Tag: Guam

Guam Supreme Court strips right to life from preborn children

By Nancy Flanders According to RNZ, Guam’s Supreme Court has held that a 1990 U.S. territory’s law protecting all preborn children from abortion is a “dead law” because legislation that was approved years later has essentially done away with it. Public Law 20-134 from 1990 states that “every human being begins at conception, and that unborn children have …

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Guam’s in-person requirement for abortions re-instated by 9th Circuit appeals court

By Dave Andrusko Just a few minutes ago, I ran across a story from Reuters that was headlined “US appeals court reinstates Guam in-person abortion counseling law.” Before the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was “a law requiring that women in Guam meet with doctors in person before obtaining abortions,” according to Reuters’ Nate Raymond. …

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Guam wants to expand abortion… but can’t find willing doctors

By Bridget Sielicki The governor of Guam is on a mission to expand abortion access for Guam residents and find an abortionist for the island. While abortion is legal in the predominantly Catholic territory, no doctors have been willing to commit the procedure since the island’s last abortionist retired in 2018. Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrero …

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Guam’s last abortionist retires and no one will take his place

By Claire Chretien GUAM, July 9, 2018 – The U.S. territory of Guam is abortion-free thanks to the retirement of its only abortionist last month. Dr. William Freeman had been the only doctor aborting babies in Guam since 2016. 237 out of the island’s total of 239 abortions in 2017 took place at his “Women’s …

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