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Padraig Reidy: London support for Belarus protests The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Padraig Reidy: Porn filtering in the UK The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Happy holidays from all of us at the Abortion Gang. We’re taking a short blogging break and will be back in January with the same passionate, smart and snarky reproductive justice commentary that you love. You can still find us on twitter and facebook, of course. Abortion Gang

Beginning Jan. 1, the California stem cell agency is expected to start bringing aboard a number of new employees as the 50-person cap on staff is lifted by a new state law. One of those persons is expected to be a special projects coordinator who reports directly to CIRM President Alan Trounson. The post has [...]

We are pleased to publish our FY2010 annual report! The DC Abortion Fund

Pakistan’s Express Tribune today reports that a group of Islamic political parties in Pakistan have called for a general strike on December 31 to protest proposals to repeal the country’s blasphemy laws.  The political parties also plan a mass demonstration in Karachi on January 9. Religion Clause

In America the FDA are seeking an injunction against Colorado Based company Regenerative Sciences LLC and their autologous stem cell application called Regenexx. The debate on this topic is alive and well…read more. ASCC Blogs Stem Cell News Stem Cell Research Pros and Cons

Minority business owners in California want the federal government to investigate whether they’re being shut out of the state’s high-speed rail project because of skin color and to pull its share of the funding from the project. (Source) Minority businesses are getting contracts, but not enough to suit them. Some people call that business; others [...]

You probably know that DCAF is staffed by a team of dedicated volunteers, dozens of people who spend their free time, often hours and hours every week, assisting women and girls who need abortions in getting the emotional and financial support they need. You know DCAF raises thousands of dollars every year to help women in the District, Maryland [...]

Even though democratic, “free” countries like the United States guarantee that the government will not stand in the way of ones’ freedom to establish a religion and practice that religion as they see fit, there are still significant challenges to true religious freedom in practice – ones which the author would submit get overlooked by [...]