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France: January 21 International March for Life Expected to Draw 10,000 Participants. The Federation of Organizations in the Defense of Life is anticipating at least 10,000 participants for the 2007 March for Life scheduled for Paris January 21, with pro-life groups from several European countries expected to attend again this year. Pro-life delegations from Spain, Belgium, Germany and Italy have been invited to participate--organizers have emphasized the need to build greater unity among branches of the pro-life movement.  “Thousands of people participated in the great march for life in 2005 and 2006. This year, it’s going to be even more numerous!” organizers said in a press release yesterday.
“If you can come to Paris on that day, we will be delighted to meet you and introduce you to the crowd! We must unite and build a pro-life network here in Europe if we want to influence European decision making!”
As well, the organizers are asking pro-life supporters who are unable to attend to send written declarations of support. March organizers spoke out on the ever-increasing death toll of abortion in the nation, saying, “here in France, 220,000 children are murdered each year through abortion. And more than 7 million people have been killed since the legalization of abortion in the country.” Abortion in France “has consequences for demographic aging, the closing of maternity homes and schools and the problem of pensions for retirees,” the statement said, as well as leading to the breakdown of the family and the devaluing of the human person. This will be the third year the March for Life has been held in Paris, following previous marches held in 2005 and 2006. Ten thousand participants, among them large numbers of young people, joined the march last year. Youth from Spain, Belgium and Germany were well represented at the demonstration.
The march, which will coincide with the annual U.S. March for Life held in Washington on Jan. 22, has particular significance this year as France heads towards a presidential election in April . Life issues are expected to be a key playing point in candidates’ platforms, CNA reported yesterday.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
March for Life Fever Catching on in France
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06012407.html [By Gudrun Schultz
PARIS, France, January 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com] 

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ABORTIONIST PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO KILLING HIS WIFE, RAPING PATIENT. A Mississippi abortion practitioner has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed his wife 10 years ago and raped a patient five years before that. The charges are the latest problems associated with Malachy DeHenre, the 56 year-old man who lost his medical license because of botched abortions.
Six years ago a jury failed to convict DeHenre in the shooting death of his wife Dr. Nyasha DeHenre. A gunshot to the head while she was in the couple's home resulted in her death.

However, a jury in 1999 voted 11-1 to acquit him, resulting in a hung jury that allowed DeHenre to go free.

Local authorities have filed new indictments in the case saying they have more evidence to prove DeHenre's guilt. They also filed a second charge accusing the abortion practitioner of raping a patient in 1992.

Assistant District Attorney Ronald Parrish told the Hattiesburg American newspaper, "I don't want to discuss what evidence we have, but it resulted in these indictments."

According to the paper, on Thursday, Jones County Circuit Judge Billy Joe Landrum said DeHenre would be held in the Jones County Adult Detention Center without bail until a preliminary hearing on the new charges.

Parrish said he opposed bond for DeHenre because both charges carry life sentences and because he is not a citizen of the United States. He is from Nigeria but has applied for citizenship.

Defense attorney David Ratcliff said DeHenre is not a flight risk.

DeHenre's New Woman Medical Center abortion facility in Jackson closed last year and was required, in December 2005 to pay substantial damages to a woman who was injured in a failed abortion in 2003.

Circuit Judge Winston Kidd awarded Latosha Travis $500,000 in damages after the abortion center failed to respond to her lawsuit. Dehenre and the abortion business were defendants in the suit.

Dehenre closed the abortion business in August 2004 and, in March 2005, the Mississippi state medial board suspended his medical license over botched abortions.

In one case, a woman died 18 hours after having an abortion. The women involved in three other cases had to have hysterectomies to stop massive hemorrhaging from uterine perforations, including Travis.

Travis, who was 20 years old at the time and living in Jackson, paid Dehenre $680 for the abortion, the lawsuit said. She had at least one child already and though she planned to have more children in the future, she was devastated to have the hysterectomy because of the failed abortion.

