The Reuters news agency reported in July that Nepali lawmakers are considering a bill to legalize abortion in the small Himalayan kingdom. Sunil Kuman Bhandari of the Napali Congress party introduced the bill July 10. Bhandari is president of the Family Planning Association of Nepal, an affiliate of the London-based International Planned Parenthood Federation. He said the bill would give Napali women [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo – Two Missouri women have launched a medical malpractice suit against a local abortionist who they claim failed to advise them of the risks of abortion. The two women, who obtained abortions in 1994, said a consent form they signed prior to the procedure was false and misleading. They are seeking damages for assault and battery and for the wrongful [...]
U.S. President Bill Clinton’s veto of a ban on partial-birth abortions unleashed a storm of protest from church and pro-life groups. In some of the strongest language directed against the president, critics ranging from the Vatican to the Republican Party described Clinton’s April 10 veto as a brutal attack on human life and as an attempt to win favor with radical pro-abortion [...]
Winifride Prestwich Is there any truth in the claim that abortion was not legally forbidden until the 19th century? -J.S. Nepean No. It is a matter of historic fact that, from the early Middle Ages, English common law (the basis of law in Canada, the U.S. and other English-speaking countries) has forbidden abortion at any stage of human development, and established criminal [...]
Opinion For Canadians, the reality of living side by side with the United States, “mouse to bear” to paraphrase Pierre Trudeau, has produced feelings of impotence and inferiority. To compensate, an illusion of moral superiority has evolved in Canada. Thus many Canadians, while acknowledging overall American dominance, silently feel morally superior. In reality, the current debate over abortion policy in the United [...]
Activists in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal challenge standing injunctions Interim staff It did not take long for the fallout from a controversial B.C. ruling to be felt across the country. In February, Justice E.J. Cronin struck down B.C. legislation which placed a bubble-zone around, abortuaries, barring pro-lifers from picketing, counseling or leafleting. Following this decision, pro-life activist Linda Gibbons challenged a [...]
In August 2004, Judge George Adams of the Ontario Court (General Division) issued a temporary injunction to prohibit sidewalk counselling near abortuaries. He also banned picketing within 500 feet of doctors’ homes. Offices of abortionists were also given a small bubble zone. This ruling will last until the trial. That case was a civil lawsuit where the Government of the Province of [...]
Supreme Court will eventually decide the importance of ruling and its impact across the land. The decision of Judge E.J. Cronin of the Provincial court of British Columbia lights one candle in the darkness of many court decision on the abortion issue. In essence, this Judge has decided that the part of the B.C. law that prohibited all sidewalk counselling and picketing [...]
Pro-life supporters applauded a move by the Louisiana state legislature requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortion the physical and emotional risks of abortion and carrying a child to term. The move is part of the state’s newly restored informed consent law. The law also involved the distribution of the booklet, Abortion, Making a Decision, which features information on fetal development, methods [...]
“It is time for the government of British Columbia to … stop trying to limit peaceful picketing outside abortion clinics.” Globe and Mail editorial, January 26, 1996 We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Now if only Ontario’s attorney general Charles Harnick would apply the same principle to the current injunctions banning pro-life picketing in his province. When Judge E.J. Cronin decided [...]
First pro- life legal win in recent years ends government crackdown and breaths new life into pro-life witnessing. Mike Mastromatteo The interim Pro-life groups across the country are hailing the decision of the B.C. Provincial Court to strike down the Bill 48 (Access to Abortion Services Act), the legislation banning picketing around B.C. abortion clinics. In the January 23 decision, Judge E.J [...]
Urged by pro-abortion advocates, Clinton may veto ban on grisly abortion procedure Pro-lifers on both sides of the border are watching with interest the latest developments in the partial-birth abortion debate in the United States. Late last year, both U.S. Congressional Houses approved the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, a bill outlawing the gruesome abortion procedure. With a partial-birth abortion, the unborn [...]
Urged by pro-abortion advocates, Clinton may veto ban on grisly abortion procedure Pro-lifers on both sides of the border are watching with interest the latest developments in the partial-birth abortion debate in the United States. Late last year, both U.S. Congressional Houses approved the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, a bill outlawing the gruesome abortion procedure. With a partial-birth abortion, the unborn [...]
Vancouver sees the first challenge to very restrictive anti-picketing law It’s not the first time that B.C.’s “prisoner for the Lord” has been in jail. Nor is it likely to be the last. But John Doe, a.k.a. Maurice Lewis is determined to do what he can to test British Columbia’s new draconian “bubble law.” The bubble zone law keeps anyone voicing public [...]
Planned Parenthood tries to join forces with Clinton and the American Medical Association to block bill which would end gruesome abortion practice On November 1, 1995, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to bn the “partial birth” abortion method known as D&X. The method consists of partially delivering a baby feet first, inserting scissors into the baby’s skull and sucking out the [...]