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May 2002
World Briefs
Pope's mom considered abortion
UN workers tie aid to sex favours
DNR orders increase
Single parent family stats released
Philly abortuary closes
Pope's mom considered abortion
ROME - Italian journalists Renzo and Roberto Allegri report in their new book Fatima: The Story Behind the Miracles, that the Pope's mother, Emilia Wojtyla ignored advice to abort her unborn child in 1920 -- the child who would eventually become John Paul II. The Pope's mother was frail in health and after her first child doctors told her not to have any more children. Once she learned she was pregnant again, doctors advised her to abort the child but she refused. The book goes on to say that during her pregnancy "her weakened body was tested almost beyond endurance."
UN workers tie aid to sex favours
MONROVIA - The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Save the Children, UK published an interim report alleging that aid workers in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have been exchanging food for sex. "The secretary of our camp once told me that, if I did not make love to him or give him one of my girls, they would not supply us with food," said Helen Kamara at a refugee camp in Freetown, Sierra Leone. U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan ordered an urgent investigation of the matter.
DNR orders increase
HAMILTON - According to new Canadian research 90 per cent of critically ill patients in intensive care units do not give explicit instructions as to whether they should be revived if their heart stops beating. A study involving 2,916 patients in four countries showed that doctors obtained resuscitation directives for patients within 24 hours of their admission in just 11 per cent of cases. Ways to solve this problem are being discussed.
Single parent family stats released
OTTAWA - In a recent report by the Vanier Institute of the Family says more than two-thirds of single mothers in Canada are now working. Much of the growth is do to provincial welfare policies that force single mothers to look for work. The report also states that single parents are the fastest growing family type, increasing by 23 per cent between 1990 and 2000. One in five of those are single fathers, an increase of 58 per cent in the decade. Separation and divorce are the main reasons for this.
Philly abortuary closes
PHILADELPHIA -The Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women recently closed its doors because of a $300,000 deficit they suffered due to their lack of clients, despite the fact about 1,500 women aborted their babies at the center last year. The abortuary admitted in its Pregnancy Options Workbook, that abortion is painful and is "a kind of killing."
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