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Abortion


They are thus unable to cooperate. With the energy, knowledge and ability that each side has, they could make major reductions in the abortion rate if they were able to collaborate. .
             In the U.S., the pro-life and pro-choice movements are both powerful and active. Pro-life groups are particularly active at the state level and have successfully influenced legislators and governors into creating many laws that restrict abortion. Many of the laws have been ineffectual; they are so broadly worded that they are usually declared unconstitutional shortly after having been signed into law. Those laws which survive are not particularly effective; they often merely have the effect of deflect abortion seekers to nearby states. Approval of the drug RU486 will forever change abortion in America. Doctors will be able to prescribe the pills and women may be able to take the pill at their homes. Rural women will not have to drive long distances to abortion clinics; women will not have to run the gauntlet of abortion protestors. At this time, compromise between pro-life and pro-choice supporters appears to be impossible. .
             In Canada, the pro-life movement has lost most of its funding after some groups adopted a policy of harassing abortion providers' homes and those of their neighbors. During the late 1990's, two Canadian pro-life groups lost their charitable status with Revenue Canada. Attendance at abortion protests now fail to attract large numbers of supporters. The groups now do little more than conduct candlelight vigils, and issue press releases. With the exception of news about a lone, anti-abortion, November 11th assassin, abortion rarely is discussed in the media. The country does not even have a law to regulate abortions. However, with the selection in mid-2000 of Stockwell Day, a Christian Fundamentalist, to head the far-right Alliance Party, Canadian pro-lifer's have been reinvigorated. .
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