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A new Iranian law that raises the prospect of the death penalty for abortion has been condemned by independent human rights experts, who have declared that is in “clear contravention of international law”. In a statement released on Tuesday, the experts called on the Iranian authorities to repeal the ‘Youthful Population and Protection of the Family’ law, which was ratified by Iran’s Guardian Council on the first of November. The law, said the experts, severely restricts access to abortion, contraception, voluntary sterilization services and related information, in direct violation of women’s human rights under international law, and contains a provision...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — REAL News Michiana has confirmed the identity of the woman who offered an undercover reporter and illegal abortion at her home for $500. RNM has confirmed she is 57-year-old Bridget Bridgeforth. RNM was able to confirm her identity through court records that matched her first name and the address she gave. It turns out, Bridgeforth has a history of criminal behavior including possession of illegal drugs. According to court records, Bridgeforth was booked into the Shelby County jail for possession of cocaine, marijuana and paraphernalia in August of 2020. She took a plea deal and was sentenced...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An employee for the Indianapolis based Clinic for Women abortion clinic offered to give an undercover reporter with REAL News Michiana an illegal abortion at her home for $500 on Wednesday. This comes one day after Indiana’s abortion ban went into effect. RNM had multiple phone calls with the employee. All of them were recorded. RNM reporter Clifton French first called the clinic at 3:39pm on Wednesday after being tipped off that the clinic was closing. French posed as an 8-week pregnant transgender man by the name of Randall Fisher attempting to schedule an appointment in the...

UPDATE: The headline in this story has been updated to reflect that Latham did not take the girl for the abortion. It appears her mother took her for the abortion. In September, Allen County Right to Life filed a consumer complaint with the Indiana Medical Licensing Board against the abortionist, Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, in Fort Wayne, because Klopfer performed an abortions on a 13-year-old girl and didn’t report the abuse as required by Indiana Law. The statute is clear that all abortions being done on individuals under 14 years old must be reported to Indiana Child Protective Services and the...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 5, 2007Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group has filed an official complaint against late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller in what is the latest skirmish in the battle to prosecute him for allegedly doing illegal abortions. The group says Tiller and a colleague broke state laws on late-term abortions but also provided women a substandard level of care.The latter complaint is what is most germane for the State Board of Healing Arts, which licenses and oversees physicians in the state.Operation Rescue relied on medical records from Michelle Armesto, a Topeka resident, for its complaint. Armesto testified...

Toronto Sun Columnist Trots out Usual Phony Abortion Slogans in Attack on Catholic Church Silent No More Awareness spokesman dispute columnist's support for Amnesty International By Hilary White TORONTO, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It appears that the campaigners for legalised abortion did their work well back in the 1970's when they invented a set of standard propaganda slogans to be disseminated through the media. For forty years, the same five or six grossly false assertions, familiar to pro-life people everywhere, have manipulated the discussion on abortion and all related issues. These slogans are so solidly entrenched in the public...

A DOCTOR accused of performing an illegal abortion told her receptionist she had "done something silly" when police first turned up at her surgery, a Sydney court was told today. Doctor Suman Sood allegedly made the comment to her receptionist, Joan Chodat, the day after a woman gave birth to a four months premature baby boy. The 20-year-old woman had sought an abortion at Dr Sood's Fairfield clinic, the NSW Supreme Court has been told. On May 20, 2002, Dr Sood allegedly gave her the drug prostaglandin in preparation for a termination. But the woman gave birth the next day...