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December 27, 2001 -- The world's first known abortion-breast cancer settlement has taken place in Australia. News of this settlement comes to light as Australian legislators in Tasmania voted in favor of expanding access to abortion for women. The plaintiff's attorney in the lawsuit, Charles Francis, Queen's Counsel, had cautioned the parliamentarians about the possibility of increased litigation against abortion providers which might occur as a result of expanding abortion rights. "In Victoria, civil claims for negligence from women suing their abortionists are becoming much more common. Doctors haven't warned them and about 10 per cent have serious psychological repercussions," ...

<p>In a move that is shortsighted and tinged with arrogance, right-to-life forces in the Michigan House are trying to punish Planned Parenthood for explaining the legal option of abortion to some women who go to the agency for health care and family planning assistance.</p>

<p>In a move that is shortsighted and tinged with arrogance, right-to-life forces in the Michigan House are trying to punish Planned Parenthood for explaining the legal option of abortion to some women who go to the agency for health care and family planning assistance.</p>

Christians a 'hate group' By: Mannix Porterfield, Staff September 02, 2001 Quietly, behind the scenes, an assistant attorney general has been, for several years, teaching police across West Virginia a course in hate crimes. Even though lawmakers twice in as many years have repulsed efforts to graft "sexual orientation" into West Virginia's so-called hate crime statute, Paul Sheridan covers this controversial aspect in his classrooms. His teaching manual, crafted by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno partly with his input, by definition is "aimed at a law enforcement audience." Much of the manual prepared by President Bill Clinton's attorney general, ...

Here's the picture that pro-abortionists and the media don't want you to see. Picture #2 The tiny hand of a fetus reaches out from a mother's womb to clasp a surgeon's healing finger. It shows a 21-week-old fetus in its mother's womb, about to undergo a spine operation designed to save it from serious brain damage (by the way, at 21 weeks old, this baby could still be legally aborted). The tiny hand in the picture above belongs to a baby which is due to be born on December 28.&nbsp; It was taken during an operation in America recently.&nbsp; ...

Ever since that day of infamy, Sept. 11, we have been bombarded with various news reports and data. We hear how since that day people have returned to church. We hear that action described as a cowardly act of terrorism and how we will hunt them down and hold any and all who aided or sheltered those responsible equally guilty. We praised the police and firefighters as heroes, and rightly so, for their efforts to save lives and recover the dead. We took up donations for the surviving family members of the over 3,000 missing or dead. In light of ...

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Meeting in emergency session, lawmakers in the Australian state of Tasmania have passed a law ending a legal uncertainty that prompted doctors and nurses to refuse to perform abortions for the past few weeks. Both state legislatures were recalled from their Christmas break to debate and vote on a bill aimed at clarifying the legality of abortions, after a medical student complained to police that a 73-year-old, vaguely-worded law was being widely broken. The Parliament took two days to debate changes to the law, which now allows abortions if two doctors agree that a mother's ...

It's all about a little baby whose life was saved even before he was born. The pre-born child's mother was very young – and single. She was a pregnant teenager. Of course, we know now that the conception was Divine. But very early in her pregnancy, only Mary knew the baby was of God. Joseph, her fiancé, at first thought she had become pregnant by another man. Joseph must have been devastated. I'm sure he was both furious and heart-broken at the evident betrayal by the woman he loved. He probably also felt like killing her, which would have been ...

A longtime Planned Parenthood fighter, 71-year-old Fr. Norman Weslin, O.S., is imprisoned at McKean Federal Prison at Bradford, Pa. Fr. Weslin is serving five months in federal prison for "criminal" contempt. His crime? Kneeling in silent prayer on a public sidewalk in full priestly vestments inside a 60-foot "banned free speech and religious expression zone," set up by Judge Richard Acara outside a Buffalo, N.Y., abortion center Please pray for Fr. Weslin, and please take a moment during this Christmas season to write a letter to Fr. Weslin. His address is: Rev. Norman U. Weslin #08149-055, McKean Federal Correctional Institution, ...

<p>When Ishmael Asad Muhammad was born, he weighed about as much as a can of Coke and could fit in his doctor's hand.</p> <p>Doctors at Mission Hospital gave him less than a 5 percent chance of surviving. His twin brother, Jihad Amir, lived only an hour and a half.</p>

Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites Salt Lake City, Utah -- At a recent pro-abortion event in Utah, actress Jane Fonda said pro-life people were hypocrites on many levels. "The whole issue of choice has nothing to do with the fetus," she said. "Have you ever asked yourself why [pro-life people] have so much concern for the egg while it's growing inside a woman, but so little concern for the child once it's born? For anti-abortion activists, it seems life begins at conception and ends at birth." Fonda was the keynote speaker Tuesday night during the annual Utahns for ...