In the case involving a death, Dehenre admitted he should have met the patient at the hospital or relayed medical information to the doctor who treated her. [Ertelt, LifeNews.com December 15, 2006, Laurel, MS]

NP ACCUSED OF HANDING OUT ABORTION DRUG: Woman could face jail term if convicted in Alabama prosecution. A nurse practitioner whose license was suspended by the state of Alabama earlier after she was accused of illegally giving medical abortions (RU486/Mifeprex & Misoprostol) without a doctor's supervision at Summit Medical Center in Birmingham, AL, now is facing the possibility of time in jail and fines if convicted on three specific counts. Janet F. Onthank King, 58, whose license was suspended along with that of abortionist Deborah Lyn Levich early in 2006, has been arrested by authorities in Jefferson County, Ala., on two counts of "knowingly or recklessly performing abortions as a non-physician." According to state Attorney General Troy King, the woman also faces one count of falsifying business records at Summit Medical Center by fabricating entries about the sterilization of medical "equipment." Authorities say she faces up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000 on each count. The abortion business itself was shut down when its license was suspended by the state Department of Public Health in May, and closed permanently in June; bankruptcy court proceedings are underway, officials said. State prosecutors said they presented evidence to a Jefferson County grand jury on November 15, resulting in three indictments returned against the woman. The charges stem from the death last February of an unborn baby whose mother was given the abortion chemical RU-486 at the business.
State prosecutors launched their investigation after the state board released a report that found "egregious lapses in care, including non-physicians performing abortions, severely underestimating the gestational age of a fetus, failure to appropriately refer or treat a patient with a dangerously elevated blood pressure, and performing an abortion on a late-term pregnancy." The child, only a few weeks from birth, was delivered, dead, about a week after the mother was given the chemicals, authorities said. Reports say the woman went to the abortion business on Feb. 20, and was given an ultrasound by a non-physician in violation of state law. She was told she was six weeks pregnant, critics charged.  "Non-physicians" then gave her the chemicals, and six days later the woman delivered a six-pound, four-ounce baby – dead.  "We thank ...the State of Alabama for taking meaningful steps to protect the public from this shoddy abortionist," said Troy Newman [president, Operation Rescue]. "All too often states cover up (these) crimes."  "We know that unsafe conditions and an arrogant 'above the law' attitude are pervasive in the abortion industry, which cares more for the financial profits than for the welfare of the women they exploit," Newman said. "[Hopefully] other states would follow Alabama's example and launch honest investigations into abortionists and their 'chop shops' that are operating outside the law."
"In my 26 years of pro-life work in Birmingham, I know scores of injured women and four who died soon after receiving the services of area abortion clinics," said pro-life activist Jim Pinto. "This just goes to show that abortion mills will lie, falsify records, give abortions without doctors, botch abortions, and never think they will ever be held accountable, and unfortunately that is the case in many states," said Newman.
OR just recently argued that an abortion business in Huntsville, Ala., should be closed down after the state Health Department cited the location for violating 10 state laws. Officials reported the Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives was found to have been forwarding after-hours medical emergencies to non-medical personnel, routinely failing to document the gestational age of the unborn baby, and releasing abortion patients without following the mandatory 20-minute recovery period, according to a statement from Operation Rescue. At this time, the Huntsville business is not on probation. Three of the nine remaining licensed Alabama abortion centers - one in Birmingham and two in Montgomery - are on probation. [12December06 WorldNetDaily.com]

MISCARRIAGE LINKED TO OUT OF WEDLOCK PREGNANCIES, ABORTION, ARTIFICIAL PROCREATION. A new study to be released in the upcoming January 2007 issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but made available online in a pre-release on the journal website, shows that abortion, artificial procreation, and those achieved out of wedlock are linked to increased miscarriage rates.
Researcher Noreen Maconochie and her team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found a 60% increased risk of miscarriage associated with previous abortion.
The study surveyed over 12,000 women.  Researchers questioned 6,300 women aged 18-55 years whose most recent pregnancy had ended in first trimester miscarriage and compared them to 6116 women aged 18-55 years whose most recent pregnancy had progressed beyond 12 weeks.
Artificial procreation or "assisted conception", non-married status and changing sexual partners also were found to significantly increase the risk of miscarriage.
Nausea during early pregnancy appears to be beneficial in terms of avoiding miscarriage and the study also found that vitamin supplementation and eating fresh fruits and vegetables daily were associated with reduced risk.
The authors found the association of miscarriage with abortion "noteworthy" and recommended further work to confirm the finding.
Abstract: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0528...
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Abortion Raises Risk of Miscarriage of Subsequent Pregnancy 60 Percent. A team of British doctors has released the results of a new study showing that women who have an abortion run a higher risk of having a miscarriage in a subsequent pregnancy. The study also showed that women using in-vitro fertilization have higher miscarriage risks as well.
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