News to Know
compiled by tiffany taylor
Issue date: 3/8/06 Section: News
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South Dakota bans nearly all abortions
A legislation banning almost all abortions in South Dakota was signed by South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds on Monday. The law will make it illegal for doctors to perform abortions on women unless it is life-threatening beginning July 1, and will make no exceptions for cases of rape and incest. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups have opposed the bill and plan to challenge the law in the Supreme Court.
Wal-Mart to carry Plan B pill
Wal-Mart officials announced the company will reverse its earlier policy and stock emergency contraception pills in all of its pharmacies starting March 20. The giant retailer could not justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain to not carry the morning-after pill.
FDA to speed new flu vaccines to market
New draft guidelines on ways to speed flu vaccines to the market were published by federal regulators. Health officials worldwide are worried about a pandemic for common winter influenza and the bird flu.
Study: Obesity in youths rising
A study by the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity suggests by the end of the decade the number of overweight children will have increased dramatically. Researchers estimate that nearly half of the children in North and South America will be overweight by 2010. Scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies.
Bush to propose veto
A Bush administration official reported President Bush will send a proposed legislation to Congress that would allow him to control spending by vetoing specific items in larger bills.
Court upholds campus military recruiting
A unanimous vote by the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
UNC graduate in court
A University of North Carolina graduate accused of running down nine people at a campus hangout to avenge the treatment of Muslims was transferred to a courthouse for his first hearing on Monday.
Religious anti-homosexual group
protests at military funerals
A group led by Fred Phelps, a pastor of a Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., has protested more than 100 military funerals because they say the soldiers are fighting for an army that represents a country that accepts homosexuality. They have held up signs saying "Thank God for Dead Soldiers and "Thank God for IEDs." This past Saturday the group targeted Army Sgt. Jesse Davila's funeral. Davila was killed in Iraq on Feb. 20 by a suicide bomber.
A legislation banning almost all abortions in South Dakota was signed by South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds on Monday. The law will make it illegal for doctors to perform abortions on women unless it is life-threatening beginning July 1, and will make no exceptions for cases of rape and incest. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups have opposed the bill and plan to challenge the law in the Supreme Court.
Wal-Mart to carry Plan B pill
Wal-Mart officials announced the company will reverse its earlier policy and stock emergency contraception pills in all of its pharmacies starting March 20. The giant retailer could not justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain to not carry the morning-after pill.
FDA to speed new flu vaccines to market
New draft guidelines on ways to speed flu vaccines to the market were published by federal regulators. Health officials worldwide are worried about a pandemic for common winter influenza and the bird flu.
Study: Obesity in youths rising
A study by the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity suggests by the end of the decade the number of overweight children will have increased dramatically. Researchers estimate that nearly half of the children in North and South America will be overweight by 2010. Scientists expect profound impacts on everything from public health care to economies.
Bush to propose veto
A Bush administration official reported President Bush will send a proposed legislation to Congress that would allow him to control spending by vetoing specific items in larger bills.
Court upholds campus military recruiting
A unanimous vote by the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
UNC graduate in court
A University of North Carolina graduate accused of running down nine people at a campus hangout to avenge the treatment of Muslims was transferred to a courthouse for his first hearing on Monday.
Religious anti-homosexual group
protests at military funerals
A group led by Fred Phelps, a pastor of a Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., has protested more than 100 military funerals because they say the soldiers are fighting for an army that represents a country that accepts homosexuality. They have held up signs saying "Thank God for Dead Soldiers and "Thank God for IEDs." This past Saturday the group targeted Army Sgt. Jesse Davila's funeral. Davila was killed in Iraq on Feb. 20 by a suicide bomber.