are OK and so is the European Union.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
40% Silver Bags on Sale
03-24-2011
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www.apmex.com
As the price of silver began to increase in the 1960s, the United States government began seeking a more cost-effective alternative to the minting of 90% silver content coins.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
EU, Troubled Titan
03-24-2011
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dailybell.com
The EU must do better. Holding together 20-plus countries in an economic pact is difficult but the alternative (the inevitable, worrisome "anarchy" of separate nation-states) is worse.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Treasury Auction Shell Game
03-24-2011
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dailybell.com
Very few people have either the time or patience to sift through the data released by the Treasury Department in the wake of its bond auctions.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • How To
‘Home-grown’ rebellion fights New York smoking ban
03-24-2011
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RawStory.com
In the midst of an unrelenting battle against smokers and cigarettes, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might be surprised to hear there's a tobacco plantation right under his nose.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Worried Syrian regime offers promise of change
03-24-2011
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hosted.ap.org
The Syrian government pledged Thursday to consider lifting some of the Mideast's most repressive laws in an attempt to stop a week-long uprising in a southern city from spreading and threatening its nearly 50-year rule.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama is keeping his peace prize
03-24-2011
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www.politico.com
President Obama defended his Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, saying that Americans “don’t see any contradiction” in him ordering an attack on Libya to make sure “people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power.”
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News Link • Police State
UPDATE: Hazelwood Crackdown on Girl Scout Cookies
03-24-2011
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stlouis.cbslocal.com
The city of Hazelwood says they do support the Girl Scouts but not when they are violating the home occupancy code.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN Exclusive: Bachmann to form exploratory committee in June, possibly earlier
03-24-2011
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cnn.com
CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Egyptian women protesters beaten, forced to take ‘virginity tests’
03-23-2011
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced ‘virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month.
After arm
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Government
Evening With the Joes - 5:30PM Today
03-24-2011
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wonkette.com
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sharron Angle, Joe The Plumber, Melanie Morgan, Joe Miller, Lloyd Marcus (Singer of National Tea Party Anthem)
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Camerafraud.com calls on Apple to resist government takedown notice
3/24/2011
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camera fraud
The political pressure point at Apple is Scott Forstall, VP of iOS software and recent recipient of a government takedown notice. Yes, you read right: the “land of the free” has so-called elected officials who think they can use the position of their
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News Link • Government
Hoarding called a safety hazard to Valley firefighters
03-24-2011
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azcentral.com
Cluttered homes can worsen battle vs. blaze
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Phoenix Police Officer Fired After Deadly Shooting
03-24-2011
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Officer.com
CBS 5 News has confirmed that Phoenix police Officer Richard Chrisman is being fired.
Chrisman attended a hearing today where the decision was made. He chose not to speak at that hearing.
The Phoenix Police Department released this statemen
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mass. Officers Disciplined After Steroid Probe
03-24-2011
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Officer.com
A probe into illegal steroids has resulted in disciplinary action against two police officers, one of whom works for the Pittsfield Police Department.
Authorities have identified the city officer as David P. Kirchner, a former plainclothes investi
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
Ga. Cop Killing Punctuates Nationwide Trend
03-24-2011
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Officer.com
Hours after the nation's top law enforcement official pledged Tuesday to stem a surge in police killings across the country, an Athens-Clarke County officer was gunned down in the line of duty.
Coming when it did, the shooting death of senior pol
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Ohio bill that would ban most abortions put on hold
03-24-2011
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David Edwards via TheRawStory.com
The House Health Health Committee decided Wednesday to put off voting on the bill that would outlaw abortions after as soon as doctors can detect the first heatbeat of the fetus.
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