NEW! Senators Ask Democrats to Support an Amendment Revoking Abortion Industry Funding

NEW! Bully Portuguese Government to Prosecute National Medical Group Over "Illegal" Conscience Policy

LA Times Reporter Admits Inflating Mexico's Illegal Abortion Count

Human Rights Group Files Charges Against Nicaraguan Abortion Lobby

Brazilian Government's National Health Conference Rejects Abortion

UN activities: Week of 12-17November07: Abortion finally openly discussed

Editorial: Fighting for our Rights: Why the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act Should be a No-Brainer

No parental consent required in Alaska

6,400 Signatures Collected to Convene a Grand Jury in KS

Hearing is Set to Appeal PP’s Zoning Approvals

Map of PP sites

Abortionist to Speak at Wayne State U

Cuban Abortion Opponent Receives US Presidential Award (in absentia)

Uruguay Senate Approves Bill Legalizing Abortion, President to Veto

Breast Cancer Link to Abortion   

Women Deliver Conference

Men & Abortion Seminar 28-29 November  

Abortion and the Alan Guttmacher Institute

107-Count Grand Jury Indictment v. PP Leads to Call for Suspension of Tax Funding

AL Health Department Will Inspect Abortion Centers

New York Pregnancy Center's Mobile RV Helps Women Avoid Abortion 

Eugenic Abortion for Minor Problems Criticized by Abortion Provider 

Abortion Parental Consent Laws Also Reduce STDs/STIs 

FDA Documents Show Abortion Drug RU 486 Made in China at Facility Not in Compliance with FDA Safety Requirements...

SENATORS ASK DEMOCRAT SUPPORT FOR AMENDMENT REVOKING ABORTION FUNDING. Several members of the Senate sent a bill to Democratic leaders last week urging them to accept an amendment to a federal spending bill revoking taxpayer funding for abortion businesses.

The lawmakers want Congress to remove hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood et al through the family planning program.

The Senate already defeated an amendment Vitter sponsored last month on the Title X program, but the lawmakers say “we believe recent findings warrant such a suspension pending further investigation.”

PP, which receives more than $300 million in taxpayer funding each year, should lose its federal funding because of the 107 charges a KS county attorney has filed against one of its abortion centers there for performing illegal late-term abortions in violation of state law. It is also accused of falsifying documents and failing to comply with medical reporting requirements.

The letter says: “One of the many reasons to withhold federal funding from groups that promote abortion are these troubling accusations of negligent medical practice…We should not use tax dollars to subsidize abortion [sites] – particularly when there are serious concerns regarding their compliance with state law and medical standards”.

Other members (besides Brownback and Vitter) signing the letter include pro-life Republican Sens. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, John Barrasso and Mike Enzi of Wyoming, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Jon Kyl of Arizona, Trent Lott of Mississippi, Mel Martinez of Florida, Pat Roberts of Kansas and June Thune of South Dakota. [12Nov07, Ertelt, LifeNews.com, DC]






Bully Portuguese Government to Prosecute Doctors Group Over "Illegal" Conscience Policy: Medical Association says "doctors must maintain respect for human life from its beginning".

Since October of this year the Portuguese Medical Association has resisted repeated threats of legal action by the socialist-dominated government for refusing to accept abortion in its code of ethics. Now, the pro-abortion Portuguese Health Minister Antonio Correia de Campos says he he will begin procedures against the organization through the office of the Attorney General.

"The thinking of the Attorney General of the Republic is very clear and establishes that a special administrative action should be carried out to address the illegal nature of some articles in the ethical code of the Medical Association," said Correia de Campos. "And therefore what we are going to do is share with the MP (Justice Department) that the OM (Medical Association) is unwilling to fulfill these dispositions."

Medical Association spokesman Pedro Nunes maintains that the code, which states that "doctors must maintain respect for human life from its beginning", and "the practice of abortion constitutes a grave ethical failure", will not be applied to those who choose to do abortions. However, the Association wishes to maintain the code "as a moral reserve, allowing a space for conscientious objection."

The controversy arises out of the fact that earlier this year Portugal's socialist government decriminalized all abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (see previous LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030901.html). Correia de Campos insists that "Anyone can have his own personal or collective code of ethics, but collective codes of ethics cannot go against the general law of the country," and complains that "the Association absolutely refuses to negotiate its principles."

Although the Medical Association has acknowledged the possibility that its members might change the code at their annual meeting next year, this is not enough for Correia de Campos.

"That's not going to stop the process," he said in a recent interview. "I am going to immediately begin the mechanism (together wtih the Public Ministry), but if the doctors by their own free and spontaneous will, and through the Medical Association, make that decision, the process will no longer have an object. Having conformed to what was requsted and initially rejected, we will all be satisfied and we will all win."

Nunes is unimpressed. "This is a Ministry with so many concerns, which is experiencing enormous financial problems, which is falling apart, and would therefore need the support of all health professionals so that it can function, but is seeking to distract public opinion, sending a message that physicians are ultra-conservatives and that it is impossible to work with them," he said in a recent interview. "The Ministry is making a little game out of public opinion."

