The man they call “Dr Death” is a free man. The notorious suicide doctor, Jack Kevorkian, has been released from a Michigan county jail after posting a reduced bail of $100. Kevorkian had earlier refused to post a bail set at $50,000 and had undertaken an 18-day hunger strike to prove his point. Kevorkian, who has been present at 20 suicides, was [...]
“This is Birthright. Can I help you?” These were the opening words of a wonderful speech delivered by Louise Summerhill, daughter of the late Foundress of Birthright—also Louise. It would be almost impossible to calculate the number of times those same words have been repeated over phones since they were first spoken by Louise Summerhill Sr. in a small rented office in [...]
First came the United Nations decade of the woman. Then there was the year of the child. Now the family holds the spotlight as the member countries of the United Nations proclaims year 1994 the Year of the Family. But some people interested in the future of the family are withholding their joy at this recognition by the international body. Long experience [...]
A new law submitted to the Chinese parliament aims to eliminate the “genetically impure” from the country’s population. The ominous new law, which will no doubt gain the government’s rubber-stamp approval, seeks to limit, through abortion and sterilization, new births of “inferior quality.” The drafted legislation states that “pregnant women who have been diagnosed as having certain infectious diseases or an abnormal [...]