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Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 13:53 in
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Poles Favour Life – On January 20, the Polish Senate approved a bill that would limit abortion though not ban it altogether. The bill, which has already been passed by the lower house, only needs ratification from President Lech Walesa. Most observers feel that the pro-life president will approve it immediately. The law, which is by no means pro-life, would allow abortion in cases where the life of the mother is threatened, the baby is deformed or the pregnancy is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Mar, 1993 at 13:11 in
Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture, World Briefs | Author:
Paul Dodds Now that the Republicans George Bush and Ronald Regan have both moved out of the White House and into the history books, it’s time for pro-lifers to assess their administrations.
Under both men, federal government spending on abortion was curtailed. The armed forces, third world relief agencies and medical clinics were prevented from using federal funds to promote or provide abortion. For that we should be grateful. But, funding issues are not the heart of the abortion battle.
In the United States, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Feb, 1993 at 15:08 in
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POLAND – Legislators in Poland have watered down a bill which would have greatly cut the 500,000 abortions Polish women have every year.
The bill backed by the Roman Catholic Church, would have given the country the most pro-life law in Europe. The amended law allows exceptions in the case of deformity of child, if the woman’s life is in danger, if the pregnancy results from a crime. The bill provides for two year jail terms for doctors providing illegal abortions
Abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jul, 1991 at 11:22 in
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Interim Staff CONDOM USE AND FAILURE
The following letter to the editor appeared in the October 20, 1990 issue of Great Britain’s leading medical journal, The Lancet.
I was surprised that in your Sept. 22 note “A good fit?” you reproduce the London Rubber Company’s statement that “most condom failure is due to incorrect usage”, without exercising the same critical evaluation that applies to the rest of your journal. We have shown that 52 per cent of those who had obtained condoms from our ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 1991 at 11:48 in
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Interim Staff New York. Contrary to the wishes of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers, New York major David Dinkins allowed a contingent of militant homosexuals to march in the March 17 parade. His honor was showered with epithets, jeers, and boos.
Dinkins is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual; he had the ‘Gay Men’s Chorus’ sing at his own inauguration ceremonies as New York’s first black mayor.
Under his guidance New York City passed legislation prohibiting city employers and private businesses from exercising freedom of choice ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Sep, 1990 at 8:52 in
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Europe, Strasbourg
On March 12, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for the legalization of abortion throughout Europe. It was adopted by a vote of 146 to 60.
A similar resolution was passed in 1982. At the moment resolutions such as these have no binding force on the members of the European Community, but they do exert pressure on parliamentarians in general. They may also become precedent setting if eve the European parliament acquires wider powers.
Great ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Nov, 1989 at 8:00 in
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Stockholm
Stockholm’s Karolinska Hospital has announced it will test abortion pill RU-486 on 30 women for six months to establish whether a single monthly dose could prevent pregnancy.
RU-486 is made by Roussel-Uclaf of France.
Florida, U.S.A.
A strong pro-life advocate, Ileana Ros Lehtinen, defeated a strong pro-abortion candidate, Gerald Richmond, August 29 to gain the Florida seat in the U.S. House of Representatives of the late Claude Pepper, Democrat. Abortion was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 1989 at 7:43 in
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Interim Staff In the Washington Post (Feb. 26. 1989), Dr. Blake Kerr reported on China’s program of coerced abortion, sterilization and infanticide in Tibet. Dr. Kerr was in Tibet during the fall 1987 to help organize a U.S.-Tibet medical expedition.
While there he met a woman who said that her baby had been killed by a lethal injection and that she herself had been sterilized against her will at Lhasa’s People’s Hospital. Kerr was haunted by her story.
Last fall he visited Tibetan exile ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 1988 at 7:21 in
Abortion, World Briefs | Author:
Sabina McLuhan
A recent political skirmish over late abortions in Britain brought out some attitudes that Canadian pro-life people can expect to face as our own battle continues. The British battle was over a private members’ bill, sponsored by backbench Liberal David Alton, which sought to reduce the upper-age limit for abortion from 28 weeks to 18.
Abortion legislation based on gestational-age limits reflects the belief that a society’s interest in protecting the pre-born child only becomes compelling at ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 1988 at 7:21 in
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The Abortion (Amendment Bill, designed to reduce the time limit for a legal abortion in Britain from 28 weeks to 18, was defeated in the in the House of Commons on May 6. The private member’s bill was “talked out” by its opponents.
For the second time pro-abortionists have prevented a free debate in the H of C and once again Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to provide extra time for voting on the bill despite a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Oct, 1987 at 7:34 in
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The United Nations: The International Right To Life Federation has been granted Observer Status as a Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.) by the United National Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The ECOSOC is very active in forming and implementing population-control programmes throughout the world – particularly in the Third World – through its Population Division and the United Nations’ Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).
The International Right to Life Federation felt it would be “past due that a voice on behalf ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jul, 1986 at 8:41 in
Abortion, Population, Society & Culture, World Briefs | Author:
Steven Mosher
Steven Mosher was one of the first American scholars allowed to study in China when the U.S. government established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic in 1979. He was the only academic permitted to live in a Southern China village for a year to study the lives of the rural Chinese.
His discoveries and observations are published below, taken from an edited transcript of a speech Mr. Mosher gave at the Human Life International Symposium on Sexuality in Montreal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 May, 1986 at 7:18 in
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Moscow. Authorities are worried that the more than 10 million annual abortions have had unwelcome effects on women’s health.
Medical demographer, A. A. Popov said: “The current abortion rate is a major factor in determining the incidence of gynecological diseases and childless marriages, infant mortality, miscarriages and child morbidity. Lowering the abortion rate would have a colossal effect on public health.”
There are more than two abortions for every live birth in the Soviet Union. Abortion clinics are state ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 1986 at 13:25 in
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London – Nurses should notify police, said a British Catholic Bishops’ committee on bio-ethical issues, when they find handicapped newborn babies being sedated or starved to death. The Bishops referred specifically to babies born with spina bifida who were being refused surgery. If the hospital authorities refuse to rectify such a state of affairs, then a nurse has no alternative but to report to the police, the committee said.
Brazil – A mother’s second thoughts about selling her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Jan, 1986 at 14:10 in
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Interim Staff
New York - Feminist Betty Friedan believes that the feminist movement is suffering from paralysis. In a recent New York Times Magazine article excerpted in the Toronto Star (November 7, 1985), she demanded a re-commitment to the original aims.
Among the ten focal points of the movement’s “second stage” – Friedman calls it – are pornography and abortion. Feminists, she says should stop worrying about pornography because to oppose pornography is to play into the hands of “the ... (Continue reading)
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