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Portuguese Government Orders Doctors to Remove Anti-Abortion Restrictions from Code of Ethicshttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07102203.html
Portugal Offers Free Abortions for Women Followed by Mandatory Education on Contraception
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jun/07062103.html
Portuguese Parliament Approves Abortion - Waiting For Pro-Abortion PM's Signaturehttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030901.html
Portugal Abortion Bill Approved by Legislative Committee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030806.html
Portugal Government Shows Hypocrisy in Abortion Vote Biashttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07021207.html
Socialist Portugal Government to Introduce Abortion Vote January 2007
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06091803.html
Abortion-Pushing Socialists Elected in Portugalhttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022105.html

[22Nov07, By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Portugal, LifeSiteNews.com]
 

Los Angeles Times Reporter Admits Inflating Mexico's Illegal Abortion Count. A Los Angles Times news reporter has admitted that he inflated the number of illegal abortions he reported in a recent news story on Mexico. Hector Tobar reported that 1 million illegal abortions had been occurring there annually before the legislative assembly in Mexico City legalized abortions in the capital city. In an editorial LifeNews.com carried earlier this month,

NewsBusters blogger Dave Pierre challenged Tobar on the assertion. Pierre noted how only 3,400 women have received abortions at 14 of the capital's public hospitals in the six months since lawmakers legalized abortions there.

With 40 percent of Mexicans living in the capital or within a day's drive from it and so few abortions done legally, Pierre said there is no way so many illegal abortions would be done in the nation annually. "The Times and Tobar have some explaining to do," Pierre said at the time. "By grossly inflating the number of illegal abortions and the deaths they caused, the Times has propagated abortion falsehoods yet again."

Tobar has now admitted the numbers are wrong, but his correction didn't come in the way of an article in the newspaper. Instead, he posted a response on the Times' blog. Tobar admits "the 1-million figure appears too high" and acknowledges that there is an "obvious inconsistency" between the number of legal abortions and the illegal abortion claims. [21Nov07, Los Angeles (LifeNews.com]


Human Rights Group Files Charges Against Nicaraguan Abortion Lobby
Involvement of Internationally Connected "Women's Network" in "Rosita" Case Under Fire
The Nicaraguan Pro Human Rights Association (ANPDH) has filed charges against members of the "Women's Network Against Violence", a network of pro-abortion feminist groups, for their role in covering up the rape of a nine year old girl and protecting her victimizer in an attempt to promote "therapeutic abortion" in Nicaragua (see recent coverage at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/nov/07111609.html).

According to the Managuan daily La Prensa, Roberto Petray of ANPDH has accused nine members of the Network of colluding with Francisco Fletes, the stepfather of "Rosita" (as she is referred to by the press to protect her identity), who was raped and impregnated in 2003.

The Network used the pregnancy of Rosita to promote their abortionist agenda in Nicaragua, and in the process helped to cover up the girl's rape by her stepfather, who fled Costa Rican authorities with their aid. With the abortion of Rosita's child and the secretive disposal of its remains that followed, DNA testing could not be done by the Nicaraguan authorities.

The charges filed include omitting required medical procedures for obtaining a "therapeutic abortion" (legal at that time in Nicaragua) and concealing evidence of the rape by secretly disposing of the body of the aborted child.

The organization also states that while the Network was taking care of the family in the years following the abortion, they learned about Fletes' relationship with his stepdaughter and helped to hide the situation.

The charges state: "They gave them housing and furniture, and according to witnesses, neighbors in the area, the women of the Network knew that the girl they knew as 'Rosita' was pregnant and was subject to sexual abuse on the part of her stepfather Francisco Leonardo Fletes Sanchez, a fact that the members of the Network hid."

Despite the conviction of Fletes and their intimate involvement in the case, representatives of the Network still refuse to apologize for their actions. "The Network fulfilled the role that corresponded to it," said a spokeswoman, "which was to save the life of the girl and for us the most important thing in every case is the life of women, of girls, boys and adolescents who are running a risk and if in that momeent that pregnancy meant the coming death of the girl, we believe that there is no reason to be sorry that that situation occurred."

However, the original doctors treating Rosita, as well as a panel of medical experts convoked to examine the case in 2003, denied that she was in mortal danger from the pregnancy. Three anonymous doctors recruited by the Network reportedly disagreed and secretly carried out the abortion in 2003. The Network used the abortion as a "hard case" to press the issue of decriminalizing abortion in Nicaragua. However, the opposite occured, and in 2006 Nicaragua eliminated "therapeutic abortion" from its criminal code, thus criminalizing all abortions except indirect procedures to save a woman's life. The Nicaraguan Congress reaffirmed the law last week, voting to include it in the new criminal code.

Related:Molestation Coverup Proven in Internationally Famous Abortion Case in Nicaraguahttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/nov/07111609.html
Recent three-part series on "Rosita" case:
Part I: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081602.html
Part II: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081603.html
Part III: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07081604.html

Nicaragua Government Moves to Close Legal Loophole Allowing Abortion
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jul/04072705.html

Questions Still Unanswered in Case of Nine-Year-Old Nicaraguan
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/apr/03040404.html

No Charges Laid in Nicaragua Abortion
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/mar/03030411.html

Ipas' Marta Maria Blandon Involved in Abortion Deception
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/070105a.html

Women's Health Journal Interview with Ipas Director Marta Maria Blandon
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Marta+Maria+Blandon+and+Lorna+Norori%3a+%22we+have+successfully...-a0109580675
[19Nov07, MC Hoffman, Managua, LifeSiteNews.com]




Brazilian Government's National Health Conference Rejects Abortion
Vote Seen As Devastating Blow Against Lula Regime's Desire to Legalize Practice
The Brazilian National Health Conference, an arm of the pro-abortion Ministry of Health of the socialist Lula regime, has made headlines across the nation by roundly rejecting the legalization of abortion.

"The Ministry of Health was defeated", summed up the Globe, a nationally recognized newspaper, which attributed the event to the superior organization of Catholic delegates to the conference.

According to Francisco Batista Junior, president of the National Health Council, at least 70% of the participants voted against the proposal, even after it had been watered down with vague language