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MELBOURNE, Australia, June 5, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A late-term abortion facility and state abortion regulators have agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement after 62 women said the facility did not take proper procedures to prevent them from being infected with Hepatitis C during their operations. Croydon Day Surgery and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority agreed to pay $13.75 million after scores of patients were infected by anesthesiologist James Latham Peters between June 2008 and November 2009.

Reform: The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee wants levies on insurers to pay for ObamaCare and fines for families who don't sign up. We can cut costs and expand coverage without sacrificing freedom.To keep ObamaCare alive, Montana Democrat Max Baucus has proposed a Rube Goldberg scheme of fees and fines on insurers and the uninsured designed to forcibly bring everyone into the loving and protective arms of the nanny state. To help finance his Plan B, Baucus would impose annual fees of $6 billion on health insurers, $4 billion on medical-device makers, $2.3 billion on drug manufacturers and $750...