Abortion Law
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Written on 29 May, 2005 at 13:40 in
Abortion Law | Author:
LifeSiteNews.com
Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party has won support for a bid to hold a national referendum on abortion.
In the February election, the Socialist party ran on a platform that included a promise to conduct a national referendum to overturn the country’s official prohibition on abortion.
Socialists hold ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:22 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Pro-Life | Author:
•President George W. Bush announced plans to enact stricter limits on embryonic research.
•Congress will likely consider the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act later this year. If it is passed, the bill would ensure that parents have a right to know their teenage daughters are considering an abortion and make ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:10 in
Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Hilary White
Hilary White
Special to The Interim
The in-vitro fertilization industry is worried that a Chicago court decision, in which an embryo was ruled to be a human being, could put an end to IVF and abortion. On Friday, Feb. 4, Cook County Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ruled that a couple’s wrongful death ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2005 at 17:52 in
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Feds investigating provinces'
abortion funding
LifeSiteNews.com
Special to The Interim
Health Canada is investigating all Canadian provinces for supposed breaches of the Canada Health Act by allowing patients to pay for services at private medical clinics. The government agency forbids individuals from being charged a fee to obtain what Health Canada considers any ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2005 at 17:47 in
Abortion, Abortion Law | Author:
John-Henry Westen
John-Henry Westen
Special to The Interim
The February 2005 issue of Consumer Reports focuses on birth control methods. In addition to grading the effectiveness of condoms, the report also addresses the birth control pill. However, in mentioning how the pill works, the consumer advocacy organization fails to mention the abortifacient ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Mar, 2005 at 17:39 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Equal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff
Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a "gross violation" of women's rights.
In a class-action suit filed in 2001, two women who had undergone ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2005 at 8:37 in
Abortion, Abortion Law | Author:
LifeSiteNews.com
Special to The Interim
Health Canada is investigating all Canadian provinces for supposed breaches of the Canada Health Act by allowing patients to pay for services at private medical clinics. The government agency forbids individuals from being charged a fee to obtain what Health Canada considers any ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2005 at 8:01 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Human rights | Author:
Interim Staff
Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a "gross violation" of women's rights.
In a class-action suit filed in 2001, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 2005 at 8:25 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Bits n' Pieces, Pro-Life | Author:
Montana lawmaker Roger Koopman is sponsoring a bill that would provide death certificates for aborted babies. He said it as "a small way for our society to acknowledge that a life did exist, even if they didn't get to see a sunrise or blow out a birthday candle." The Billings Gazette reports that pro-abortion critics are calling the measure "mean-spirited" … The U.S. Justice Department has begun an appeal against a ruling ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 2005 at 8:07 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author:
John-Henry Westen
John-Henry Westen
Special to The Interim
The population control arm of the United Nations, UNFPA, and its abortion-pushing allies, most notably International Planned Parenthood, relentlessly press for legalizing abortion with the claim that it is needed to reduce maternal mortality by reducing "unsafe" abortions, particularly in the Developing World. However, Jeanne Head, R.N., the chief pro-life lobbyist at the United Nations, and herself a former labor and delivery nurse says the reality ... (Continue reading)
Canada
1. Bill C-6 passes
The government's reproductive and experimental technologies bill will lead to the deaths of untold millions of tiny human beings through destructive embryonic stem cell research and opens to the door to human cloning through poor definitions and loop-holes.
2. Social conservatism and the Canadian election
Prime Minister Paul Martin and his media accomplices inject the topic of abortion into the federal election, although everyone carefully avoids ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2004 at 13:24 in
Abortion Law, Activism | Author:
Interim Staff
In a rare pro-life court victory, the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench has ruled that displays of graphic photos of aborted children are "legitimate participation in an important political and social debate in Canada."
Saskatchewan activist Bill Whatcott, and members ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Dec, 2004 at 9:05 in
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Voters in Florida passed a constitutional amendment permitting the state legislature to approve a bill that would require abortion facility staff to notify parents of teenage girls considering abortion. The amendment won 65 per cent to 35.
Twice the Supreme Court of Florida over-rode parental involvement laws claiming it ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Nov, 2004 at 14:43 in
Abortion Law, Editorials | Author:
In a Sept. 27 feature on feminism entitled "25 years of women making progress," Toronto Star "Life writer" Trish Crawford made a common, but egregious, error when she paraphrased former National Action Committee on the Status of Women president Judy Rebick as saying "the legalization of abortion may not have been the most important milestone for women, but it is the one that feminists hold most dear." Crawford treated as a fact the claim that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Oct, 2004 at 12:10 in
Abortion, Abortion Law | Author:
Interim Staff
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a motion by Norma McCorvey, known to legal history as "Roe" of Roe v. Wade infamy, to overturn the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in America. More than 5,000 pages of evidence including affidavits from more than 1,000 women damaged by abortion were submitted by McCorvey who said that Roe should be reconsidered in light ... (Continue reading)
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