With Bubba out of the White House and no longer able to veto certain bills for awhile now, has there been talk of reintroducing a bill that would outlaw the procedure of partial birth abortions? The idea that while we're fighting terrorism, such a sick ass procedure is still gonig on is a bit paradoxial to say the least. And at any rate it would be a powerful issue for the GOP to run on right before the 02 elections

Movie Review&#0151The Lord of the Rings (Opens Today) 12/19/01 There can be no more fitting tribute to Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring than to apply to it the words with which C. S. Lewis acclaimed the original book when Tolkien first wrote it: “Here are beauties that pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here is a [film] that will break your heart.” In This Article... From the Greatest Book of the CenturyVirtuoso Moviemaking at Every LevelA Fundamentally Religious & Catholic Work From the Greatest Book of the Century J.R.R. Tolkien’s wildly popular epic masterpiece The Lord ...

Abortion: What If Your Girlfriend is Pregnant? December 14, 2001 Browse the Warehouse Dating, Love and SexQueer or QuestioningParents, Family and MentorsFriends and FeelingsGuys' RoomGirls' RoomBirth ControlInfections and DiseasesPregnancyAbortion Quiz Index Chart Index Abortion: What If Your Girlfriend is Pregnant? by Wayne Grinwis Wow. What? Wow. Those are the first words that came to mind when my partner told me that she was pregnant. It can take a while just to deal with the immediate feelings &#151; shock, fear, worry, and amazement. But eventually, you'll have to deal with the question, "Now what?" If you're lucky, you and your ...

What IS Christmas About? 12/10/00 by Brian J. Kopp, DPM &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike still had tears in his eyes. "Dad, what were you so mad about?" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An honest question from an innocent holy child has a way of bringing clarity to an otherwise muddled set of emotions and thoughts. Minutes ago, I had an argument about Christmas gifts with my wife. Sue's parents bought our eight-year-old Mikey one of those new Razor scooters for Christmas. I had heard of all the reports about this hot new Christmas craze, including broken scooters, broken wrists and head injuries. I resisted allowing ...

Source: Priests for Life / E-mail response Abortion Polls: Measuring or Molding Public Opinion? by Father Frank Pavone [Pro-Life Infonet Note: Father Frank Pavone is the cofounder of Priests for Life.] Professor Raymond J. Adamek (Department of Sociology, Kent State University) has done the pro-life movement a great service in his study "Abortion Polls 1965-1998: Designed to Measure or to Mold Public Opinion?" His analysis of major opinion polls on the abortion question during that time frame reveals that, given the way the questions are asked, what is being measured is not the public's opinion about the current abortion laws ...

Hello, I am Brenda Pratt Shafer RN. I am "The Nurse" that witnessed the partial birth abortion procedure. I need your help. I am writing a book titled, "What the Nurse Saw and Heard". I will be telling the world what I saw at the abortion clinic, and the many stories that I have heard from many people. Please help me get the word out to people that I want to hear their story. They can communicate anonymously if they desire. I want to hear from women (and men) if they: Have had an abortion. What effect has it had ...

(The Philippines has one of the highest regional birth rates) One in four women in the Philippines have abortions secretly, according to statistics published by a government agency. Abortions are illegal in the mainly Roman Catholic country, and women with unwanted pregnancies have to go to unlicensed abortion clinics. The study by the Population Commission estimates that more than 80,000 women have ended up in hospital with medical problems as a result. "Due to lack of options, women risk legal and religious condemnation and even permanent disabilities and the possibility of death to commit or seek out abortions," the commission ...

As I write these words, a friend of mine is out on the highway, counting down the hours to the death of his unborn child. Before leaving, he wrote his (now former?) girlfriend a check for half the price of the procedure. He said it made him nauseous. Long years ago, having nowhere to drive (or perhaps the car was in the shop), I did my own countdown in an Eames chair with a bottle of scotch. I do not recall writing a check, or offering, or being asked. The nausea occasionally returns. My friend is a young man, the ...

Dear Colleague, A reporter who is quite familiar with UNFPA and with UNFPA spokesmen says he has never done a story about UNFPA without eventually being lied to. Here is another one. UNFPA commissioned a report that sought to deny the existence of coercive family planning in Peru, programs backed by UNFPA. The report was not to their liking so they buried it and now deny its existence. The report came to light to this week. Spread the word. Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse President Action item: Call or write your national representative and express your concern over UNFPA lies and ...