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Abortion rights activists protest outside a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a judge intervened in the scheduled abortion of a woman rescued from a prostitution ring. Argentina's Supreme Court ruled Oct. 12, 2012, that the 32-years old woman must be allowed to have the abortion.

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A pro-life activist, right, stands silently amid pro-choice demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court

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Both pro-life and pro-choice activists rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

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Pro-life and pro-choice groups face off in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

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Pro-choice activists, left, argue with pro-life activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 23, 2006

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Pro-choice and pro-life advocates clash outside the Supreme Court in '92

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Outside view of the European Court of Human Rights, Thursday Dec. 16, 2010 in Strasbourg, France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled

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Archbishop Raymond Burke says pro-choice Catholics should be denied Communion and funeral rites

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The body of Dr. George Tiller is removed from the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kans., on May 31, 2009. The attorney for Tiller says the late-term-abortion provider was shot and killed at his church

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown. Eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)

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A anti abortion protestors holds up placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic, the first private clinic to offer abortions to women in Belfast, Northern Ireland on October 18, 2012.

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Pro-life campaigners protest outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Oct. 18, 2012.

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Pro-life supporter Josh Alcorn demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court after the Court upheld the first nationwide ban on a specific abortion procedure, in Washington, April 18, 2007.

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Pro-life activists protest President Barack Obama's visit to Notre Dame University in May, in South Bend, Ind.

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Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, of the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday with eight counts of murder

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A pro-life activist demonstrates outside Trinity University in Washington

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Anti-abortion demonstrators are arrested after refusing to leave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in Washington on Nov. 5, 2009

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Anti-abortion protesters

"Abortion Under State Constitutions" by Paul Benjamin Linton

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Demonstrators hold placards and candles in memory of Indian Savita Halappanavar during a march in support of legislative change on abortion in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 17, 2012.

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Inaugural Protest Pro-Life demonstrators block the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C., two days after the inauguration of President George W. Bush

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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule, March 21, 2012.

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Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule, March 21, 2012.

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Dr. Beverly McMillan, president of Pro-Life Mississippi, left, thanks supporters at a prayer rally in Jackson, Miss., for their support on efforts to get a proposed "personhood" constitutional amendment offered to voters, June 6, 2011.